Comet Cache
Author: WP Sharks Author URI: https://cometcache.com Contributors: WebSharks, JasWSInc, raamdev, clavaque Donate link: https://cometcache.
4.4(108 reviews)
·20K+ active installs·Updated 9 months agoAs of April 2026, Comet Cache is a WordPress WordPress plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 108 reviews. It has been downloaded 505K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Download volume is stable this week.
4.4/5108 reviews
20K+active installs
505K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
If you care about the speed of your site, Comet Cache is one of those plugins that you absolutely MUST have installed 🙂 Comet Cache takes a real-time snapshot (building a cache) of every Page, Post, Category, Link, etc. These snapshots are then stored (cached) intuitively, so they can be referenced later, in order to save all of that processing time that has been dragging your site down and costing you money.
The Comet Cache plugin uses configuration options that you select from the options panel. See: Comet Cache -› Options in your Dashboard. Once a file has been cached, Comet Cache uses advanced techniques that allow it to recognize when it should and should not serve a cached version of the file. By default, Comet Cache does not serve cached pages to users who are logged in, or to use…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
dead project
by Francesco·2 years ago
dead project, period.
It’s never been developed since 2017… cause the 170220 update was posted on Facebook in February 2017
- This topic was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Francesco.
- This topic was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata). Reason: removed link
Good product!
by ryazhari·4 years ago
I have used this product on a couple of websites I have built and have had positive results, however after a few days of operation, on one of the websites, the product would produce a visible text error on top of the home page of one of the websites I used it on. This was regardless of the way I configured it, and the cache had to be flushed to resume normal operation.
This plugin also has paid versions that add some capability to an already good product.
I eventually switched to a different product as my standard for commercial websites, but still believe this product to be one of the better cache plugins on WordPress.org. It is a good product, and I recommend downloading the latest free version and running it for a few days to determine compatibility with your specific website!
Super smooth plugin, A+
by wpenthusiast7·5 years ago
Perfect for a site with static pages (e.g. with no user comments, etc), it generates html pages on the fly, super fast, good results in google speed test.
Für mich Leider nicht zu gebrauchen
by getin2magic·5 years ago
Funktioniert als “stand alone Anwendung” gut, also ohne andere Pugins. Eigentlich nicht das was ich mir von einem Cache Plug und einem “Pro Plug-In” erwartet hätte.
Macht Probleme mit MonsterInsights Pro und dem blog2social Plug z.B.
Was auch noch ein ganz großes Minus ist, es findet keine wirkliche Admin-Warnung statt, so als selbst-Test so zu sagen, ob das Plugin fehlerfrei läuft oder nicht.
- This topic was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by getin2magic.
Awesome Plugin but pity its been abandoned by Author
by kailashaddanki·5 years ago
Comet Cache is the most easiest to use and setup caching plugin which sped up many of my clients sites which were lagging real bad when none of the other caching solutions were working properly out of the box. Its such a pity that perhaps the best caching plugin for wordpress has been abandoned by its developers, i wish we could do something to help !
Download Trends
Today: 12Yesterday: 26This week: 115Period total: 11K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.2+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v170220
98.8%
Other
1.2%
Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
v170220
- New Feature: Comet Cache can now be configured to automatically clear the cache for date-based archive views whenever any single post is cleared due to changes in content, title, etc. See: Dashboard → Comet Cache → Plugin Options → Automatic Cache Clearing → Auto-Clear “Date-Based Archives” Too?. See also: Issue #724.
- New Pro Feature: Apache Optimizations now include a new option that allows site owners to enforce an exact host name for all requests. See: Dashboard → Comet Cache Pro → Plugin Options → Apache Optimizations → Enforce an Exact Host Name?. See also: Issue #101.
- Bug Fix: Apache detection sometimes inaccurate. So instead of using default WP core globals for server detection, Comet Cache now uses it’s own set of Apache/Nginx/IIS detection functions. And, this release enhances our Apache and Nginx detection routines; making them smart enough to catch additional edge cases; i.e., to further reduce the likelihood of there being a false-positive. See Issue #748.
- Bug Fix: Some XML-RPC and REST API requests were being cached inadvertently. See Issue #855.
- Bug Fix: Broken textarea field due to
white-space:nowrapin Firefox. See Issue #866.
…and 5 more changes
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