Theme Update and Caching Problem

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply!

We have forwarded their message to our devs. We will update you hear once we hear back from them regarding cache.

Are you experiencing any issue other than cache at the moment?

Best regards,
Yigit

Hi,

Could you please use either – https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/ or – https://wordpress.org/plugins/comet-cache/? Many users are only using cache plugins and not server side cache. Once we clarify server side cache issue, you could compare cache plugins with server side cache on a testing installation :)

Best regards,
Yigit

Hi,

Have you checked your websites caching while it is in maintenance mode? Enfold is only adding no-cache headers when response from the server is 404 or 503. If you have checked your website while in maintenance mode (503), that is actually expected.

Best regards,
Yigit

Hi,

It’s directly related to a no-cache header Enfold theme puts down !!!

Sorry for the delay. The only time that the theme sets the header to no-cache is when someone is exporting the theme options, so those headers are definitely not set by the theme.

How do they check if the headers are actually set to no-cache? Are they using some kind of tool?

This is what we get when we check the headers of the kriesi.at site, which is using the Enfold theme, on https://httpstatus.io/

    date
    Mon, 30 Mar 2020 07:50:15 GMT
    server
    Apache
    vary
    Accept-Encoding,Cookie
    cache-control
    max-age=3, must-revalidate
    upgrade
    h2,h2c
    connection
    Upgrade, close
    transfer-encoding
    chunked
    content-type
    text/html; charset=UTF-8

As you can see Cache-control has a max-age of 3 days.

Best regards,
Ismael

Hey!

Thank you for the update.

According to the following thread, the headers are added because of the PHP sessions, which is used by the theme to add extra options for the breadcrumbs and portfolio. The users there managed to use varnish and nginx reverse proxy caching by adding this code in the functions.php file.

function custom_theme_setup() {
        add_theme_support('avia_no_session_support');
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'custom_theme_setup' );

This will disable all sessions generated by the theme and hopefully remove all unwanted headers that prevents caching from working properly.

// https://kriesi.at/support/topic/enfold-seems-to-add-cache-disabling-headers/#post-546256

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

It seems like you have already that code in functions.php file in line 1400.

If you have not, please use the code as following

function new_custom_theme_setup() {
        add_theme_support('avia_no_session_support');
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'new_custom_theme_setup' );

Best regards,
Yigit

Hi,

Is it working properly now? Please confirm it with your hosting provider.

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

Glad to know that the alternative is working. Unfortunately, we might not be able to help you with the original issue further because it’s server related and we are not that familiar with it. Please feel free to open a new thread if you have more inquiries.

Thank you for your patience.

Best regards,
Ismael