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<p><strong>Rapid Cache</strong> is a fork of <em>Comet Cache</em> that focuses on new features, stability and simplicity.</p>
<p>If you care about the speed of your site, Rapid Cache is one of those plugins that you absolutely MUST have installed! 🤓</p>
<p>Rapid Cache takes a real-time snapshot (building a cache) of every Page, Post, Category, Link, etc. These snapshots are then stored (cached) intuitively, so they can be referenced later, in order to save all of that processing time that has been dragging your site down and costing you money.</p>
<p>The plugin uses configuration options that you select from the options panel. See: <strong>Rapid Cache -› Options</strong> in your Dashboard. Once a file has been cached, Rapid Cache uses advanced techniques that allow it to recognize when it should and should not serve a cached version of the file.</p>
<p>By default, Rapid Cache does not serve cached pages to users who are logged in, or to users who have left comments recently. Rapid Cache also excludes administrative pages, login pages, POST/PUT/DELETE/GET(w/ query string) requests and/or CLI processes.</p>
<p>If you need more details, check our <a href="https://github.com/megaoptim/rapid-cache/wiki/" rel="nofollow ugc">Wiki</a></p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>SIMPLE and well-documented (just enable and you’re all set).</li>
<li>Options to control the automatic cache clearing behavior for Home and Posts Page, Author Page, Category, Tag, and Custom Term Archives, Custom Post Type Archives, RSS/RDF/ATOM Feeds, and XML Sitemaps.</li>
<li>URI exclusion patterns (now supporting wildcards too).</li>
<li>User-Agent exclusion patterns (now supporting wildcards too).</li>
<li>HTTP referrer exclusion patterns (now supporting wildcards too).</li>
<li>The ability to set an automatic expiration time for cache files.</li>
<li>Client-Side Caching (to allow double-caching in the client browser).</li>
<li>Caching for 404 requests to reduce the impact of those on the server.</li>
<li>Feed Caching (RSS, RDF, and Atom Feed caching).</li>
<li>Cache or ignore URLs that contain query strings (GET Requests).</li>
<li>Apache Optimizations to enable GZIP Compression.</li>
<li>WP-CLI Compatibility.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/megaoptim/rapid-cache/wiki/Developer-Hooks" rel="nofollow ugc">Actions/filters</a> and <a href="https://github.com/megaoptim/rapid-cache/wiki/Clearing-the-Cache-Dynamically" rel="nofollow ugc">PHP API</a> for developers</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<p>In addition to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/" rel="ugc">WordPress Requirements</a>, Rapid Cache requires the following minimum versions:</p>
<ul>
<li>At least PHP 5.4 (we recommend PHP 7.2+)</li>
<li>Web server (Apache, NGINX, Litespeed, other)</li>
</ul>
<h4>License</h4>
<p>Copyright © 2020 <a href="https://megaoptim.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">MegaOptim</a><br />
Copyright © 2016 WebSharks, Inc (coded in the USA)</p>
<p>Released under the terms of the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU General Public License</a>.</p>


Rapid Cache

Disclaimer: I have a lifetime licence of Comet Cache, which actually when I bought the license it was called Zen Cache, or the name before that... So Comet Cache Pro out of the box, with very little fiddling makes my sites running on crappy Godaddy shared hosting from loading in 2-3 seconds time, to load almost instantly, to the point that people ask me if I'm using a VPS or a dedicated server... The only drawback that it has (and I tried this just once many years ago), the caching did not work on my WAMP localserver running on a Win. 7 Pro machine.

After downloading and installing Rapid Cache on the same localhost today, I was pleasantly surprised that it works on my localserver, not that I need to have such a plugin in this environment, but it will be good for testing, benchmarking, etc... Before this plugin was activated, my pageloads were 0.6 - 0.7 seconds, with a visible tiny "pause" between page loads. Once I activated and turned the caching on in this plugin, and without making ANY configuration changes, the page loads are almost instantaneous, with no more visible lagging. 

I did not do any live testing on a really slow server yet, but if the results are similar to my Comet Cache Pro plugin, this plugin would speed up any site that normally would load under 2-3 seconds to almost no lag time... hence my 5 star rating.

