Far Future Expiry Header
This plugin will add a far future expiry header for various file types to improve page load speed of your site
3.2(31 reviews)
·7.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Far Future Expiry Header is a WordPress cache plugin with 7.0K+ active installations and a 3.2/5 rating from 31 reviews. It has been downloaded 230K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Downloads are up 40% this week. Top alternative: WP-Optimize – Cache, Compress images….
3.2/531 reviews
7.0K+active installs
230K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
This plugin offers a few lightweight features to speed up your WordPress site without much hassle.
Far Future Expiry
When the feature is enabled, this plugin will modify your .htaccess file by inserting code which will add expires headers for common static file types.
Expiry header specifies a time far enough in the future so that browsers won’t try to re-fetch images, CSS, javascript etc files that haven’t changed (this reduces the number of HTTP requests) and hence the performance improvement on subsequent page views.
Gzip Compression
You can also enable Gzip compression on your site using this plugin. Gzip compression will speed up your WordPress site by compressing the page output and sending it to your visitors browser.
When enabled, the plugin will do gzip compression if…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
dont work
by karalambos·10 months ago·1 reply
i dont see any improvement on speed
Broke My Site
by Waspy·1 year ago·1 reply
Plugin causes an Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator at to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
- This topic was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by Waspy.
Working very well
by dspplug·4 years ago·1 reply
I combined speed of light, far future, ssl insecure content fixer, strano ajax login, gtranslate, sonaar mp3 music player pro, telemetry disable, easy digital downloads, Disable XML-RPC-API, kama click counter, url shortener by mythemeshop, and even though I put My products on the front page – I lost about 1.5 seconds off My score by using this in tandem with speed of light.
- This topic was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by dspplug.
didn’t work for me
by msephton·6 years ago·2 replies
expiry was still a problem after successful activation of plugin
- This topic was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by msephton.
errors
by Alex Plot·6 years ago·1 reply
I don’t recommend this plugin
Download Trends
Today: 37Yesterday: 24This week: 127Period total: 5K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.6
71.8%
v1.4
17.9%
v1.5
7.7%
v1.3
2.6%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.6
- PHP 8.2 compatibility related update.
Contributors
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