Cache-Control
Configurable HTTP Cache-Control response headers for webpages generated by WordPress.
5(6 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 6 years agoAs of April 2026, Cache-Control is a WordPress http plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 99K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 7% this week. Top alternative: Mailgun for WordPress.
5/56 reviews
1.0K+active installs
99K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
Good caching policies is one of performance’s best friends, and it can be your new best friend too. Get friendly with intermediary and browser caches by taking control over your WordPress powered website’s HTTP Cache-Control headers.
This is not a caching plugin in itself, but will enable you to leverage existing standard compliant caching systems better. You can set different policies for different kinds of pages to suite your website’s needs. The Cache-Control for WordPress plugin allows you to set different policies for shared/intermediary and private caches. The plugin sets some sensible defaults for a medium traffic blog that publishes an update or two per week.
You can safely set long Cache-Control times as the max-age values is lowered automatically before a scheduled post is about…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Cool plugin
by Mos Craciun·7 years ago
Nice! Simple and elegant. However, misses some other directives defined in the specification. For example 5.2.2. Response Cache-Control Directives
must install !
by masamis·8 years ago
perfect solution for CDN
- This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by masamis.
Hidden Gem
by Anonymous User 14978628·8 years ago
A very useful plugin if you have your cdn setup to benefit from it as you can set a longer cache expiry time on things that don’t change very often. Also excellent support from plugin developer, and a useful companion website explaining things. Developer really know his stuff, thanks for this excellent plugin!
reducing resources on busy sites
by Marc Kranat·8 years ago
excellent simple method to add cache control headers, which has proved very useful in passing granular caching directives from the site to caching proxy servers.
This is an absolute necessity!
by grantdb·8 years ago
I don’t know why I didn’t use this plugin before rather than fighting with my server includes files and htaccess. With this plugin taking care of the pages generated by WordPress I can concentrate on static files like images, js and css.
Thank you so much!
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.4.1+ requiredTested up to 5.2.24 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.2
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.2.5
- Fix an issue an with how the plugin gets loaded in some situations.
Contributors
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