Best caching plugins for WordPress
The most popular caching plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. LiteSpeed Cache leads with 7M+ active installs, ahead of WP Super Cache (1M+) and Speed Optimizer (1M+). All 128 plugins tagged “caching” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 caching plugins
- 1.
LiteSpeed CacheThe most installed caching plugin, with 7M+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 2,780 reviews, updated 4 days ago.
- 2.
WP Super Cache1M+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 1,346 reviews, updated 6 days ago.
- 3.
Speed Optimizer1M+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 641 reviews, updated 6 days ago.
- 4.
WP-Optimize1M+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 2,616 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 5.
W3 Total Cache900K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 5,420 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 6.
Redis Object Cache500K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 179 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 7.
Breeze Cache300K+ active installs. Rated 3.6 from 134 reviews, updated 6 days ago.
- 8.Cache Enabler
100K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 139 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 9.
Hummingbird Performance70K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 1,488 reviews, updated 5 days ago.
- 10.SpinupWP
30K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 13 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
All 128 plugins tagged “caching”

LiteSpeed Cache
#5by LiteSpeed Technologies4 days ago
All-in-one unbeatable acceleration & PageSpeed improvement: caching, image/CSS/JS optimization...
- Installs
- 7M+
- Rating
- 4.8(2.8K)
- Downloads
- 52.8K/day

WP Super Cache
#36by Automattic6 days ago
A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files.
- Installs
- 1M+
- Rating
- 4.3(1.3K)
- Downloads
- 15K/day

Speed Optimizer
#44by SiteGround6 days ago
Boost your website performance and page speed, and increase conversions with powerful caching, frontend, media, and environment optimizations.
- Installs
- 1M+
- Rating
- 4.2(641)
- Downloads
- 5.6K/day

WP-Optimize
#53by David Anderson / Team Updraft1 month ago
Get caching and more with this powerful cache plugin. Cache, optimize images, clean your database and minify for maximum performance.
- Installs
- 1M+
- Rating
- 4.8(2.6K)
- Downloads
- 6.7K/day

W3 Total Cache
#73by BoldGrid18 days ago
Search Engine (SEO) & Performance Optimization (WPO) via caching. Integrated caching: CDN, Page, Minify, Object, Fragment, Database support.
- Installs
- 900K+
- Rating
- 4.4(5.4K)
- Downloads
- 11K/day

Redis Object Cache
Up in the last 7 days:3#120by Till Krüss1 month ago
A persistent object cache backend powered by Redis®¹. Supports Predis, PhpRedis, Relay, replication, sentinels, clustering and WP-CLI.
- Installs
- 500K+
- Rating
- 4.5(179)
- Downloads
- 13.2K/day

Breeze Cache
Down in the last 7 days:3#163by Cloudways6 days ago
Breeze is a caching plugin developed by Cloudways. Breeze uses advance caching systems to improve site loading times exponentially.
- Installs
- 300K+
- Rating
- 3.6(134)
- Downloads
- 7.9K/day
Cache Enabler
Up in the last 7 days:11#404by KeyCDN1 month ago
A lightweight caching plugin for WordPress that makes your website faster by generating static HTML files.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.3(139)
- Downloads
- 1.3K/day

Hummingbird Performance
Up in the last 7 days:1#597by WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform5 days ago
Optimize PageSpeed Performance & Core Web Vitals, Advanced Cache, Minify CSS & JavaScript, Inline Critical CSS, Defer CSS & JS, Smush & Lazy Load, CDN
- Installs
- 70K+
- Rating
- 4.7(1.5K)
- Downloads
- 506/day
SpinupWP
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,023by Brad Touesnard1 month ago
SpinupWP is a modern server control panel that's here to help you implement best practices for every server you spin up. Designed for WordPress.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 5.0(13)
- Downloads
- 472/day
WP Meteor Website Speed Optimization Addon
#1,387by Aleksandr Guidrevitch1 month ago
2x-5x improvement in your Page Speed score. A completely new way of optimizing your page speed.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.7(77)
- Downloads
- 151/day
Instant Back/Forward
Down in the last 7 days:5#1,673by Weston Ruter1 month ago
Enables back/forward cache (bfcache) for instant history navigations even when “nocache” headers are sent, such as when a user is logged in.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 115/day
Server-Side Cache AutoPurge
Up in the last 7 days:7#1,807by suresupport4 months ago
Purge server-side cache automatically after making website changes. Optimized for servers managed by SureSupport.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 44/day

