Tag: ESI

Getting Started with Varnish Edge Side Includes and Wordpress

There are a lot of cases on blogs where once you write the post, the cache for that page doesn't really have to be updated all that often.  Comments can be powered by Disqus so you don't need to bust the cache every time someone comments. If you make a change to a post, it's page and any pages that display it (home, category, etc) should be updated automatically anyway; wp- varnish is the best plugin for that btw. Now, the sidebar. That's where it can get tricky.  On a lot of the content sites I work on, we…