Autopilot and Expert mode

Autopilot runs the modules that fit your plugins with tested settings and keeps checking the site. Expert mode leaves every decision to you. Both use the same 15 modules.

When Autopilot switches on which module

ID	Module	Autopilot switches it on when
acf	ACF Cache	Advanced Custom Fields is active
adminbar	Admin Bar Status	Never; switch it on by hand
cachegroups	Cache Groups Manager	Always
debug	Debug Mode	Only when debug is switched on in the settings
minify	CSS & JS Minify	No other plugin minifies, such as WP Rocket, Autoptimize or LiteSpeed Cache
multisite	Multisite Support	The site is part of a network
options	Options Optimizer	Always in Autopilot mode
pagecache	Page Cache	No other page cache plugin is active, never in a network
statistics	Statistics	Redis is connected
transients	Transient Manager	Always
wcml	WCML Cache	WooCommerce Multilingual is active
woocommerce	WooCommerce Optimizer	WooCommerce is active
wordpresscore	WordPress Core Cache	Always
wpml	WPML Cache	WPML is active
wprocket	WP-Rocket Redis Integration	WP Rocket is active

The IDs are the ones the WP-CLI command wp cachepilot modules uses. Modules whose plugin is no longer active are switched off again.

Values Autopilot sets

• Page Cache: a lifetime of 10 hours; the maximum is 12 hours, so nonces stay valid.
• Options Optimizer: options larger than 10 KB stop loading on every request; the total of autoloaded options is flagged above 100 KB.
• Lifetimes are set once. Values Autopilot learned later are kept.
• Self-tuning uses sampled statistics of 1 in 50 requests and never raises lifetimes of price, cart, session, user or coupon data.