Caching

All ACF blocks that are rendered with default functionality by using render_acf_block callback are cached. By default, WordPress Core object cache is not that useful so we recommend replacing it with something like Object Cache Pro -plugin that uses Redis.

Cache lifetime & invalidation

Blocks are cached for one hour. Change this with a air_acf_block_cache_lifetime filter. For example, like this.

add_filter( 'air_acf_block_cache_lifetime', function( $lifetime, $block_slug, $post_id ) {
  return MINUTE_IN_SECONDS * 30;
}, 10, 3 );

There is no warmup for block caching, so for the first visitor that visits a page, blocks are rendered with PHP at the request. For the next visitors, cached block HTML will be used. When the cache for a specific block gets old, again next visitor will trigger the generation of cached HTML.

Blocks are cached with a key that contains a hash of all block data, so every time that block contents are changed the cache also invalidates automatically. If the block uses, for example, data that comes from meta fields on the page, then it's wise to add the page updated timestamp to the cache key. That way block cache invalidates automatically every time page is updated. This can be achieved with the following example.

add_filter( 'air_acf_block_cache_key', function( $cache_key, $block_slug, $post_id ) {
  $cache_key .= '|' . get_post_timestamp( $post_id, 'modified' );
  return $cache_key;
}, 10, 3 );

Disable caching

Block caching is active only in production environments.

Disable block caching per block in the THEME_SETTINGS array by adding a 'prevent_cache' => true, to the block registration.

There is also air_acf_block_maybe_enable_cache filter available to disable the caching for all blocks or per block.

add_filter( 'air_acf_block_maybe_enable_cache', function( $cache, $block_slug ) {
  return false;
}, 10, 2 );