# A working Varnish 4 config for WordPress 4.4 - Bigdinosaur Blog

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**Created:** [December 18, 2015, 2:01am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/a-working-varnish-4-config-for-wordpress-4-4-bigdinosaur-blog/1097 "2015-12-18T02:01:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![BigDinoBlog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/bigdinoblog/32/417_2.png) [@BigDinoBlog](https://cog.discourse.group/u/BigDinoBlog)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 2:01am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/a-working-varnish-4-config-for-wordpress-4-4-bigdinosaur-blog/1097/1 "2015-12-18T02:01:43Z")

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> Adapting my extremely crufty [Varnish 3.x config](https://blog.bigdinosaur.org/adventures-in-varnish/) to Varnish 4 took most of a weekend. I found [a great VCL3-to-4 script on github](https://github.com/fgsch/varnish3to4) that did a lot of the heavy lifting, but there were a lot of little things to chase down and fix; the VCL syntax between versions 3 and 4 is [juuuust different enough](https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/4.0/whats-new/upgrading.html) to cause headaches. One of the major stumbling blocks was adapting the WordPress configuration that I’d been using forever and ever; it turns out that revisiting it was a really good idea, because I’m a lot happier with WordPress VCL now than I was before.

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