W3 Total Cache Troubleshooting

W3 Total Cache Troubleshooting post will help you resolve some of the issues that keep occurring with this great plugin. The information below is a collection from the wordpress.org/support/plugin/w3-total-cache website.

I decided to write this post to help everyone that needs some tips or needed to resolve their issue and could find as many solutions in the one place.

What you need:

– Access to your server through FTP, cpanel or other means

Have a look at the following images to learn more about which files you will be deleting.

The following removes the whole w3-total-cache folder from the server.

Removing W3 Total Cache Completely

1 ) Remove the following files in ‘wp-content’ folder.
– advanced-cache.php
– db.php
– object-cache.php

2 ) Remove the folder named w3-total-cache that may be residing in ‘wp-content/plugins’ folder.

3 ) Remove the line define(‘WP_CACHE’, true); in your wp-config.php file.

4 ) Remove /wp-content/w3tc/ dir

5 ) Remove /wp-content/w3-total-cache-config.php file

For W3 Total Cache 0.9.2.6/7/8 add also the following steps:

6 ) Remove /wp-content/w3tc-config/ dir

7 ) Remove /wp-content/cache/ dir

8 ) Delete all the entries in your .htaccess file and make sure the following are added.

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

I will be adding more information and solutions as I come across them from forums.

All credit is given to all who have contributed to the solutions mentioned above from the plugin’s link mentioned above and forums.

Good luck!!!!