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 improves your website loading time by making it a well-behaved HTTP citizen.</p>
<h3>Plugin Features</h3>
<h4>Conditional HTTP GET</h4>
<p>Cacheability adds conditional HTTP GET feature for WordPress posts. A repeat request to a post which wasn’t modified, will result in a 304 HTTP response. It quickly tells the browser: “nothing new here” without sending the whole post all over again. This saves the bandwidth and increases performance on both ends.</p>
<h4>Fixes soft 404 errors</h4>
<p>WordPress emits soft 404s on empty search results or an invalid tag page, e.g., either <code>/?s=foo</code> or <code>/tag/bar</code> will always result in the HTTP 200 status code, irrespective of whether any entries were displayed there. Soft 404s are bad for you! Cacheability eliminates them by setting the proper 404 HTTP status upon empty search results or tags.</p>
<p>This improves your SEO ranking.</p>
<h4>Warming cache for updated content</h4>
<p>Every time you edit a WordPress post, your cache is cleared in many places. The post page is cleared, the homepage is cleared, the category, feeds, etc., etc. You edited just a <em>single</em> post or page, but your cache is cleared in <em>many</em> places!</p>
<p>This is cool because you don’t want stale content on your website. But it’s not cool to make your next visitors face slow pages!</p>
<p>Cacheability automatically warms up the pages which were purged from cache:</p>
<ul>
<li>It warms up purged caches as soon as you edit your content, via cron</li>
<li>It warms up both Gzip and Brotli versions of cleared pages</li>
</ul>
<p>All this allows for more happy visitors that hit your cache, and not slow backend!.</p>
<p>This feature requires <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/varnish-http-purge/" rel="ugc">Proxy Cache Purge</a> plugin.<br />
Also, ensure WordPress cron is configured correctly.</p>


Cacheability

Cacheability improves your website loading time by making it a well-behaved HTTP citizen.

WP Roids vs Cacheability