Boring Cache Warmup Lite is a lightweight, practical WordPress plugin that warms up your cache. It runs from your own site, does not connect to external services, and keeps the job boring, transparent, and privacy-friendly.
Boring tools, because they simply work.
The plugin does not use external services, tracking, cloud queues, external APIs, or CDN-hosted assets.
It is intentionally lightweight: small plugin files, local requests, conservative batches, and no extra frontend baggage.
Current free version features:
- Tools submenu page in the WordPress admin.
- Dashboard widget with a direct warmup button.
- Lightweight design with small plugin files and no external runtime dependencies.
- Nonce-protected AJAX calls.
- Manual content selection for the homepage, pages, posts, products, and allowed public custom post types.
- Saved content selection shared by the Tools page and dashboard widget.
- Server-friendly default pacing to reduce timeout and overload risk.
- Progress bar and status messages.
- Manual stop button.
- Compact progress by default, with an optional detailed URL log showing status, duration, and HTML payload size.
- A clear compact, detailed, or cancel choice before detailed logging starts on large sites.
- Technical post types such as Elementor templates and Astra Advanced Hooks are excluded by default.
Screenshots
Select the homepage and public content types before starting a manual warmup.
Follow a running warmup in the compact default view with live progress and metrics.
Review the completed warmup summary with processed URLs, duration, HTML payload, and errors.
Choose compact view, detailed URL logging, or cancel before a detailed warmup starts on a large site.
Inspect the optional detailed URL log with HTTP status, path, duration, and HTML payload size.
Start a warmup from the dashboard widget using the saved content selection.