WP-Cache, the Untold Way to Set It Up

Thaya Kareeson
Popularity: 36%
Updated: Jun 18, 2008

WP-Cache is a Wordpress plugin that improves your Wordpress speed by caching a static version of each dynamic page request and deliverying that static version for subsequent requests to that page. This in combination with Wordpress internal cache, Apache cache, eAccelerator op code cache, and Varnish proxy cache provides the ultimate setup to combat traffic storms if your article gets dugg. *Note* that there is also a method that helps you turn on WP-Cache on demand (only during traffic storms), but I will discuss that in a later article.

If you’ve ever tried to install the WP-Cache plugin for Wordpress just by uploading to the wp-content/plugins directory and activating it via Wordpress Plugins administration, then you know that 99% of the time that method will not work because of some file permission problems.

Here is the proper way to do it: Read on…