Stale Plugin - Making your Dokuwiki Cache Stale

About

Stale is a DokuWiki Plugin that aims to delete or make all DokuWiki Cache stale.

For this purpose, it will :

• touches all configuration files (ie change only the modified date, not the content) in order to make the rendering cache stale (ie HTML,...)
• delete the sitemap file if present.

Configuration file touched

The following configuration files are touched:

• the main configuration file: dokuwiki.php - For Geshi
• the local configuration file: local.php - Ref: Purging the cache
• all plugin info file plugin.info.txt

Note that the plugins that are using the cache system, must make the cache dependent of their info file to get the cache stale

Why ? Because these files are cache dependencies and if touched will then prohibit the use of the cache by the next request.

How to stale ?

You can stale the cache:

• in the sitemenu tool via the hand icon
• in the admin page

Release

• 2023-02-20:
  • Touch the main configuration file conf\dokuwiki.php to delete the cache for Geshi
• 2021-09-04:
  • As per request 2, Make the cache stale, reload the page and shows the feedback
• 2021-09-01:
  • Delete the sitemap
• 2021-08-30:
  • The stale menu item is now a website item
  • The action label is more clear and was added as language reference
• 2021-08-04:
  • First release

Reference

Based on the dead plugin toucher idea.