Oct 18

If you use protected posts on your WordPress blog you may have noticed that WP-Cache doesn’t cache those password protected posts properly. I didn’t know this, but James Farmer did so I went looking and found a fix.

In the plugins/wp-cache/ directory, open wp-cache-phase1.php in your favourite text editor and look for the following line:

if (preg_match(“/^wordpress|^comment_author_email_/”, $key)) {

Replace that line with this one:

if (preg_match(“/^wp-postpass|^wordpress|^comment_author_email_/”, $key)) {

Save and upload the file if necessary and clear your cache. Password protect posts should be cached properly now!

Ironically, this post wasn’t being cached by WP-Cache because the url contains the string “wp-”. Here’s how to fix that bug. Open wp-cache-phase2.php and look for the following line:

if (strlen($expr) > 0 && strstr($uri, $expr))

Change it to read:

if (strlen($expr) > 0 && substr( $uri, 1, strlen($expr) ) == $expr )

Phew. This post is now cached.

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16 Responses to “Howto: WP-Cache and protected posts”

  1. sir.peterson says:

    Thank you for the tip. I’ll try it out.

  2. Mushu says:

    Hi! I use Wp-Cache and some posts are password protected and this fixed really worked! I applied both of them, to phrase 1 and 2.

    Thanks.

  3. Sean says:

    What version of WP-Cache are you running? There was a 2.1.2 release a couple weeks ago, so just wondering if that was the version you did this fix too.

    If so, it might also be good measure to let the plugin author know about your wonderful fix.

    Thanks for the information… I’m now off to fix mine :)

  4. Donncha says:

    Sean – it’s for version 2.1.2, I will be contacting Ricardo, although he says he wants to pass the baton on because he doesn’t have much time to maintain wp-cache any more unfortunately.

  5. Adam Kayce : Monk At Work says:

    That totally broke my site.

    I tried changing it back, and it broke even worse… so I re-downloaded the original, uploaded it, and my site is back.

    Caveat emptor.

  6. Donncha says:

    Adam – did you check your error log? Anything obvious there? The small changes above shouldn’t cause your site to die. Sounds like a syntax error!

  7. James says:

    I don’t know what you’ve got happening on your blog here but your single page posts are missing the background making them impossible to read.

  8. Donncha says:

    James – thanks, I saw that happen once but couldn’t repeat it and there wasn’t an error in my error log. Not sure what causes that.

  9. Mushu says:

    @Adam and Donncha:

    Donnacha: Thanks for your nice modification, some of my friends have said they can now visit the pages with WP-Cache on (2.1.2 version).

    Adam: Have you’ve cleared the cached pages and expired pages?

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  11. Doniek says:

    Thanks James. I have this problem.

  12. Donncha says:

    Just found a bug with the second modification – if your blog isn’t installed in the root of your server then it’ll never return true. The solution probably is to add all the wp-* files that in the index directory of your install. That’ll be files like wp-cron.php, wp-login.php, etc. Or don’t use “wp-” in your posts :)

  13. Lloyd Budd says:

    How important can it really be to cache protected posts? ;-)

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  15. www.anhblog.net says:

    How i can control time out on Cache, i always meet time wait so long to it automatic clear old cache. Customer feel sad

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