Caching

Caching is essential to speed up your site and should generally be enabled. However under some circumstances you might want to disable or clear your cache. The dashboard provides an easy way to change your cache's behavior with a few clicks.

Caching in Automad is divided into multiple levels of chached information to speed up your website and process your content efficently. Pages are only rendered when necessary or their maximum lifetime is reached and content is only crawled when changes have been made to pages, files or settings.
Check out the detailed information for all available settings and actions on the Caching tab in the System Settings section.

Cache Settings in config.json

As described before, you can also directly edit the caching preferences in config/config.json. Note that all time settings are defined in seconds.

{
    "AM_CACHE_ENABLED": true,
    "AM_CACHE_LIFETIME": 43200,
    "AM_CACHE_MONITOR_DELAY": 120
}