Template Module Caching

12 Jul 2008

My personal blog seemed to take forever to rebuild, 9 minutes plus for a blog with under 500 entries. Initially I thought it had something to do with the number of plugins I have installed: 49 when you include MT's preinstalled plugins.

Today I tried module caching with some widgets and module templates. Recent Comments, Category Archives and Monthly Archives are cached until a specific event occurs, like when a new entry, comment or category is created. The Banner Footer is cached for a 30-day period. There's nothing in there that changes dynamically so it's safe to set a time limit. Comments will be cached until a new comment is created.

So far, so good. The caches I've set are very basic with no PHP includes but the improvement in rebuild times is dramatic. I've shaved 4 minutes off and now can rebuild the site in just over 5 minutes.

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Posted by Toni on Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 11:44 AM | 0 TrackBacks

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