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Hyper Cache

by Stefano Lissa

4.5
(82 ratings)

Hyper Cache is a cache plugin specifically written to get the maximum speed for your WordPress blog.

It can be used in low resources hosting as well on high end servers.

Hyper Cache is purely PHP and works on every blog: no complex configurations are needed and when you deactivate it no stale settings are left around.

Short list of features:

  • HTTPS ready
  • Able to serve expired pages to bots to increase the perceived blog speed by bots
  • Manages compression even on the fly for non cached pages
  • Lots of configurable bypasses: matching cookies, matching urls, user agents, …
  • Comments aware: is able to serve cached pages even to visitors who commented the blog (perfect for blog with great readers paritipation)
  • Cache folder can be moved outside your blog space to exclude it from backups
  • Controls over cache cleaning on blog events (post edited, comments, …)
  • Autoclean to controls the cache used disk space
  • CDN support
  • Other special options
  • Response header signature to check the working status
  • bbPress specific integration

More can be read on the Hyper Cache official page.

You can further optimize the blog installing Autoptimize which cleans up the HTML, minifies and concatenates CSS and JavaScript.

Other plugins by Stefano Lissa:

Screenshots

The main configuration panel

The main configuration panel

Configuration of bypasses (things you want/not want to be cached)

Configuration of bypasses (things you want/not want to be cached)

Plugin Details

Active Installs
8K+
Total Downloads
1,100,228
Version
3.4.4
Requires WP
6.1
Requires PHP
7.0
Tested Up To
6.9.7
Added
2008-04-11
Last Updated
2026-02-03 9:12am GMT

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