Philip K Meadows

<p><strong>Fast AF caching! Optimize your website performance for the best page speed</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Minifies HTML, JavaScript and CSS files</li>
<li>Defers loading of JavaScript</li>
<li>Compresses JPEG and PNG images</li>
<li>Generates static HTML pages</li>
</ul>
<p>Try it and see the results for yourself…</p>
<h4>Getting Started</h4>
<p>No complicated settings to deal with;</p>
<ol>
<li>Deactivate/delete any current caching or minification plugins</li>
<li>Install WP Roids</li>
<li>Activate WP Roids</li>
<li>Log out</li>
<li>Refresh your home page TWICE</li>
</ol>
<h4>“It broke my site, arrrrrrgh!”</h4>
<p><strong>Do the following steps, having your home page open in another browser. Or log out after each setting change if using the same browser. After each step refresh your home page TWICE</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Switch your site’s theme to “Twenty Twenty” (or one of the other “Twenty…” Themes). If it then works, you have a moody theme</li>
<li>If still broken, go to the WordPress Plugins page and disable all Plugins (except WP Roids, obviously). If WP Roids starts to work, we have a plugin conflit</li>
<li>Reactivate each plugin one by one and refresh your home page each time time until it breaks</li>
<li>If <em>still</em> broken after the above step, go to the Settings tab and try disabling JS optimisation for the Plugin which triggered an error in the previous step – this is done in the second section “Plugins JavaScript”</li>
<li>Finally, if no improvement has occurred, go to the Settings tab and experiment with toggling options in the first section “Core Settings”</li>
<li>If you have the time, it would help greatly if you can <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-roids" rel="ugc">log a support topic on the Support Page</a> and tell me as much as you can about what happened</li>
</ol>
<h4>How Fast Is It?</h4>
<p>In testing, WP Roids was FASTER than:</p>
<ul>
<li>WP Super Cache</li>
<li>W3 Total Cache</li>
<li>WP Fastest Cache</li>
<li>Comet Cache</li>
<li>Autoptimize</li>
<li>WP Speed of Light</li>
<li>…and many more!</li>
</ul>
<h4>Where Can I Check Site Speed?</h4>
<p>Either of these two sites is good:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://tools.pingdom.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Pingdom</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gtmetrix.com" rel="nofollow ugc">GTmetrix</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Software Requirements</h4>
<p>In addition to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/" rel="ugc">WordPress Requirements</a>, WP Roids requires the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong><code>.htaccess</code> file to be writable</strong></p>
<p>some security plugins disable this, so just turn this protection off for a minute during install/activation</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>PHP version greater than 5.6.0</strong></p>
<p>It WILL throw errors on activation if not! No damage should occur though</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>PHP cURL extension enabled</strong></p>
<p>Usually is by default on most decent hosts</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>Copyright: © 2019-Present <a href="https://philmeadows.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Philip K. Meadows</a> (coded in Great Britain)</p>
<p>Released under the terms of the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0-standalone.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU General Public License</a></p>
<h4>Credits / Additional Acknowledgments</h4>
<ul>
<li>Software designed for WordPress
<ul>
<li>GPL License <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/GPL" rel="nofollow ugc">https://codex.wordpress.org/GPL</a></li>
<li>WordPress <a href="https://wordpress.org" rel="ugc">https://wordpress.org</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Photograph of Lance Armstrong
<ul>
<li>Source: <a href="http://newsactivist.com/en/articles/604-103-lf/lance-armstrong-cheater-0" rel="nofollow ugc">http://newsactivist.com/en/articles/604-103-lf/lance-armstrong-cheater-0</a></li>
<li>Used without permission, but “Fair Use” for the purposes of caricature, parody and satire</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>


WP Roids

The fastest caching plugin for WordPress. FASTER than WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Fastest Cache and many more...

Danila Vershinin

<p>Cacheability makes your WordPress site a better HTTP citizen, improving SEO and cache efficiency.</p>
<h4>Free Features</h4>
<p><strong>Soft 404 Fix</strong></p>
<p>WordPress returns HTTP 200 for empty search results, invalid tag pages, and empty category archives. Google marks these as “soft 404” errors in Search Console, hurting your SEO.</p>
<p>Cacheability fixes this by returning proper 404 status codes when:</p>
<ul>
<li>Search results are empty (<code>/?s=nonexistent</code>)</li>
<li>Tag archives are empty (<code>/tag/nonexistent/</code>)</li>
<li>Category archives are empty</li>
<li>Author archives are empty</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Smart Cache-Control Headers</strong></p>
<p>Automatically adds <code>s-maxage</code> headers so Varnish, NGINX, and CDNs can cache your pages efficiently without affecting browser caching behavior.</p>
<ul>
<li>Search/404 pages: 1 hour cache</li>
<li>All other pages: 1 year cache (your purge plugin handles invalidation)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Cacheability Pro</h4>
<p>Upgrade to <a href="https://www.getpagespeed.com/web-apps/cacheability-pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Cacheability Pro</a> for advanced features:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Cache Warming</strong> — Automatically warm pages after purging so visitors never hit cold cache</li>
<li><strong>Conditional GET (304)</strong> — Return 304 Not Modified for unchanged content, saving bandwidth</li>
<li><strong>ESI Support</strong> — Cache pages with dynamic nonces (comments, login forms)</li>
<li><strong>Rate-Limit Safe</strong> — Smart request queuing to avoid 429 errors</li>
<li><strong>Sitemap Warming</strong> — Warm all pages from sitemap after full purge</li>
<li><strong>WP-CLI Commands</strong> — <code>wp cacheability warm</code> and more</li>
<li><strong>Priority Support</strong> — Get help when you need it</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://www.getpagespeed.com/web-apps/cacheability-pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Get Cacheability Pro <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span></a></p>


Cacheability

HTTP optimization for WordPress. Fixes soft 404 errors and adds smart cache headers.

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