Fixed – Treat HTTP 412 (Precondition Failed) as a successful purge, returned when there is no matching cache item to purge
7.0.0 – 2026-06-17
Added – Automatic cache purge on Elementor changes: global Colors/Fonts, Site Settings and Kit saves, Theme Builder template saves, and the “Regenerate Files & Data” button now trigger a purge (active only when Elementor is installed)
Removed – Nginx PageSpeed cache support (PageSpeed has been deprecated)
Removed – Pagespeed optimized CSS setting (style id tag stripping)
Security – Fixed stored XSS in admin settings templates (CVE-2025-31764)
5.4.1 – 2021-07-16
Changed – Fastcgi purge works with HTTP method GET + prefixed ‘purge’ in url
5.4.0 – 2021-06-18
Added – Additional debug information (wp_remote_request details) when CACHOLONG_CACHE_DEBUG_HTTP_API_REQUEST is set in wp-config.php
Changed – Now fastcgi purge works similar to pagespeed purge (without custom unlink code)
Removed – Required server variable ‘CC_NGINX_FASTCGI_CACHE_PATH’
Removed – Message: required $_SERVER[‘CC_NGINX_FASTCGI_CACHE_PATH’] is not set
Changed – Code base maintenance
5.3.2 – 2021-04-15
Changed – Fixed error in docs for WP-CLI commands
5.3.1 – 2021-04-15
Changed – Improved readability readme.txt
5.3.0 – 2021-04-15
Added – Support for one or more ip addresses in WP CLI commands purge to override hosts.json
Added – WP CLI commands now have aliases
Changed – Updated and tweaked readme.txt
Changed – WP CLI commands purge and purge all now only work with arguments
Changed – Removed WP CLI purge_all command (this is now handled with purge all)
Changed – Updated copyright from 2015-2020 to 2015-2021
Changed – Removed register_deactivation_hook hook and empty method
Fixed – Trashing a post or page didn’t purge
5.2.0 – 2021-03-10
Fixed – Purge old and new slug when slug changes
Fixed – Trash and untrash work again
Added – Support for WPML (including language negotiation type domain)
Added – Plugin is tested with WordPress 5.7 (RC 2)
5.1.1 – 2020-12-14
Fixed – Editing home page did not purge home page. Issue with WordPress method url_to_postid() which does return post id for home page.
5.1.0 – 2020-11-18
Added – WP CLI commands: purge, purge_all, factory_reset. For details see readme.txt
Added – New admin bar commands: purge pagespeed, purge fastcgi
Added – link to settings page on plugin index page
Added – Plugin is tested for usage with WordPress 5.6 RC (and 5.5.1)
Changed – Updated copyright from 2015-2019 to 2015-2020
Changed – Moved logging to cacholong-cache-control.log
Fixed – Checkbox ‘all caches’ on settings page > Purge settings default/custom post types did not empty other checkboxes anymore. Fixed.
Fixed – Trashing an item in Gutenberg didn’t trigger purge.
Fixed – Stripping id tags now only works on frontend and if a user is not seeing an admin page or admin_bar.
5.0.1 – 2020-09-30
Fixed – Removing id tag for pagespeed optimizing of css, caused issues with some backend plugins. Stripping id tags now only works on frontend.
5.0.0 – 2019-11-13
Added – Multisite support
Added – WP CLI support
Added – Factory reset
Added – Message when required $_SERVER[‘CC_NGINX_FASTCGI_CACHE_PATH’] is not set
Added – Message when all caches are disabled in hosts.json
Added – Plugin is tested for usage with WordPress 5.3.
