Hi,
I've been using this plugin to minify my css and js files and it works great so far.
I had a few questions about it:
- Does W3TC have auto versioning of css or js files? When i make new changes to my css files and upload them to the server, i empty all the caches and still don't see the changes immediately on the live website. Only when i refresh the site manually will it download the new changes. This is undesirable for multiple reasons. Every time i make a noticeable change in the php code and the matching css styles are missing, the website appears broken, until the new changes are downloaded. I have set the cache expiry to 6 hours, but that is still too long. I've read that the way to overcome this is auto versioning of the files. So something like /style.css?ver=3.4 should now force the user to download the latest version of the stylesheet.
How do i enforce this using W3TC
- ? Also, i notice the cache directory is always /wp-content/cache/000000/<some number>, no matter how many times i empty the cache. I would have expected the numbers to change over time in some way. I have set the minify cache type to memcached. I wanted to double check that the files are still being served from the location given above, or does memcached have a different cache directory it serves from. For some odd reason, when i emptied my caches and checked my server directory, those files were never cleared. I tried it multiple times with no effect.
Thank you for your time!
Rohith