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--></style></head><body bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I recommend WP Super Cache. Zero configuration, just install and activate (and maybe click “on”). Reduced the load time on our WP network of ~50 sites from 1700-2300ms down to <500ms.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Meanwhile another colleague here was trying to use W3 Total Cache on a WP network with 30-40 sites and because it gives you complete power and control over caching options (like dozens of options) he could never get it working, despite being a top notch system administrator.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Ben Bakelaar</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">IT Services</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">School of Information, Rutgers University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> wp-edu [mailto:<a href="mailto:wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Covello, Steve<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 19, 2015 11:51 PM<br><b>To:</b> Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education.<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [wp-edu] New WP Launch...</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">WordFence is a security plugin. It does not do caching like the caching plugins do.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">- Steve</span></p><div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"><hr size="2" width="98%" align="center"></span></div><div id="divRplyFwdMsg"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> wp-edu <<a href="mailto:wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com</a>> on behalf of Leslie Geary <<a href="mailto:leslieg@ucsc.edu">leslieg@ucsc.edu</a>><br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 19, 2015 7:40 PM<br><b>To:</b> Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education.<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [wp-edu] New WP Launch...</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"> </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Quick question for Steve - doesn't WordFence do caching? Why have a caching plugin like </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Super Cache or W3 Total Cache? We are having performance issues and I'm wondering if the caching from WordFence is not adequate.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Covello, Steve <<a href="mailto:Steve.Covello@granite.edu" target="_blank">Steve.Covello@granite.edu</a>> wrote:</span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">From looking through your theme and plugins via <a href="http://whatwpthemeisthat.com/" target="_blank">http://whatwpthemeisthat.com/</a>, I recommend the following plugins:</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Wordfence (install this NOW!!!!)</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">iThemes Security</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Enable media replace – super handy</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Duplicate post – good for templates that you can copy</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Google sitemap generator</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Relevanssi – improves search capability</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">WP DB Manager – archives DB backup</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">A caching plugin like Super Cache or W3 Total Cache</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Otherwise, it looks great!</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Thx - Steve</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">-- </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Steve Covello</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Rich Media Specialist/Instructional Designer/Online Instructor</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Chalk & Wire e-Portfolio Administrator</span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Granite State College</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="tel:603-513-1346" target="_blank">603-513-1346</a></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Skype: steve.granitestate</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Scheduling: <a href="http://meetme.so/stevecovello" target="_blank">http://meetme.so/stevecovello</a></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">wp-edu <<a href="mailto:wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com" target="_blank">wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com</a>> on behalf of "Berardi, Richard" <<a href="mailto:rberardi@georgian.edu" target="_blank">rberardi@georgian.edu</a>><br><b>Reply-To: </b>"Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education." <<a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com" target="_blank">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a>><br><b>Date: </b>Wednesday, August 19, 2015 4:02 PM<br><b>To: </b>"Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education." <<a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com" target="_blank">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a>><br><b>Subject: </b>[wp-edu] New WP Launch...</span></p></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Hello all,</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">We launched our new WP site on Monday, a year in the making. (switched from Ektron)</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Everything was done in-house. (I am a one man show here, with the support of our marketing staff)</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Everything on the site is new (content, images, hosting, CMS, etc.) - we started with a blank slate.</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I still have lots to do, but we needed to launch before the students came back.</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Please let me know your thoughts:</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://georgian.edu" target="_blank">http://georgian.edu</a></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4f81bd">Richard Berardi</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Web Administrator</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><br>Marketing & Communications<br>Georgian Court University<br>900 Lakewood Ave.<br>Lakewood, NJ 08701<br>p: <a href="tel:732-987-2469" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">732-987-2469</span></a><br>e: <a href="mailto:rberardi@georgian.edu" target="_blank" title="mailto:rberardi@georgian.edu
mailto:greenhalgh@georgian.edu"><span style="color:purple">rberardi@georgian.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"><br>_______________________________________________<br>wp-edu mailing list<br><a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu" target="_blank">http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu</a></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"><br><br clear="all"></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"> </span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">-- </span></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Leslie Geary</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Project Management Group, Interim Mgr</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Web Service Manager</span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Information Technology Services, UC Santa Cruz</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">831-459-1075</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>