User Guide of Magento 2 Cache Warmer Extension

General Configurations

At the backend, go to FME EXTENSIONS > Configurations. Here you can find the extension configurations.

• Enable Cache Warmer: Select ‘Yes’ to enable the extension.
• Payload: Select the percentage of pages that you want to send to the queue to be cached.
• Queue Schedule: Schedule a time to auto generate queue
• Warm Schedule: Schedule a time to automatically warm cache
• Refresh Status: Schedule a time to automatically change cache status

Queue Configuration

Under the Queue Configuration section, you can see the following options.

• Select Queue Type: You can generate Queue to be cached from two sources: Collection and Sitemap. Collection means the queue will be generated from all the products, categories, and CMS pages in the store. If you select ‘Collection’, the following options appear.
  • Ignored Product Types: Select the type of products you want to exclude from the caching process.
  • Ignored Visibility Types: Select the type of visibility you want to exclude from being cached.
  • Add URLs: Enter custom URLs you want to add to the queue
  • URL Priority: Set cache priority for different pages. 1 is the highest and 0 is the lowest priority.

If you select Sitemap in the Queue Type field, the following options appear which allows you to upload a sitemap. You can create a sitemap by going to Marketing -> SEO & Search -> Sitemap.

Warmer Configuration

Under the Warmer Configuration section, you see the following option.

• Ignored Page Types: Select the page types you want to ignore from being warmed.

Cache Warmer Pages

Click on FME Extensions -> Cache Warmer Pages

This section allows you to view, generate and warm store pages.

When you click Warm Queue, the specified percentage of pages will be cached as shown below.