In the Forums: Caching embedded templates
An interesting thread about caching embedded templates and, in general, how EE template caching works. There are a couple of important morsels of information here. First, from EllisLab TSS Ingmar Greil:
Caching is done on a per-URL level, not a template level: if you have the same template that is used to power each of your articles you will have a copy for each URL, same with embedded templates, if you embed the sidebar template into each page and you cache the sidebar template, you will have a copy for each URL.
Ingmar also quotes Nevin Lyne of EngineHosting:
Unless you actually are seeing a specific need, for a specific template, to be cached, I would highly recommend to not cache unless you have to. That goes for query caching, too.
Wise words.
Read the whole thread: Caching Embedded Templates
Posted on May 05, 2010 by Ryan Irelan
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Derek Hogue — 06:47 on 05.05.2010
It should be noted, I think, that this thread seems to relate only to Template Caching and Query Caching, not Tag Caching.
smartpill — 12:16 on 05.11.2010
So are they saying that caching a page template with embeds already caches those embeds in context and caching the embedded templates only unnecessarily duplicates the caching so if they are being cached it’s better to turn off the individual embedded templates’ caching? (That’s probably the most times I will ever use the word “cache” in one sentence)