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--></style></head><body 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">Good point! Big sites should use Varnish, that’s definitely what I’ve heard.</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">We are still a WP network of sub-sites with under 100 instances. Small networks might be the use case where WP Super Cache shines.</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>Jason Heffner<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 20, 2015 9:36 AM<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><div><p class="MsoNormal">We had a lot of issues with SuperCache on a very large multi-site and had to ditch it. It had problems expiring cache properly when used with some other plugins. For our multisite we ended up putting varnish in place. It’s not for the faint of heart though, as it took a lot of configuring to get right, but the overall performance has been excellent with over 30k sites.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I would have liked to use WordFence, but it’s a very heavy module. Most the customizations you can make directly to apache or the .htaccess file to accomplish the same thing. We thought about Relevanssi, with an elastisearch backend, but the team ended up going with the Reader plugin from wpmudev. </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I’ve been looking at WP Spam Shield lately, since this is one of the few plugins that will intercept spam before it hits the db. This would decrease possible outburst of those creative spammer kiddies.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">p: (814) 865-1840, c: (814) 777-7665<br>Systems Administrator<br>Teaching and Learning with Technology, Information Technology Services<br>The Pennsylvania State University</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Aug 20, 2015, at 9:10 AM, Ben Bakelaar <<a href="mailto:bakelaar@rutgers.edu">bakelaar@rutgers.edu</a>> wrote:</p></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><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></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><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></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Ben Bakelaar</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">IT Services</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">School of Information, Rutgers University</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><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"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">wp-edu [mailto:<a href="mailto:wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com"><span style="color:purple">wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com</span></a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Covello, Steve<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, August 19, 2015 11:51 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education.<br><b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [wp-edu] New WP Launch...</span></p></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">WordFence is a security plugin. It does not do caching like the caching plugins do.</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- Steve</span></p></div><div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"><hr size="2" width="98%" align="center"></span></div><div id="divRplyFwdMsg"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">wp-edu <<a href="mailto:wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com"><span style="color:purple">wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com</span></a>> on behalf of Leslie Geary <<a href="mailto:leslieg@ucsc.edu"><span style="color:purple">leslieg@ucsc.edu</span></a>><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, August 19, 2015 7:40 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education.<br><b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [wp-edu] New WP Launch...</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"> </span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><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"">Super Cache or W3 Total Cache? We are having performance issues and I'm wondering if the caching from WordFence is not adequate.</span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"> </span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><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"><span style="color:purple">Steve.Covello@granite.edu</span></a>> wrote:</span></p></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From looking through your theme and plugins via <a href="http://whatwpthemeisthat.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">http://whatwpthemeisthat.com/</span></a>, I recommend the following plugins:</span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Wordfence (install this NOW!!!!)</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">iThemes Security</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Enable media replace – super handy</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Duplicate post – good for templates that you can copy</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Google sitemap generator</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Relevanssi – improves search capability</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">WP DB Manager – archives DB backup</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">A caching plugin like Super Cache or W3 Total Cache</span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Otherwise, it looks great!</span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thx - Steve</span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">-- </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Steve Covello</span></b></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Rich Media Specialist/Instructional Designer/Online Instructor</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Chalk & Wire e-Portfolio Administrator</span></p></div></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Granite State College</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="tel:603-513-1346" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">603-513-1346</span></a></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Skype: steve.granitestate</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Scheduling: <a href="http://meetme.so/stevecovello" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">http://meetme.so/stevecovello</span></a></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">wp-edu <<a href="mailto:wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com</span></a>> on behalf of "Berardi, Richard" <<a href="mailto:rberardi@georgian.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">rberardi@georgian.edu</span></a>><br><b>Reply-To:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education." <<a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</span></a>><br><b>Date:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Wednesday, August 19, 2015 4:02 PM<br><b>To:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education." <<a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</span></a>><br><b>Subject:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>[wp-edu] New WP Launch...</span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Hello all,</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We launched our new WP site on Monday, a year in the making. (switched from Ektron)</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Everything was done in-house. (I am a one man show here, with the support of our marketing staff)</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Everything on the site is new (content, images, hosting, CMS, etc.) - we started with a blank slate.</span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I still have lots to do, but we needed to launch before the students came back.</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Please let me know your thoughts:</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://georgian.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">http://georgian.edu</span></a></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4f81bd">Richard Berardi</span></b></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><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></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"><br>_______________________________________________<br>wp-edu mailing list<br><a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com"><span style="color:purple">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</span></a><br><a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu</span></a></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"><br><br clear="all"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">--<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Leslie Geary</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Project Management Group, Interim Mgr</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Web Service Manager</span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">Information Technology Services, UC Santa Cruz</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121">831-459-1075</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";background:white">_______________________________________________</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><br><span style="background:white">wp-edu mailing list</span><br><span style="background:white"><a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a></span><br><span style="background:white"><a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu">http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu</a></span></span></p></div></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>