Cloudways

Breeze is a free, simple (yet powerful) and user-friendly caching plugin developed by the Cloudways team. It offers various options to optimize WordPress site performance at various levels. It works equally great with WordPress, WordPress with WooCommerce and WordPress Multisite.
Breeze excels in the following areas:
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Performance: Breeze improves website speed and resource optimization. Other features include file level cache system, database cleanup, minification, support for Varnish cache and simplified CDN integration options.
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Convenience: Breeze is easy to install and configure directly from WordPress. Configuring Breeze is easy and most of the default options work well right out of the box. The recommended settings should work on all your WordPress websites seamlessly.
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Simplicity: Breeze is designed to be simple for all users. Just install and activate the plugin and you’ll see the results instantaneously.
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What makes Breeze Cache Plugin awesome is that it comes with builtin support for Varnish. If Varnish is not installed on your servers, Breeze will utilize its internal cache mechanism to boost up your WordPress site performance.
FEATURES
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<li>Seamless integration with Varnish Cache for efficient content delivery. No manual adjustments needed – all settings come pre-configured for your convenience.</li>
<li>Optimize performance using Cloudflare’s caching capabilities. No specific Breeze configurations are needed – it works out of the box.</li>
<li>Effortlessly integrate your preferred Content Delivery Network (CDN) for global content distribution with Breeze instead of using the the CDN providers’ plugins.</li>
<li>Trim WordPress database bloat effortlessly. Breeze’s Database Options optimize and declutter your database, boosting performance by removing unneeded data like post revisions and trashed content.</li>
<li>Take command over caching exclusions. With Breeze, you have the power to prevent specific URLs, JS files, and CSS files from being cached.</li>
<li>Achieve smaller page sizes and faster load times through HTML, CSS, and JavaScript minification, including inline CSS and JavaScript minification.</li>
<li>Load images when they’re visible, not all at once, for faster webpage performance by implementing lazy loading for images.</li>
<li>Load JS files with deferred loading, enhancing overall performance.</li>
<li>Supercharge your site’s speed with Breeze’s advanced preloading features: load fonts early, quicken link clicks, and enhance DNS requests for a seamless user experience.</li>
<li>Master real-time interactions with Breeze’s Heartbeat API management. Fine-tune notifications, sales data, autosaves, and more to optimize WordPress website performance by adjusting API call frequencies.</li>
<li>Effortlessly manage Breeze settings using Import/Export. Download your configurations as a .json file for backup, or effortlessly import existing settings to quickly fine-tune your optimization.</li>
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Support: We love to provide support! Post your questions on the WordPress.org support forums, or if you are a Cloudways Customer you may ask questions on the <a href="https://community.cloudways.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudways Community Forum</a>.
<h3>Requirements</h3>
PHP 7.4, PHP 8 recommended for better performance, WordPress 6.0+

Breeze Cache

2 updates since 2.0.10 have introduced bugs into my website, where previously it was working correctly with Breeze.

This has caused lots of lost time and some lost revenue.

I can't take the risk to run into more issues.

Quality control needs to improve. Something is going very wrong there.

Will update this review if anything changes, but this is the truth for now.

Keep running into problems


Hey, for quick and effective page caching, go for this plugin – it's great with or without Varnish or Cloudflare CDN. No need to mess around with CSS and JS; there's another plugin for that, doing the fancy stuff. Stick to this one for caching, and let the other one handle the techy bits. Easy peasy!


I suggest using it for Page Caching only, not CSS & JS optimization


Not bad, but you have to add the next features, without it, it's just another cache plugin.




Remove unused css!!!



Better support to CDN with exclude / include custom directory and files



And maybe, checking the plugin performance when the minify option is enabled.




Thanks


Not bad... But you have a work to do.

Breeze is a caching plugin developed by Cloudways. Breeze uses advance caching systems to improve site loading times exponentially.