I don't really need this plugin, but it's REALLY nice to have an excellent replacement in case Comet Cache Pro goes away, or stops working for one reason or another...

The only thing missing from this plugin that exists in the Comet Cache plugin (that I can see right away), is the ability to import/export the settings. In my case, because I don't mess with too many of the settings, it's not the end of the world. In the past I have played with other cache plugin, that one will need a doctorate degree and 2 weeks of playing around just to make it sort of work - not the case here...

This is my honest review of the Rapid Cache plugin after using it for about 10 minutes or so !

Thank you.   

Good out of the box.

Rapid Cache is advanced WordPress caching plugin inspired by simplicity that will make your site blazing fast!

Kenny

<p>WPSearch 2 is a major update to the highest rated search plug-in for WordPress, WPSearch.<br />
This plugin focuses on search relevancy and speed.</p>
<p>If you find this project useful and you want to support it, just follow @_kennyk_ on Twitter 🙂</p>
<p>The major features of WPSearch 2 are:</p>
<pre><code>* Super-fast search speed
* Unmatched and customizable search relevancy
* Control over boosting the importance of title and content fields
* Instantly updated searching after a post has been written
* Searching of any type of post
* Wildcard and Boolean operator support
* Category searching
</code></pre>
<p>Requirements:</p>
<pre><code>* WordPress 3
* The iconv library/multibyte support (Usually installed/enabled on a server by default. If not, have an admin compile PHP with --enable-mbstring).
</code></pre>
<p>Coming soon!: Exclude certain posts or categories (a long-standing feature request).</p>
<p>Note:</p>
<p>If you have a large site with over 10,000 posts, consider using WPSearch Premium,<br />
which has all the power of this free repository version, but can handle up to 500,000 posts under heavy load and faster speed<br />
with it’s low-level backend driver. To learn more, email kenny@oconf.org.</p>
<h3>Manual Installation</h3>
<p>Install WPSearch 2 from the WordPress plugin admin panel if possible.</p>
<p>If you are upgrading from a previous version, it is recommended that you rebuild your index after the upgrade.</p>
<pre><code>* Copy the wpsearch folder to the WordPress plugins directory
* Set permissions of the wpsearch directory to 777 (very important!): $ chmod -R 777 wpsearch/*
* Activate wpSearch
* Go to Settings-->WPSearch Options, and click "Build Index"
* Click "Save Changes" and wait until the page reloads (this can take a while depending on the number of posts in your blog)
* Go to your blog's search box and search. Do the results look better? Cool!

Did you have trouble installing? Let me know! katzgrau@gmail.com
</code></pre>
<p>Note: Don’t forget the bit about changing folder permissions!</p>
<h3>Fix Log</h3>
<ul>
<li>2.0.3.0: Fixed file path inclusion issue for Zend library. Added notice in case user does not have multibyte support.</li>
<li>2.0.2.5: Stopped WPSearch from interfering with admin post search, fixed error message in WP admin page registration</li>
<li>2.0.2.0: Added customizable searching of post types, and a relevancy fix</li>
<li>2.0.1.2: Fixed ‘quick edit’ javascript error due to erroneous inclusion, added fix for long indexing times</li>
<li>2.0.1.0: Re-added ability to boost title and content, fixed pagination bug</li>
<li>2.0.0.0: Complete rewrite with a bunch of new features. Check it out!</li>
<li>1.5.0.5: Null Result Fix ( Finally! ), logging support, search library upgrade (ZF v1.5.3)</li>
<li>1.5.0.1: Comment Searching, Foreign Character support, ‘Phone Home’</li>
<li>1.5.0.0: Faster searching, core integration, 0 style or javascript includes</li>
</ul>
<h3>Known Conflictions</h3>
<p>wpSearch is known to react with certain plugins which manipulate search results.<br />
These plugins most likely expect the default WordPress search to in use, which it is not.<br />
The following plugins are known to cause issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>Custom Query String ( CQS )</li>
<li>Headspace2</li>
</ul>
<p>Send all bug reports to ohcrap@oconf.org.</p>


WP Search

WPSearch 2 is the missing site search for your Wordpress installation. Install this plugin if you need a fast, relevant, google-like search.

Rapid Cache vs WP Search