Smart Refresh is a feature we’ve introduced for all sites running on our Flywheel Cloud Platform with FlyCache enabled. In a nutshell, Smart Refresh allows site changes and updates to be displayed quickly on the front-end of a site without the need to clear the entire cache.
Traditionally, there is no way to clear parts of FlyCache in order to see updates instantly on a site or page (this was instead determined by a cache expiry time). And while it’s possible for our wonderful support team to set up a caching exclusion for a page, normally to see your changes right away you would need to clear your site’s cache manually from the Flywheel dashboard.
While clearing the entire site cache isn’t necessarily a bad thing, for particularly busy sites (we’re talking multiple thousands of daily visitors), clearing the entire cache can have a substantial impact on performance as the cache is built back up.
On our side of things, (when Smart Refresh is enabled) FlyCache will do the following:
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activity on Posts, Pages, Attachments, Revisions and the Navigation MenuActions that will initiate a Smart Refresh include:
And that’s a rundown on Smart Refresh! If you have any further questions regarding this feature, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our Happiness Engineers via the Help page.
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