Thread: Vantage with W3 Total Cache and MaxCDN tips

Vantage with W3 Total Cache and MaxCDN tips

I couldn't really find elaborated threads with good tips on configuring W3 Total Cache and MAXCDN to work with Vantage. Yet those tools are almost mandatory if you want your Vantage site to perform. So I thought I should share what I've got working out so far, hoping that others will join in. I'm pretty sure there are many ways to further optimize my current setup.

Here's my current working configuration:

Page Cache: Enabled
What's checked:
- Cache posts page
- Don't cache pages for logged in users
- Don't cache pages for following user roles
- Administrator
... Left the rest as default

Minify: Enabled - Manual
What's checked:
- Rewrite URL structure
- HTML minify settings (Enable, Inline CSS minification, Inline JS minification, Line break removal)
- JS minify settings (left everything as default)
- CSS minify settings
- Preserved comment removal (not applied when combine only is active)
- Line break removal (not applied when combine only is active)
@import handling: none
- CSS file management: selected my theme, no CSS file added

Database Cache: Disabled

Object Cache: Disabled

Browser Cache: Enabled
What's checked, same in all categories
- Set Last-Modified header
- Set expires header
- Set cache control header
- Enable HTTP (gzip) compression

CDN: Enabled
CDN Type: MaxCDN
What's checked:
- Host theme files
- Host minified CSS and JS files
- Host custom files

I use OIO Publisher and Wordpress Social Login plugins and had to do this to make them work:

- Added {plugins_dir}/wordpress-social-login/assets/img/32x32/wpzoom/* to the list of Rejected files
- Added {plugins_dir}/oiopub-direct/uploads/* to the Custom file list

So far I can't get Vantage to work properly with Host attachments and Host wp-includes/ files options... but still trying.

Anyone has suggestions to improve my setup or other tips to share for everyone in general?