APO doesn't purge categories from page 2+

[lyhonlam]

My categories from page 2+ keep serving posts much older than they should to non-login users. How can i fix this ?.

I saw the same problem from 2 years ago but its not fixed apparently:

Wordpress APO Serving Old Pages

When you add a new post, Wordpress APO refreshes the main index page and main category page, but not page 2 or any of the subsequent pages. Since adding one new post will change not just the main listing page, but all the subsequent pages, it needs to invalidate these in the cache. So when you add a new post (or edit an existing post) it should update all index pages, all category pages for the selected categories (or categories removed in the case of an edit), and all tag pages for the tags ad…

[cbrandt]

Hi,

I was able to confirm this cache behavior in my test APO website. Do you have a ticket number? While we wait for the APO Team to look into the issue, you could create a Cache Rule (beta) to properly cache the paginated archives pages (category, tags etc.)

(http.request.uri.path contains "/page/" and not starts_with(http.request.uri.path, "/page/"))

You then can either set the rule to bypass cache altogether, or set Edge Cache to your desired value to make it cache those archives for a certain amount of time. (You may need to manually purge the affected pages.) APO will return the cf-apo-via with a value that implies it’s not caching, but the pages will be cached by Clouflare nevertheless.

[lyhonlam]

Thanks you ! this fixed it.