A very simple plugin to make your site run lightning fast with caching.

Till Krüss

A5hleyRich

Redis Object Cache

A persistent object cache backend powered by Redis®¹. Supports Predis, PhpRedis, Relay, replication, sentinels, clustering and WP-CLI.

Taylor Lovett

<p>Simple Cache was constructed after getting frustrated with the major caching plugins available and building sites with developer-only complex caching solutions that get millions of page views per day. Simple Cache promises the following:</p>
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<li>Extremely simple one-click install. There is an on-off switch. That’s it. No need to wade through 50 complicated settings.</li>
<li>Simple Cache makes your site run very fast so you can handle lots of traffic.</li>
<li>Extremely easy to delete. Don’t like the plugin? You can remove it, and your website won’t break.</li>
<li>Easily clear the cache if you need to.</li>
<li>Enable gzip compression</li>
<li>Want to get advanced with object caching (Memached or Redis)? An advanced mode is available that will automatically setup <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/batcache/" rel="ugc">Batcache</a> and <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/memcached/" rel="ugc">Memcached</a>/<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-redis/" rel="ugc">Redis</a> for you.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you need your site to run fast, don’t have time to mess with complicated settings, and have been frustrated by other caching plugins, give Simple Cache a try.</p>
<p>Pull requests are welcome on <a href="https://github.com/tlovett1/simple-cache" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For full documentation, questions, feature requests, and support concerning the Simple Cache plugin, please refer to <a href="http://github.com/tlovett1/simple-cache" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.</p>


Simple Cache

I had this plugin on about 30 sites two years ago, but have since removed it, one by one, because of bad experiences of many kinds. The last was removed today, after site crashed due to fatal error in caused by the last update to this plugin.

When deactivating it also puts DEFINE('WP_ACHE', false); at the top of wp-config.php. This is bad and makes trouble using another cache plugin, unless this line is manually removed.

I can not recommend this plugin. Be aware of the thing mentioned above, when uninstalling to try out another.

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