Powerful Cache Plugins To Speed Up Your WordPress

by ravi chauhan on April 8, 2010

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Millions of people run their blog on WordPress. It is the most popular blogging Script, and it keeps getting better.

One way to speed up your WordPress is by adding the proper cache plugin in to your website. Caching not only reduces the load on your servers, but it improves the performance and speed of your blog, hence keeping your visitors happy.

speeding 1 Powerful Cache Plugins To Speed Up Your Wordpress

Here are some quick reasons for using caching

  • Provides a faster access to websites & its webpages
  • Increases responsiveness at the client side
  • Decreases network latency & download time of images, php, scripts, flash etc.

WP Super Cache

This plugin is an extension of the original version, generating static HTML files form your dynamic WordPress blog,meaning that your server won’t have to deal with those resource intensive PHP scripts all the time.

Hyper Cache

This plugin was specially designed for sites that run on low resources. It is able to manage both plain and GZIP compressed pages, automatically cleans the system to reduce disk usage, and is easy to configure. Some configuration is required.

Plugin Output Cache

Plugin Output Cache can be used by other plugins to cache portions of their output for efficiency. By itself it does nothing but other plugins (like my own Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Recent Comments, and Random Posts) can be adapted to take advantage of its cache whenever available.

W3 Total Cache

The fastest and most complete WordPress performance optimization plugin. W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your blog by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download time of your theme and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration

WP-Cache

WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make you site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and the building the page from the database.

DB Cache

This plugin caches every database query with given lifetime. It is much faster than other html caching plugins and uses less disk space for caching.

WP Cache Inspect

The aim of the plugin is to help people analyse the behaviour of the cache builtin to WordPress. It provides optional the administrator with a quick overview of how the cache is performing and allows the cache to be removed manually from an admin page.

Cache Images

Goes through your posts and gives you the option to cache all hotlinked images from a domain locally in your upload folder

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{ 34 comments… read them below or add one }

Simran April 8, 2010 at 7:46 am

Some of these plugins are new to me. I only use WP Super Cache plugin :)

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Dany April 8, 2010 at 9:42 pm

all these are new to me :P

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Ellen Joy Castel April 9, 2010 at 7:32 pm

same here!

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Dany April 10, 2010 at 7:50 pm

lol great.. i hav got some company.. :P

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VISHAL April 15, 2010 at 5:41 pm

Lol..u really got the company but I always recommends you people to shift to the wordpress from blogger

Ellen Joy Castel April 17, 2010 at 2:20 am

will do that soon vishal :) Thanks for the advice :)

VISHAL April 8, 2010 at 11:26 am

I used WP Super cache and DB Cache from the list…

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Dany April 10, 2010 at 7:50 pm

DB means?

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Ellen Joy Castel April 13, 2010 at 12:22 pm

I am guessing… it’s Database.

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VISHAL April 14, 2010 at 1:14 pm

You are rite Ellen DB Means Database !!

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Ellen Joy April 14, 2010 at 11:00 pm

Thanks for the confirmation.. I hope you guys can give us a basic overview of how wordpress works :)

VISHAL April 15, 2010 at 5:42 pm

Sure I don;t have any problem to give you the review of Wordpress.. Just tell me in your free time

VISHAL April 8, 2010 at 11:26 am

I will give try to other plugins and will let people know about the performance

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Dany April 10, 2010 at 7:51 pm

sure do it dude

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Ellen Joy Castel April 17, 2010 at 2:50 am

will wait for that :)

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Dany April 8, 2010 at 9:41 pm

I never used WP before .. will use it once i star using WP

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Ellen Joy Castel April 9, 2010 at 7:54 pm

I’ve never tried wordpress before as well because I’m used to blogger

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Dany April 10, 2010 at 7:50 pm

ya blogger is simple and easy to use ..

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VISHAL April 14, 2010 at 1:15 pm

But I can say if u switch from blogger to wordpress then and only then you will understand the power of the wordpress :)

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Ellen Joy April 14, 2010 at 11:05 pm

You’ve got a good point there… will explore wordpress once I’ve got my own computer again

VISHAL April 15, 2010 at 5:46 pm

Sure now u finally got ur comp..Now give it a try dear Ellen :)

Ellen Joy Castel April 17, 2010 at 2:58 am

this comp is no good because it shuts down and automatically restarts frequently… but I’ve tried browsing through wordpress… I just have to finalize my thoughts on the site I want to put up.. thanks for the advice :)

Dany April 8, 2010 at 9:41 pm

Any similar plugins/widgets for blogger?

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VISHAL April 14, 2010 at 1:15 pm

No plugins for blogger dude

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Ellen Joy April 14, 2010 at 11:03 pm

That’s sad coz I;m using blogger too

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VISHAL April 15, 2010 at 5:48 pm

Ohh then please swith to the Wordpress..I will help you in Migration of blogger to wordpress

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Ellen Joy Castel April 17, 2010 at 4:36 pm

Thanks :) Will do that soon enough… will let you know then :)

Dany April 8, 2010 at 9:59 pm

admin dude u hav a superb blog with really nice design ..can u post how to make a similar blog like this in WP .. it would be really helpful for beginners like me

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Ellen Joy Castel April 10, 2010 at 7:09 pm

yeah, do post some web-templates or tips on webdesigning.. that will be a good read :) Thanks in advance! :)

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Dany April 10, 2010 at 7:49 pm

yaa me 2 want some nice tips on web designing

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VISHAL April 14, 2010 at 1:17 pm

Hope Ravi will start a blog that you people wants

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Ellen Joy April 14, 2010 at 11:08 pm

this blog is perfect..we just need some tips and guides on using wordpress

VISHAL April 15, 2010 at 5:51 pm

Sure Ellen..Meanwhile I will also help u to do so

Ellen Joy Castel April 17, 2010 at 2:53 am

Thanks Vishal :) I will start conceptualizing that dream site of mine. :D

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