Rajin Sharwar

Serve Static provides a very efficient, simple and fast way of implementing static page caching in WordPress. 
It will generate static HTML copies of your webpages which will be then served using your server rewrite rules. This feature will bypass the whole PHP process and render only a simple HTML file without having to interect with the PHP, or MySQL for getting your page’s design or content.
This plugin is really handy and helpful if your webpages are mainly static, like websites of Blogs, portfolios, company portfolios, service, and many more. This plugin doesn’t support any dynamic content caching, that means, all none of your dynamic content will be showing in the frontend, rather, a static version of that content will be showing.
This plugin also comes with home-made HTML, CSS and JS minification features, which you can use to auto-minify the static files. This ensures more lightness of the HTML pages, and more boost to your page speed. Also, you can auto-warm the cache using the Warm feature, which will stimulate a visit on all your pages, to create the static files before they are served to your visitors.
<h3>Usage</h3>
After activating the plugin, it will try to modify your .htaccess file. If this is not possible for some reason, make sure to enter the rules by yourself. NOTE: without these .htaccess rules, the static files won’t be served or created. Note that, this is only applicable if you are using a Apache/Litespeed server.
<pre><code># BEGIN Serve Static Cache
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !(^|;\s*)wordpress_logged_in_.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(elementor|vc_row|fl_builder|fl-theme-builder) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wp-admin/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} GET
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/serve-static-cache/$1/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wp-content/serve-static-cache/$1/index.html [L]
# END Serve Static Cache
</code></pre>
If you the website installed on a sub-folder, like such that “https://test.com/domain1”, is your main domain of your WordPress site, you need to use a different .htaccess code. The plugin will automatically do that for you, but incase you need to do it manually, below is the format you need to follow.
<pre><code># BEGIN Serve Static Cache
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !(^|;\s*)wordpress_logged_in_.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(elementor|vc_row|fl_builder|fl-theme-builder) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wp-admin/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} GET
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ [NC]
RewriteCond "WP_CONTENT_DIR"/serve-static-cache/"sub-folder domain without slashes"/$1/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /"sub-folder domain without slashes"/wp-content/serve-static-cache/"sub-folder domain without slashes"/$1/index.html [L]
# END Serve Static Cache
</code></pre>
The value of the WP_CONTENT_DIR should be something like: “/home/test.com/public_html/staging/wp-content” 
The value of the “sub-folder domain without slashes” should be your folder where WordPress is installed. So, if the WordPress is installed in “https://test.com/staging”, you should enter “staging”.
When using a nginx server, make sure to add the following rules:
<pre><code># BEGIN Serve Static Cache
location / {
 if ($http_cookie !~* "wordpress_logged_in_") {
 set $cache_uri $request_uri;

 if ($request_uri ~* "^/(elementor|vc_row|fl_builder|fl-theme-builder)") {
 set $cache_uri "null cache";
 }

 if ($request_uri ~* "^/wp-admin/") {
 set $cache_uri "null cache";
 }

 if ($request_method = GET) {
 set $cache_uri "null cache";
 }

 if (-f $document_root/wp-content/serve-static-cache$cache_uri/index.html) {
 set $cache_file $document_root/wp-content/serve-static-cache$cache_uri/index.html;
 }

 if ($cache_file) {
 rewrite ^ /wp-content/serve-static-cache$cache_uri/index.html break;
 }
 }
}
# END Serve Static Cache
</code></pre>
This plugin creates static HTML versions of your pages/posts, or literally any custom post types, and serves them to your non-logged-in visitors. This is an awesome way to make your website blazing fast, and not even one request is made to PHP to request your pages.
Anytime a Static page/post/any custom post type is updated, the cache of that specific page is automatically cleared, and regenerated. So, you do not have to worry about regenerating the cache eac time after making changes to your content.
This plugin is also well-integrated with frontend post rating plugins as well, so that when any rating is added, the cache gets regenerated automatically. If you are using any rating plugins that are not working with this plugin, kindly let me know in the support forum.
This plugin heavily relies on CRON to process it’s functionalities. So please make sure either your server-level cron or WordPress Cron is running and working. If not, this plugin will show errors in the Admin Notices to help you direct to the problem. If there are still many issues, kindly share in the plugin support thread.
By default, this plugin automatically works with Apache and Litespeed servers, and everywhere .htaccess rules is functional. But to make this plugin work with NGINX, you will be needing to add some rules to your nginx.conf or site.conf file. An appropiate admin notice will be shown to you accordingly, kindly follow those instructions.
This plugin is supposed to work with all the form builder plugins like WP Forms, Ninja Forms. If you face any issues while using any form plugin, kindly let me know in the thread, and I will try to make it compitable.
<h4>Performance</h4>
Converting your website to a static webpage can drastically improve your performance and page speed. Serve Static eliminates all requests made to your database and ultimately reducing the first time to byte, total blocking time and many more.
This is especially impactful for websites that have mainly static pages, and use long pages with a lot of graphs, sliders, and other load-heavy resources like animations.
<h4>Reduce hosting bandwidth</h4>
Using Serve Static to serve static HTML pages of your website really cuts a great cost in your bandwidth usage, as this doesn’t hit the MySQL server for your visitors, but instead serves delivers a cached, minified HTML copy. This releases much of your cost, alongside the page boost.
We are working on features like “hosting your Static pages in a third party CDN, and serving those to your visitors”. If you are interested to see this feature in soon, let me know by opening a supprt thread!
<h3>NOTE</h3>
Caching is fully disabled for Administrators, or any logged-in users. Static Cache will only be served to logged-out visitors of your site.
Note that, the Static Cache can only be regenerated by using the buttons in the admin toolbar, or in the Settings page. After the cache is Flushed, the cache is NOT regenerated when someone visits the pages. This is done so that none of the personalized content gets saved in the HTML caches.
This plugin may not work as expected with a caching plugin like WP Rocket or W3 Total Cache. So make sure the URLs of the static pages are excluded from the specific plugins. 
For example, when using WP Rocket, you need to navigate under Settings > WP Rocket > Advanced Rules > Never Cache URLs, and enter the URLs to the pages you want to serve as Static. 
When using W3 Total Cache, navigate under Performance > Page cache > Advanced > Never cache the following pages.

Serve Static – Automatic WordPress Static Page generator

Serve Static is a static HTML page generator WordPress plugin to create and serve static copies of your existing web pages to avoid PHP/DB load.

Breeze Cache vs Serve Static – Automatic WordPress Static Page generator