Please help me improve load time if you can

[Ryan]

Let me ask your opinion about something - don't you think the plugin developer should warn people BEFORE they install their plugin about all the work that's involved with removing it?

It should probably be documented better on their plugin repo. page. They may appreciate an email with that as a suggestion.

I'm still convinced I need a premium plugin so my brain doesn't have to be fried just to get my blog to load quickly - hopefully a talented developer out there will fill the void one day.

Paying for a plugin wouldn't make it better or easier to use. The only advantage would be technical support. But most WP developers can install and uninstall a caching plugin anyway, so you could just pay anyone to do it. No need for a specialist support team or plugin for that purpose.

Ryan, The plugin does everything but the .htaccess I think, it didn't used to, but if you delete the folder (versus disable it) you can't expect it to uninstall, eh? ;)

But couldn't the uninstall.php file just modify the .htaccess file immediately before deleting itself?

I assume I'm missing something really obvious as they'd presumably have done that already if it were possible; I'm just wondering why it wouldn't work that way.

[Ipstenu]

But couldn't the uninstall.php file just modify the .htaccess file immediately before deleting itself?

Grep might be a bit much for this, given the characters we're tossing into .htaccess, though. Adding is much easier than deleting.

[Ileane]

@Ipstenu @Ryan

Thanks for your advice on this. I have a friend that can help me with this, and Ipstenu is absolutely right I need to give this a try myself. I don't consider myself a webmaster by any means I put myself in the "blogger" category. The problem with that when it comes to WordPress is you constantly hear about these "seemingly" fantastic, life-altering, plugins and assume that all you need to do is install and uninstall your heart out.

I'm really a visual learner and when it comes to plugins, most of the time I can search YouTube and find a tutorial if the developer doesn't have one. Ironically every video I found mentioned what a pain it is to remove Super Cache! Two of them even mentioned "I'm not going to get into that today" :)

I'll get this taken care of soon and I'm sure my friend will do it for free but I know many that would benefit from a video, so I'm going to see if my friend Andy Bailey from CommentLuv will whip one up for me.