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January 6th. 2008, 11:02am

I’m a bit surprised at the number of blogs I come across that fail to load. A lot of the times, this can be fixed with a simple plugin call WP-Cache. WP-Cache will save a copy (cache) a Wordpress page the first time a user visits the page. This greatly reduces the overhead as it doesn’t need to run through all the php code and connect to the database on every page call.

It’s a very simple install, just upload the contents of the zip to your plugins directory and activate it. A new menu will appear under your options tab giving you filtering options.

And you can check the status of your cache at anytime, deleting files when necessary.

This plugin is simple and useful. It should be integrated into the project.

Please refer to the README.txt if you’re having trouble.

It’s important to note… that if you have this installed and you’re making template changes, you will need to disable the cache or clear it every time to see the changes in real time.

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5 Responses to “WP-Cache - Are you using it?”

Ellie Says:
January 6th, 2008 at 11:46 am

Excellent. I am working on the creation of the new blog and decided to move to wordpress. There is a learning curve there, but your blog has been extremely helpful. I noticed another plugin that is WP suggest for similar purposes. Do you prefer this one?

Rudy Says:
January 6th, 2008 at 1:26 pm

I’m using WP Super Cache since the original Wp-Cache wasn’t supported. WP Super Cache has WP-cache but it’s expanded. It’s a little bit more tricky to install. For my site, it’s low traffic so it’s not really helping that much. I might as well be ready though.

Geekstr Says:
January 6th, 2008 at 6:21 pm

Great plugin. Especially if you have high traffic. I love it and I think all bloggers on WP should use it.

Matt Ellsworth Says:
January 6th, 2008 at 6:37 pm

I use wp super cache - which is based off of wp-cache. But I use it to make sure my hostgator hosted blogs don’t abuse too much CPU power. My other blogs hosted on mosso - don’t really matter - they are quick and I just use the built in gzip.

clairec23 Says:
January 11th, 2008 at 11:40 am