Had a hard time recently with one of my websites. It has grown bigger a lot faster than I can cope..Lucky for me I have wonderful staff at Exabytes.com to assist me throughout the gloomy period. Database was down for a few hours at peak times. It’s so frustrating. By this time I guess I have known almost 70% of their support staff who has to put up with my whiny mouth..hehe.. Then the search for optimisation came. After some review, wp-cache plugin has come to my attention. Even Malaysia’s Number 1 blogger, Liew CF uses it..Had first attempt at installing it but failed. This error message came up “advanced-cache.php link does not exist (…) cannot continue… fix previous problems and retry“. I was like WTF! Does it have anything to do with my wordpress version? Then did a further research on the internet and this situation was common. But then I tried to install it on my other blog and guess what? It worked wonderfully well and this blog was on a higher version of 2.1.1. This has made me more convinced to upgrade my blog to a newer version.

The thing is for some blogs you need to access your SSH through telnet or through your cpanel and create a symbolic link as per the instructions in the READ ME file. This is really a touch and go thing. You might end up crashing your blog. Then the situation went on for another day, and I got increasingly frustrated and stressed out, still thinking and playing with the idea of upgrading the blog. Instead of figuring out the issue on my own and crash my blog from upgrading, I have decided to seek help from the expert..who else if not Mr. Liew CF. I feel like I syok sendiri because he’s also a Johorean..So as you know all Johoreans are very nice people. hehe..Wrote an email and the reply was quick. Then he told me that he was using WP-Cache 2.1.1 plugin..I was like ok..What I have now is only WP-Cache 2.0 which was created back in 2006. Didn’t realised that they had an upgraded version because it’s hard to see at the creator’s blog. Then I quickly downloaded it and damn…you are a genius Liew! Thanks a lot..Now my problematic blog is working like a charm with WP-CACHE 2.1.1 PLUGIN.. Brilliant..I don’t have to worry about upgrading my server at least in the immediate future.

You may download wp-cache 2.1.1 plugin here.

Make sure you back up your blog mysql first before you install it, especially the wp-config.php file..If there is any error, you can easily replace it with old original file.

Steps to Install WP-Cache 2.1.1 plugin

1. Unzip the zip file.
2. Upload it ito your wp-content/plugin folder
3. Change write access of your wp-content file to 777.
4. Activate the plugin in your plugin manager screen.
5. Modify your wp-config.php file to include define(’WP_CACHE’, true)
6. Go to Option->Wp-Cache
7. Enable it.
8. Wallah.. no need to worry about creating symbolic link anymore..it’s all automatic..

All the best and good luck folks!