Best varnish plugins for WordPress
The most popular varnish plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Proxy Cache Purge leads with 50K+ active installs, ahead of CLP Varnish Cache (10K+) and Purge Varnish Cache (1K+). All 15 plugins tagged “varnish” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 varnish plugins
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Proxy Cache PurgeThe most installed varnish plugin, with 50K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 26 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
CLP Varnish Cache10K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 7 reviews, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 3.
Purge Varnish Cache1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 10 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 4.
Fastcache by Host.it1K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 15 hours ago.
- 5.
Varnish/Nginx Proxy Caching600+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 10 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 6.
Cacheability100+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
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Zinn® Cache70+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 day ago.
- 8.
MSCache Varnish Purge20+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 4 months ago.
- 9.
Resource Versioning10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
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Is Varnish Working?10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.
All 15 plugins tagged “varnish”
Proxy Cache Purge
Up in the last 7 days:3#760by Danila Vershinin2 months ago
Automatically empty proxy cached content when your site is modified.
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.4(26)
- Downloads
- 384/day
CLP Varnish Cache
Up in the last 7 days:16#2,000by 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
- 105/day
Purge Varnish Cache
Down in the last 7 days:34#5,428by 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
Fastcache by Host.it
Up in the last 7 days:67#6,014by Host.ittoday
FastCache è un plugin WordPress per caching avanzato, CDN e ottimizzazione delle prestazioni, sviluppato e supportato interamente in Italia.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 56/day
Varnish/Nginx Proxy Caching
Down in the last 7 days:18#8,449by 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
- 11/day
Cacheability
Up in the last 7 days:48#14,680by Danila Vershinin1 month ago
HTTP optimization for WordPress. Fixes soft 404 errors and adds smart cache headers.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Zinn® Cache
Up in the last 7 days:1,910#19,016by Zinn Digital®1 day ago
Page cache, Redis object cache and purging for nginx, Varnish, Apache, LiteSpeed and Cloudflare — updates refresh pages gradually, never all at once.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 16/day
MSCache Varnish Purge
Down in the last 7 days:312#25,574by Managedserver.it4 months ago
Purge Varnish cache from the WordPress admin: automatic purge on content changes, exclusions, manual tools and full cache purge.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Resource Versioning
#34,551by Viktor Szépe8 years ago
Turn Query String Parameters into file revision numbers.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Is Varnish Working?
#36,747by Oliver Whysall5 years ago
Test your wordpress url to see if it contains the Varnish Cache HTTP headers
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
UltraCache
Down in the last 7 days:3,731#38,319by Byron Iniotakis2 months ago
WordPress page and Redis/APCu/SQLite object caching, AVIF/WebP, CSS/font and JavaScript optimization, warm-up and major Varnish support.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Flush Opcache with Varnish
Up in the last 7 days:4,816#42,274by johnnyb8 years ago
Flush Opcache with Varnish automatically flushes the PHP Opcache when one of the "Empty Cache" buttons that Mika Epstein's excellent Va …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Smart Varnish
Down in the last 7 days:2,522#46,914by Smartpixels10 years ago
Varnish cache bypass plugin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WPS-Cache
Up in the last 7 days:16,184#56,655by jumaron1 year ago
Boost your WordPress speed with multi-layer caching: HTML, Redis, and Varnish for fast performance.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Performance Cache
#73,751by grouponewp26 days ago
Make your website faster by saving a cached copy of it.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day