Prevent Browser Caching
Down in the last 7 days:11#1,875by Kostya Tereshchuk25 days ago
Prevents browser cache problems: visitors always get the current version of your CSS, JS, images and pages, while caching keeps working.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(29)
- Downloads
- 145/day

CLP Varnish Cache
Up in the last 7 days:2#2,003by CloudPanel7 months ago
CLP Varnish Cache lets you configure the cache lifetime, paths, and parameters to exclude from caching. You can purge single urls or cache entries by …
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 101/day

Cachify
#2,286by pluginkollektiv1 year ago
Smart, efficient cache solution for WordPress. Use DB, HDD, Redis or Memcached for storing your blog pages. Make WordPress faster!
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.7(47)
- Downloads
- 41/day

Clear All Cache for WP Super Cache
Up in the last 7 days:1#2,797by apasionados9 months ago
Clear all cache for WP Super Cache adds a menu entry to the admin menu to clear the cache completely .
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 3.1(11)
- Downloads
- 33/day

Surge
Up in the last 7 days:65#3,182by Konstantin Kovshenin6 months ago
Surge is a very simple and fast page caching plugin for WordPress.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.9(31)
- Downloads
- 45/day
Solid Performance
Down in the last 7 days:2#3,315by Nexcess24 days ago
Solid Performance is a no-code solution for increasing the page performance of your WordPress website.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 76/day

FastPixel Cache
Up in the last 7 days:8#3,377by ShortPixel3 days ago
Optimize Core Web Vitals and PageSpeed with advanced caching, image compression, lazy loading, critical CSS, and CDN – the ultimate performance tool.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.8(50)
- Downloads
- 190/day

Fresh Forms for Gravity
Down in the last 7 days:5#4,054by Samuel Aguilera5 months ago
Prevent supported caching and JS optimization plugins breaking Gravity Forms.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.8(8)
- Downloads
- 23/day
DB Cache Reloaded Fix
Down in the last 7 days:13#4,707by Ivan Kristianto9 years ago
The fastest cache engine for WordPress, that produces cache of database queries with easy configuration. Compatible with WordPress 3.4
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.3(12)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Speed Kit
Down in the last 7 days:33#5,032by baqend2 years ago
Speed Kit makes your WordPress website load instantly with one simple click.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.0(11)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Purge Varnish Cache
Down in the last 7 days:31#5,419by Dsingh5 months ago
Clean clear VARNISH cache automatically when content on your site is created or modified, also allow you to purge VARNISH cache manually.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 22/day
MO Cache
Down in the last 7 days:29#5,538by m4i9 years ago
Improving the site performance by caching translation files using the WordPress standard cache mechanism.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Cache-Control
Down in the last 7 days:6#5,565by Dan7 years ago
Configurable HTTP Cache-Control response headers for webpages generated by WordPress.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 37/day
App for Cloudflare®
Down in the last 7 days:18#5,598by digitalpoint26 days ago
All things Cloudflare (caching, flexible SSL, Turnstile, settings, rules, analytics, media in R2, image transforms [AVIF, WebP], secure admin area).
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.7(14)
- Downloads
- 40/day

