Steak House Cache Settings | Best Practises

Hi,
Would you please give a step-by-step direction in achieving the best cache settings for the Steak House Template?
The way I understood, the sequence needs to be the following: install GK Cache plugin > Enable it > turn on required cache settings in template configs (CSS & JS?) > turn on Joomla 3.0 cache (Conservative or progressive?). Please advice if my understanding is incorrect.

Hi

Here You will find all informations You need: https://www.gavick.com/documentation/jo ... hce-plugin

Yes... I have followed the instruction about GK Cache plugin to the letter... and this works fine right now.
I wish to understand the implications (Pros & Cons) of 1. Using the Joomla System Cache on top of the GK Cache. 2. Using the web server cache... So we have 3 different levels of cache controls in the hierarchy.. GK Cache, Joomla System Cache, Web Server cache.... Whats the ideal combination?

Hi

For start GK Cache is only some extended classes for default joomla cache solution, so question is simplier

Joomla Cache and Web Server Cache.

First joomla cache will simplifier the code by building new files so most of the PHP code will not need to render on every visit. Than server cache will bring togeter even more files. It's a good solution for static pages, but if You have a news portal with couple of new articles per day than news may be show with even couple of hours delay. I would not recommend using server cache with shops for example. I've seen some problems with cart not being refreshed correctly or even purchasing items someone else added to cart.

That makes sense... However, when I turned on the GK Cache plugin (not joomla cache)... I noticed that the GK Social plugin for Facebook stopped showing on the pages... is this supposed to happen? I de-activated GK Cache after that

Hi

Och. I think I know this issue. This may happen if plugins are set in a wrong order, best way to fix it is by editing /layout/block/social.php and change line:

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  window.addEvent('load', function(){

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  window.addEvent('ready', function(){