The latest Litespeed cache version has an ESI feature where can prevent widgets from being cached.

https://blog.litespeedtech.com/2017/09/06/wpw-esi-and-litespeed-cache/

The ESI feature together with excluding the /forums wpforo pages now allows cached wordpress pages without impacting wpforo forum and widgets.

Posted by: Anonymous20

The yesterday's LiteSpeed Cache plugin for Wordpress has included support for wpForo plugin. Seems to work fine for me, updating wpForo listings and forum base page when something is added/updated.

Just FYI.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/litespeed-cache/

Hi @anonymous20,

I know this is an old post, but my webhost has LiteSpeed cache, and I now have it installed as a result. I've not been able to consolidate JS files though as this seems to break wpForo (and TinyMCE as it's loaded in the same page). Everything else seems to work fine. Would you mind sharing your exclusion settings ? I've excluded the "community" page ("Alliance" in my case).

Thanks

Hello, i would be glad to help but i don't use it anymore. Created some problems and while it was MUCH faster that the rest, i switched back to my old and trusted Comet Cache. And i sleep at night.

@anonymous20 Can you help me understand something, I suspect I'm being dim. I don't run any caching whatsoever and am wondering if I should.

I can see how a cache would benefit a wordpress site with fairly static content but I cannot get my head around how it would work with a busy forum whose content is potentially, rapidly updating minute by minute.

As this is possibly digressing the thread a pm would suffice. 

Posted by: cmw14

@anonymous20 Can you help me understand something, I suspect I'm being dim. I don't run any caching whatsoever and am wondering if I should.

I can see how a cache would benefit a wordpress site with fairly static content but I cannot get my head around how it would work with a busy forum whose content is potentially, rapidly updating minute by minute.

As this is possibly digressing the thread a pm would suffice. 

 

Of cource you shoul. I would HIGHLY suggest Comet Cache, install it, enable it, set the cleanup of files once per day and duration of files one month (you will never reach that actually since the caching auto-clears in several occasions).

There are many caching methods. I'm talking about php caching plugins that create Static html pages for most of your dynamic content (blog posts or pages etc).

You say "forum" but wpForo has their own caching so wpforo "base page" should be excluded from caching urls.

What that kind of caching does is speeding up greatly Wordpress installations. Also helps tremendously not to exceed your server/plan limitations, like Entry Processes (EP) for php and DB connections. Because when a static page is served from the cache, almost NO php and DB is involved. I say almost because there are two ways to do that, serve a page via PHP or via your .htaccess mod_rewrite.

Feel ABSOLUTELY free to ask anything. I will reply if i know the answer !!!!

😎

See an example from my site: Created in 2.5 secs and then served from the cache in 0.01615 secs

<!-- *´¨)
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     (¸.•´ (¸.•` ¤ Comet Cache is Fully Functional ¤ ´¨) -->

<!-- Cache File Version Salt:       n/a -->

<!-- Cache File URL:                 https://www.zzzzz.eu/  -->
<!-- Cache File Path:               /cache/comet-cache/cache/https/www-zzzzz-eu/index.html -->

<!-- Cache File Generated Via:      HTTP request -->
<!-- Cache File Generated On:       Mar 31st, 2018 @ 9:34 am UTC -->
<!-- Cache File Generated In:       2.58956 seconds -->

<!-- Cache File Expires On:         Apr 28th, 2018 @ 9:34 am UTC -->
<!-- Cache File Auto-Rebuild On:    Apr 28th, 2018 @ 9:34 am UTC -->

<!-- Loaded via Cache On:    Mar 31st, 2018 @ 10:57 pm UTC -->
<!-- Loaded via Cache In:    0.01631 seconds -->