Set WordPress Transient Expiration via Variable Value
I want to set WordPress Transient via Variable Value.
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Do WordPress’ cron’s clean up expired transients?
WordPress has a cron named “delete_expired_transients” as seen in the image below.
Why does WordPress create two transients with the same name when I specify timeout value?
Working with transients with a timeout, I seem to be getting two transients created, and I don’t quite understand why. Looking at the source code on: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/set_transient/, it would appear this only occurs when wp_using_ext_object_cache() returns false.
Are transients garbage collected?
This question got me thinking Transient RSS feeds in wp_options not removed automatically?
How does object caching work?
I’m looking for a definitive answer here. When object caching is enabled, where do options and transients end up living?
Cache remote (HTTP) request with Transients API
I am trying to use get_transient() method in my WordPress, I have read the document and seems like I am doing what has been described in the docs.
When should I be using the Transients API?
I’ve never used the Transients API before and was wondering if anyone has guidance on when to use it. The Codex article implies that as a theme developer I might want to set each new WP_Query() as a transient; I assume the same might be said for direct $wpdb queries and query_posts(). Is that overkill? And/Or are there other places I should default to using it?
Will it break my site if I delete all transient records in wp_options table?
My site currently has an outrageous 500k+ transient records in the wp_options table.
This causes the table to be crashed frequently and so be my site.
Long option names fail silently?
This was really driving me crazy. I was debugging some code with code-generated transient names and they were failing like crazy for no apparent reason.
Looping through posts per category gives same posts for each category
For a specific section on my website I loop through some categories and get the three latest posts in that categorie and list them. Like so: