I’ve been using that new Caching Plugin by Ricardo Galli since April 14th. Which means that my email contact form has been broken since then. Sigh.

The WordPress 1.5 system has a new hook that allows a caching system to be inserted. It’s not a simple plugin that you activate/deactivate. It works pretty well on a plain vanilla WordPress system, but if you’ve added any dynamic content to your site within the WordPress hierarchy, such as an Email Form, then you need to be careful. In my case, the email-form.php file I have uses the WordPress structure…and it gets cached. Which means that form POST does not work, because the PHP never executes.

This also may be the cause of the “can’t leave comments” problem my sister reported.

So I’ve probably lost a lot of email during a critical time, dammit. Beware the Cache! I’ve modified my version to accept an array of files NOT to cache.

UPDATE: I see version 1.5.5 of the plugin has addressed this very issue, so I reverted to that.