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WPML with W3 Total Cache

March 22nd, 2010 by
update: WPML and W3TC are working fine now. We use W3TC on all our production sites and are getting great results. To read more about what we’re doing, have a look at this tutorial on WPML and W3TC.

First, sorry about sending everyone Chinese SPAM today. It wasn’t actually SPAM, but rather the Chinese version of our blog posts.

The reason this happened is because we activated W3 Total Cache on WPML. It looks like WPML and W3TC don’t play nice together, causing all this mess to happen. We’ve disabled it for now, but we’re not giving up.

Frederick Townes, the person behind W3TC (and a few other things) has agreed to cooperate with us on making the two plugins play together.

It’s very important to us because, as far as we can tell, W3 Total Cache is the only WordPress plugin that combines state-of-the-art cache, CSS+JS compression and Content Delivery Network (CDN) support.

Now, all we need to do is make sure all these powerful features play nice with WPML.

If anyone is into caching and performance, or is just running a busy WordPress site, let us know. We’d love to get help on this, especially for testing on different configurations.

12 Responses to “WPML with W3 Total Cache”

  1. I hope you guys fix problems. Both plugin is a must for me.
    Btw in wp3.0 i hope you give an option like “sidewide translate”. So we will not need translate same sections for each blog / site.

  2. Mathias says:

    Wonderful! Just this morning I moved a website to a new server and noticed that my current multilanguage plugin doesn’t work at all when W3TC page cacheing is enabled. In a stroke of luck (and some googling), I found WPML, started to evaluate the code, and now I’m reading that you’re cooperating with Frederick, which is great!

  3. Is there any expected delivery date for this please?

    Would be great to know when you expect WPML will work with W3TC.

    Rgds and thanks in advance
    Richard

  4. Alessandro Curci says:

    hello! how is going on? any news about this?

  5. Valentin Hussong says:

    Howdy, would love to switch several sites over from other language plugins to WPML to make them work with W3 Total Cache! Any updates about WPML and W3TC compatibility?

  6. faisal says:

    I am trying to convert site in arabic but it is giving error page not found everywhere

  7. Geneviève says:

    Hi,

    I’m experiencing difficulties witn compatibility right now while using different domains. The problem is only affecting the home pages at http://ptitslutins.org & http://littleelves.org (running WPML1.8.3).

    I will disable the plugin entirely for now.

  8. Michael says:

    Hi amir

    Is there any update of w3tc working with wpml when alias domains are used?
    we are using wpml with this configuration and when w3tc is enabled, only the first domain called is rendered (if it is .com from there on out everything is in German, no access to any other language), and not any of my other domains (.com, .fr, .co.uk, …) content shows up…

    Any ideas? What am I missing?

    thanks for your help.

  9. The Daily DG says:

    Hi, I have both plugins and apparently the problem is still there if you use the subdomain option: my site is diegograglia.net and the Spanish version is es.diegograglia.net.

    What I think I see is that W3 caches the Home page and you get either both in English or both in Spanish, depending on what it cached last.

    Has a workaround been found or do I need to change to a /es/ folder extension?

    Thanks!

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