aks_cache

Partial caching web pages in Textpattern

Summary

Caching all inside <txp:aks_cache id="unique block id"> Any content with TxP tags </txp:aks_cache>

Good practice:

• Cache some menu elements; recent articles list; last added articles list; any popular lists.
• Cache cloud tags
• Cache site main page or cache some ‘slow’ pages with many TXP tags.
• Cache output some slow or difficult tags.

Bad practice:

• Cache static content without TxP(or php include) tags
• Full cache every page
• Cache static body every page

Installation

1. Install this plugin.
2. Go to Extension / aks_cache Tab

Admin interface

Changelog

v0.2
First public release

v0.2.1
Extend admin tab

v0.2.3
Added option: “Reset cache if site was updated”

v0.2.4
Added option: “Disable cache for admin”

v0.2.5
Added attribute block

v0.2.6
Added attribute disable
Added tag <txp:aks_cache_disable />

v0.2.7
Added option: “Disable cache for users”

v0.2.8
Added attribute form

Tags

<txp:aks_cache> – Uses in page templates, forms, articles.

attributes	default	sample	description
id	["REQUEST_URI"]	‘’	Unique ID for each cache block
block	‘’	‘’	for using without id attribute
hour	0	‘’	Cache time = hour*60+min
min	0	‘’	—//—
noreset	0	1	No reset cache for this block – ignore option “Reset cache if site was updated”
disable	0	1	Disable cache
form	‘’	'my_form'	Used in single tag. Caching TxP form
debug	0	1	0 or 1

<txp:aks_cache_disable /> – Used ONLY inside <txp:aks_cache> … </txp:aks_cache> block.

Example

<txp:aks_cache id="block1">Some content and txp tags...</txp:aks_cache>

<txp:aks_cache id="block1" form="my_txp_form" />

Cache menu elements per section

<txp:aks_cache id='menu <txp:section />'>
<h3>Tags cloud</h3>
<rss_uc_cloud section='<txp:section />' />
<h3>Last added articles</h3>
<txp:article_custom form="tf_excerpt" limit="20" section='<txp:section />' sort="LastMod desc" />
</txp:aks_cache>

Successful story

Site1 TxP 4.2.0
main page before install aks_cache:

<!-- Runtime: 1,3107 --><!-- Query time: 0,890924 --><!-- Queries: 20 --><!-- Memory: 5336Kb, -->

after:

<!-- Runtime: 0,0513 --><!-- Query time: 0,014651 --><!-- Queries: 14 --><!-- Memory: 2956Kb, -->

article page before:

<!-- Runtime: 0,8311 --><!-- Query time: 0,678711 --><!-- Queries: 30 --><!-- Memory: 3004Kb, -->

after:

<!-- Runtime: 0,1720 --><!-- Query time: 0,091886 --><!-- Queries: 27 --><!-- Memory: 3019Kb, -->

Graph from Google webmaster tools

aks_cache plugin was installed 09 april 2010, now 26 april 2010