My webhost is on a LiteSpeed server and I am using the LiteSpeed plugin to connect to CloudFlare via the API. CloudFlare is working great and it is NOT caching the forum so that is great! However, on my homepage I have a widget to show the 5 newest WPForo Forum post and that is the issue.
I find it is not updating. I created a "test" post in a forum, you can see in this picture inorder to get the new post to show in the widget I had to clear the cache for the homepage to get it to show, as you see in the attached photo. I have since deleted that "test" post and created another new one called "General Test" and that new one is not showing. It is still showing the now nonexsistant test post, again as you see in the photo.
I don't want to have to manually clear my front page cache to get it to reflect the correct post information in the widget. I have tried all the "suggestions" on google search to get CloudFlare to update the front page cache on each page load or even every 60 seconds and those don't work.
Now I am reaching out here to see if there is any workaround/fix?
Thank you.
Hi @palkat,
I'm sorry but wpForo has no control over the home page cache. The cache providers should have section based cache control, so the sidebar should not be cached, or you may consider exclude the home page from the cache. In any case the solution should be provided by LiteSpeed Cache plugin.
Thanks for getting back to me. Figured it out, in the LiteSpeed plugin under exceptions all I have to do is put the path of "\$". \ for the root url and $ to only not cache that url and continue caching the sub folders/files.
That immediatelyfixed my issue and the widget for WPForo started instantly updating again on all pages including landing page.