Ultimate 5 Caching Plugins for WordPress Users

The users like to browse fast loading websites and is also considered best for the search engine ranking. There multiple ways to boost your WordPress website, one of which includes selecting best web hosting plugin.

Here we discuss important plugins WordPress cache plugins that can boost your WordPress powered site and blogs.

But before you pick any WordPress cache plugin, make sure to take important consideration regarding your hosting and server configuration. For instance,  W3 total cache plugin works best with VPS or dedicated servers, whereas Super cache or hyper cache is considered best for shared hosting. Of course, there is no thumb of a rule here, but I have tried to explain some of the main advantages of these WordPress cache plugins. You may pick any of this plugin making sure that it matches with your server environment.

Here we go!

1. WP Fastest Cache 


WP Fastest Cache is one of the powerful caching plugin enriched with a variety of excellent features. Similar to other caching plugins, it creates static versions of the dynamic files. Moreover, the plugin does not clutter the WordPress admin section with multiple options.

The plugin uses the simple tabbed system by providing access to the caching options. The plugin settings can be done by clicking on the ‘WP Fastest Cache‘ menu of your website dashboard. It can be accessed in several different languages, and there is also a premium version which supports many additional features.



2. WP Super Cache


WP Super Cache is one of the most recommended WordPress caching plugins. It is very simple to install, use and can give you a good performance boost. It helps in generating HTML files from your dynamic blog and provides gzip compression. This gives its users the leverage to use your sub domain as a CDN in WP Super Cache for using HTML files like Image, Javascript and CSS.

This plugin is considered best for new users.

3.  W3 Total Cache


 It is one of the advanced cache plugins which works out of the box and offers advance caching mechanism. It is used by most of the popular Websites like Mashable, Smashing Magazine, etc. Its configuration may require little technical skills. The latest version of this cache plugin offers integration with CloudFlare. CDN can be easily configured with this plugin.

Some more notable feature of this top WordPress cache plugin are:
(a) Page cache
(b) Database Caching
(c) Minify CSS, JS
(d) CDN
(e) CloudFlare
(f) Works best with VPS and Dedicated hosting but works with Shared hosting too
(g) Caching of search results page

4. Hyper Cache



Hyper Cache is a quick and easy to configure cache system for WordPress users. It can be used on low resources hosting as well on high-end servers.

Some of its excellent features are:
(a) HTTPS ready
(b) CDN support
(c) bypassing caching for mobile devices or use a separate cache.
(d) Supports 404 error page
(e) Works well with plugins that add custom post types, such as bbPress.
         
5. Zen Cache  

 

Zen Cache is formerly called as Quick Cache. It is considered as an ideal choice to increase the loading speed of your website. Zen Cache takes real time snapshots of every page, post, link and caches them intuitively. It has advanced techniques to determine when it should send a cached version.

It automatically sets expiration times for cache files and allows a double-cache. The best of Zen Cache plugin is that it caches 404 error requests to reduce the impact on the server. And it is also WP-CLI compatible.

Wrapping up
There are many more WordPress cache plugins which can be added to this list. But here I have kept the list short and easy to pick. I would love to know which cache plugin are you using to fasten your WordPress blog?

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