Right way to cache wp-content and wp-includes

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I noticed under Caching Overview > Cache performance that my site is 50% served by Cloudflare and 50% served by origin.
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My website is built on WordPress. Majority of the missed cache are requests in the /wp-content/* directory.
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Wanting to improve this (i.e., increase percentage served by Cloudflare), I created the following cache rule below, with an Edge TTL of 7 days and a browser TTL of 1 day.

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Being a novice at all this and not having a technical background, I’d appreciate your feedback and opinion on the cache rule I made.

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Hi there,

They way you’ve set those paths on the rule will not work.
Please delete the * from the value and it should be fine.

Take care.

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Thank you mcorreia!

I’ve been browsing more community threads here and I saw a post suggesting that this can be achieved via Pages Rules too, would this be correct?

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2nd question - between using Page Rule or Cache - which would be better?

Thanks!

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Page Rules are deprecated and will be disabled starting July 1st, 2024.