Nginx Cache Control
Nginx Cache Control Plugin without the Cache Purge Module
Install
This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.
Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:
wp plugin install https://github.com/dshanske/nginx-cache-control/archive/refs/heads/master.zipNginx Cache Control Plugin without the Cache Purge Module
Some of the code is based on the code of other Nginx Cache Plugins, but this is designed to be a simple, lightweight implementation
Specifically....
Mark Jaquith came up with the basic design using a header that forces a dynamic page load, and described it in a blog post in 2012.
http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/how-i-built-have-baby-need-stuff/
An example of a php configuration file for Nginx can be found as example.conf
The timestamp code is based on the code used in Nginx Helper, which uses the nginx-cache-purge module.
https://github.com/rtCamp/nginx-helper
I reviewed Peter Molnar's WP-FFPC plugin, which uses a different caching technology. My taxonomy link retrieval came out of his code.
https://github.com/petermolnar/wp-ffpc
Looking at these plugins give me ideas for expanding this plugin, which is designed to be minimalist as muc as possible.
DDOS Protection
Assuming this becomes a popular caching method, a DDOS attack could be perpetrated if they start sending the X-Nginx-Cache-Purge:1 header to slow refreshes. To prevent this, a simple solution is to not use 1 as the value.
To support this, you can set the value of the header to anything as long as you do so in your Nginx configuration.
Add the following to your wp-config.php to customize.
define( 'NGINX_PURGE_KEY', '123456' );