GravityExport and caching plugins

Allow-list all download links

Although the plugin returns headers that say the response should not be cached, most caching plugins will override that. So if you have issues with downloading the file, and you have a caching plugin; find out how it can bypass caching for URLs, and add the following items to the exclusion lists (assuming the plugin accepts an asterisk (*  ) as a wildcard):

• /gf-entries-in-excel/*
• /gravityexport-lite/*  
• /gravityexport/*   

Why allowlist?

When your site uses as caching plugin like WP Rocket, WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache or any other caching plugin, you can expect some strange behavior from the download link like:

• The downloaded file always contains the same content
• The download link only works once
• The download doesn’t work at all

The download link is always returning the current results from the database. Therefore caching these URLs isn’t helpful.