1# Stale Plugin - Making your Dokuwiki Cache Stale 2 3## About 4 5Stale is a [DokuWiki Plugin](https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:stale) that aims to delete or make all DokuWiki Cache stale. 6 7For this purpose, it will : 8 * touches all configuration files (ie change only the modified date, not the content) in order to make the rendering cache stale (ie HTML,...) 9 * delete the [sitemap file](https://www.dokuwiki.org/sitemap) if present. 10 11 12## Configuration file touched 13 14The following configuration files are touched: 15 16 * the main configuration file: [local.php](https://www.dokuwiki.org/config) 17 * all plugin info file [plugin.info.txt](https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:plugin_info) 18 19> Note that the plugins that are using the cache system, must make the cache dependent of their info file to get the cache stale 20 21Why ? Because these files are cache dependencies and if touched will then prohibit the use of the cache by the next request. 22 23## How to stale ? 24 25You can stale the cache: 26 27 * in the [sitemenu tool](https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:menus) via the hand icon ![Hand index icon](images/hand-index-fill.svg) 28 * in the [admin page](https://www.dokuwiki.org/admin_window) 29 30 31## Release 32 33 * 2021-09-04: 34 * As [per request 2](https://github.com/ComboStrap/stale/issues/2), Make the cache stale, reload the page and shows the feedback 35 * 2021-09-01: 36 * Delete the [sitemap](https://www.dokuwiki.org/sitemap) 37 * 2021-08-30: 38 * The stale menu item is now a website item 39 * The action label is more clear and was added as language reference 40 * 2021-08-04: 41 * First release 42 43## Reference 44 45Based on the [dead plugin toucher](https://github.com/anandr/dokuwiki-plugin-toucher/pull/2#issuecomment-809981442) idea. 46