Hello,
I've discussed this at length with you before, but I don't see the topic anymore, maybe you closed it. In any case, I'd like to revive it.
We were talking about ways to get multiple playlists from YouTube to work well in a Tubepress installation. I'm using a LOT of playlists, so the issue is that it takes a while to gather all the info from YouTube and display the thumbnails.
You said you were working on some coding to help with the issue. Have you come up with anything on that yet?
Otherwise, you were saying I could set up a cron job to bring up the page periodically, thus creating a pre-cache of the page that could be fed to people coming to the page for the first time.
I have done so with the "Run External Crons" plugin. However, I don't know if I've set the interval at a good timespan, and don't know how to verify that the cron jobs are actually happening as set up.
I have the interval for one page set up at 3600 seconds (http://www.humortime...l-humor-videos/) and another at 3556 seconds (staggering them, so they don't occur at the same time).
I'm using W3T Cache, and have Cache Preload set at 900 seconds, 10 pages per interval. Since that will preload the cache of 10 pages every 900 seconds, and we have tons of pages, I don't know how often it'll actually preload the video pages, but I figure it's got to be a longer interval than I have set up for the cron job -- so that should be ok, right?
Anyway, the example page I gave above still takes a long time to load (about 10-15 seconds). I would like to know if that's because the cron thing is not working as hoped, or what. Do you know how I can see if the cron jobs are happening, and if the cache preload is working as it should? If I could test those things, I would know whether this whole thing is do-able or not.
Thanks for your help.
PS: Found the other thread, the subject is: "Multiple sources, too many videos per page, wrong sort"