The Cache Purger
Down in the last 7 days:352#6,603by Kevin Pirnie2 months ago
Automatically purge every server-side cache on your WordPress site — plugins, hosting environments, PHP, memory stores, and CDNs — all from one place.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.5(6)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Avatar Privacy
Down in the last 7 days:35#6,640by pepe3 years ago
Enhances the privacy of your users and visitors with gravatar opt-in and local avatars.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(25)
- Downloads
- 14/day
Cache External Scripts
Up in the last 7 days:1#7,485by Voorsie7 years ago
Save the Google Analytics file (gtag.js / analytics.js) locally to be able to cache it for longer than 2 hours for a better PageSpeed score!
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(25)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Varnish/Nginx Proxy Caching
Down in the last 7 days:28#8,460by Razvan Stanga7 years ago
Wordpress Varnish Cache 3.x/4.x/5.x and Nginx Proxy Cache integration
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 14/day

Cache control by Cacholong
Down in the last 7 days:10#9,026by Preliot4 months ago
“Cache control by Cacholong” is a cache control plugin for one or more Nginx servers.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Menu Caching
Up in the last 7 days:62#9,141by Theo Gkitsos2 months ago
This plugin caches WordPress classic menus to improve page loading time.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Cache Using Gzip
Up in the last 7 days:108#9,616by Mark Nokes1 month ago
Lightweight WordPress caching with gzip compression for faster page loads — no complicated settings.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 13/day

Cleavr Clear Cache
Up in the last 7 days:118#9,966by cleavrdev10 months ago
Manage NGINX FastCGI cache for Cleavr sites. Add a clear cache hook to clear cache with one click or automatically when content updates.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP Static Pages
Up in the last 7 days:19#10,745by simonyip8 years ago
Generate Static HTML files from pages, so these sites will be 10x faster than non-static.This plugin supports posts, categories and products also.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

NextGenThemes jsDelivr CDN
Down in the last 7 days:30#11,051by Nicolas Jonas2 months ago
Free CDN for for all assets from wordpress.org Github and NPM.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day

WP SpeedUp
Up in the last 7 days:51#11,333by Fahad Mahmood11 days ago
A great plugin which helps you to speed up your WordPress website from all aspects — CSS, JS, images, caching, database, cron jobs, and more.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.1(9)
- Downloads
- 13/day
Widget Output Cache
Down in the last 7 days:27#11,473by Kaspars10 days ago
Improve website performance by caching widget output in WordPress transients.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.9(7)
- Downloads
- 12/day

No Cache AJAX Widgets
Down in the last 7 days:130#11,521by Nirmal Kumar Ram2 months ago
Add AJAX powered widgets to your site. Serve fresh and dynamic content from any widget areas. Resolves common caching related issues.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Uncache Script
Down in the last 7 days:18#11,641by todiadiyatmo11 years ago
Force your scripts and style to uncache
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Perform
Up in the last 7 days:4#11,971by Mehul Gohil3 months ago
Optimize WordPress performance with asset controls, page caching, CDN rewriting, and cleanup tools.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Country Caching For WP Super Cache
Up in the last 7 days:1#12,108by wrigs15 years ago
Extends WP Super Cache to cache by page/visitor country instead of just page. Solves "wrong country content" Geo-Location issues.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.3(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Voce Cached Nav
Down in the last 7 days:424#14,329by Kevin Langley Jr.11 years ago
Serve cached copies of WordPress navigation menus
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

SpeedyGo
Up in the last 7 days:36#14,905by Code and core25 days ago
Optimize your WordPress site with advanced caching, minification, and performance tools for faster loading.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Vendi Cache
Down in the last 7 days:35#15,964by cjhaas9 years ago
Vendi Cache is a disk-based cache plugin derived from Wordfence's caching engine.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Sunny
Up in the last 7 days:16#16,697by Tang Rufus8 years ago
Automatically purge Cloudflare cache, including cache everything rules.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.2(23)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Gcore CDN
Down in the last 7 days:243#17,004by gcorewpress3 years ago
Gcore Plugin
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 2.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Redis Page Cache
#17,319by Pressjitsu6 years ago
A Redis-backed full page caching plugin for WordPress, extremely flexible and fast.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Serve Static
#17,366by Rajin Sharwar1 year ago
Serve Static is a static HTML page generator WordPress plugin to create and serve static copies of your existing web pages to avoid PHP/DB load.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 4.4(9)
- Downloads
- 6/day