Best cache purge plugins for WordPress
The most popular cache purge plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Nginx Helper leads with 200K+ active installs, ahead of TNC Toolbox (1K+) and ABCode Improved Caching for 20i StackCache (50+). All 5 plugins tagged “cache purge” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 5 cache purge plugins
- 1.Nginx Helper
The most installed cache purge plugin, with 200K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 31 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
TNC Toolbox1K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 3.
ABCode Improved Caching for 20i StackCache50+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.Cache Autopilot
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 18 hours ago.
- 5.
FlynCache PurgeFewer than 10 active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 1 week ago.
All 5 plugins tagged “cache purge”
Nginx Helper
#258by rtCamp2 months ago
Cleans nginx's fastcgi/proxy cache or redis-cache whenever a post is edited/published. Also does a few more things.
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 4.4(31)
- Downloads
- 1K/day

TNC Toolbox
Up in the last 7 days:42#5,522by Merlot Digital (by TNC)7 months ago
Multi-stack caching for WordPress: ea-NGINX (cPanel) and LiteSpeed (OpenLS/Enterprise). Auto-detects web server!
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 12/day

ABCode Improved Caching for 20i StackCache
Down in the last 7 days:192#20,574by Ash Brentnall | ABCode2 months ago
Purges the full listing hierarchy 20i StackCache leaves stale when you edit a post (homepage, archives and feeds) and rebuilds it.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Cache Autopilot
Down in the last 7 days:205#29,460by ekestotoday
Automatically refreshes affected cached pages after WordPress changes — without manual cache clearing.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

FlynCache Purge
#70,749by Wasim Akram10 days ago
Auto-detect and purge Nginx FastCGI, Redis, LiteSpeed, Cloudflare & CDN caches from one unified interface.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day