Disabling cache for plugins, updates, et al

1

I’ve disabled page cache on my development machine using the following config setting:

return [
	'cache' => [
		'pages' => [
			'active' => false
		]
];

Just to keep things tidy in development, is it possible to disable the cache created for plugins and updates as well?

For example, these sorts of things …

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2

There is no general setting for plugin caches. Different plugins probably handle this differently, I’ve done it via a cache option in the past. Not sure what happens if you set 'cache' => false, i.e. if that also includes plugin caches. Should be easy to find out by removing the caches and see if they are recreated with this setting.

3

That would be good to know. Will also have to test that. Great question, @splorp

4

I’ve confirmation that using 'cache' => false only applies to pages.

However, you can also use the following to disable the ‘updates’ cache.

return [
	'cache' => [
		'updates' => [
			'active' => false
		]
];

Unfortunately, doing this also disables the plugin version status.

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5

every plugins cache can be changed (different driver etc) or disabled.


<?php
return [
   'bnomei.redirects.cache' => false,
];
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6

Brilliant!

Thank you, Bruno.