Just adding my thoughts. I do tend to think that selecting in the popup should add the space. When typing we naturally add a space, when slecting something we tend to just keep typing and I’ve fallen foul of this a few times.

One of my users has a space in their username, which is very annoying I didn’t think it could happen. So I couldn’t use @ reply to them.

Another has their username as a dot ( . ) which is even more annoying. I think I might delete them. Or maybe I’ll change it to be “dot” 😀

PPS moreover, you could just use members/* and then your members directory (members/) will continue to be cached.

Both,

Adding this for people who are not familiar with Litespeed. If set up correctly, Litespeed caches pages, objects, widgets etc for individually logged-in users directly on the server’s disk (which will undoubtedly be an SSD). It is one of its best features and makes it the fastest cache around in my opinion. Simplistically, you have to specifically buy hosting with Litespeed’s system because it replaces the Apache system.

For now I’m using the following to exclude some sections from the Litespeed cache.

In the Litespeed plugin > Settings > [4] Excludes > Do not cache URLs

members/
members/*
forum/
forum/*
activity/
activity/*

When you enter these every letter you type is delayed because Litespeed is detecting what you type. Be patient.

‘members’ are the two slugs you need in particular because that will exclude the users profiles.

Litespeed will then cache the logged-in member individually except when they (or visitors) are visiting a subset of those slugs. This is better than not caching your logged-in users everywhere.

Of course, you have to have the Litespeed cookie set up for your WordPress installation for Litespeed to know who is logged in or not. However, the method above will exclude the slug and its children from caching whether the cookie is set correctly or not. therefore, it is a ‘simple’ method.

An alternative is to start to focus-in on the logged-in user and refresh parts of their cache on a short interval. However, if you do that there will always be a delay for a user changing a profile setting. I think that even a delay of a minute would be confusing for the user, you would have to set up a cron to run every minute and they would have to wait a minute to see the results.

I hope that helps for now and I’ll report back if I get further with it.

Best wishes,
Mike

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by Mike (DesignServe). Reason: Corrected one of the slugs and added more explanation