Current Status: compatible
WP-Optimize Cache is a popular all-in-one WordPress performance plugin that caches your site, cleans your database, and compresses your images.
In this article, we’ll show you how to use WP-Optimize with The Events Calendar to give your site and your events the best performance possible. There are plenty of settings to explore in the documentation, but we’ll cover calendar-specific settings here.
What you need
Minify Settings
In order to work with The Events Calendar, you’ll want to make sure that the minification settings are turned off. Head over to WP-Optimize > Minify and toggle the Enable Minify button to the off position.
Cache settings
The other 2 important settings to look for are under Cache.
1. Page Cache
Under Cache Settings, Set the Cache lifespan to 12 hours
2. Advanced settings
There, you can exclude your event URLs specifically from being cached.
Plugin Folders
Here is a list of the asset folders of each of our plugins that should be ignored.
| Plugin Name | Assets Folder |
|---|---|
| The Events Calendar | /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/(.*).css/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/(.*).js |
| Events Calendar Pro | /wp-content/plugins/events-calendar-pro/(.*).css/wp-content/plugins/events-calendar-pro/(.*).js |
| Events Tickets | /wp-content/plugins/event-tickets/(.*).css/wp-content/plugins/event-tickets/(.*).js |
| Events Tickets Plus | /wp-content/plugins/event-tickets-plus/(.*).css/wp-content/plugins/event-tickets-plus/(.*).js |
| Filter Bar | /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-filterbar/(.*).css/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-filterbar/(.*).js |
| Virtual Events | /wp-content/plugins/events-virtual/(.*).css/wp-content/plugins/events-virtual/(.*).js |
| Community Events | /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-community-events/(.*).css/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-community-events/(.*).js |
| Community Tickets | /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-community-events-tickets/(.*).css/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-community-events-tickets/(.*).js |
| Eventbrite Tickets | /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-eventbrite-tickets/(.*).css/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-eventbrite-tickets/(.*).js |
To copy-paste
You can use the below to copy-paste all CSS and JavaScript asset resources easily.
/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/(.*).css
/wp-content/plugins/events-calendar-pro/(.*).css
/wp-content/plugins/event-tickets/(.*).css
/wp-content/plugins/event-tickets-plus/(.*).css
/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-filterbar/(.*).css
/wp-content/plugins/events-virtual/(.*).css
/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-community-events/(.*).css
/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-community-events-tickets/(.*).css
/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-eventbrite-tickets/(.*).css
/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/(.*).js
/wp-content/plugins/events-calendar-pro/(.*).js
/wp-content/plugins/event-tickets/(.*).js
/wp-content/plugins/event-tickets-plus/(.*).js
/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-filterbar/(.*).js
/wp-content/plugins/events-virtual/(.*).js
/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-community-events/(.*).js
/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-community-events-tickets/(.*).js
/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-eventbrite-tickets/(.*).js