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Hyper Cache

Hyper Cache is a performant and easy to configure cache system for WordPress.

By Stefano Lissa·Cache·Free
4.5(82 reviews)
·9.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 months ago
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As of April 2026, Hyper Cache is a WordPress cache plugin with 9.0K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 82 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.1M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.1+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2008. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: WP-Optimize – Cache, Compress images….

4.5/582 reviews
9.0K+active installs
100%resolved
18 yearssince 2008

Overview

Hyper Cache is a cache plugin specifically written to get the maximum speed for your WordPress blog.

It can be used in low resources hosting as well on high end servers.

Hyper Cache is purely PHP and works on every blog: no complex configurations are needed and when you deactivate it no stale settings are left around.

Short list of features:

  • HTTPS ready
  • Able to serve expired pages to bots to increase the perceived blog speed by bots
  • Manages compression even on the fly for non cached pages
  • Lots of configurable bypasses: matching cookies, matching urls, user agents, …
  • Comments aware: is able to serve cached pages even to visitors who commented the blog (perfect for blog with great readers paritipation)
  • Cache folder can be moved outside your blog space to exclude it from backups
  • Contr…
Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

4.582 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Прекрасно
by NightFlash·2 years ago

С этим плагином нагрузка на сервер в разы меньше, а сама скорость загрузки страниц значительно выросла. Они загружаются просто моментально!

Simply faster
by Christian Gäking·3 years ago

Really well coded plugin, improved pagespeed for google from 86 to 93 compared to lightspeed cache. Simple and reliable.

Just Works and Works Great, Thank You !!
by treecutter·4 years ago

Hyper Cache just works for us, and does exactly what we want.

Code is very lightweight, simple to install and even easier to use.

Very decent plugin indeed, thank you to the developer

Excellent.
by bloup·6 years ago

Hyper cache is an little known excellent cache plugin for wordpress.

This is the only free plugin I am aware of that is capable of creating two separate caches for your website. One for your mobile version and one for your desktop version.
It is great for those like me who have a wordpress theme that is not responsive.
My theme delivers a mobile menu for mobile phones and a desktop menu for desktops.
I needed a version of a page to display the mobile menu and another version to display the desktop menu.

I used WP super cache. It didn’t work because it had no separated cache.
I bought WP rocket. It stored two versions but Googlebot for smartphone returned issues when it scanned a page of my website.

It is simple. It can be set up in 30 seconds. There aren’t any useless settings.

It only works with PHP, it means several things.

it means that this plugin will never mess up your HTACCESS and create strange behavior due to rewrite directives since there is NO rewrite directives. Your HTACCESS remain CLEAN just like when your mother clean the toilets.

You activate it and it works.
Googlebot for smartphone love it and does not return any errors. I love to read no loading issues.

  • This topic was modified 6 years ago by bloup.
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by Pierre236·6 years ago

I install it in one website because i have bug with other plugin, i just thing it’s normal cache like other, but after i don’t understand why this website are more speed than my other, then i install it in other, replace other famous caching, and can see miracle, green color on page speed test!

Thanks a lot

Download Trends

Today: 28Yesterday: 31This week: 195Period total: 8K

Compatibility

WordPress6.1+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHP7.0+ required

Version Adoption

v3.4
66.6%
v3.3
20.2%
v3.2
7.4%
Other
5.9%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

3.4.4

  • Readme changes
  • Removed separated mobile cache (obsolete)
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Stefano LissaStefano Lissa
Plugin Info
Version
3.4.4
Last Updated
Feb 3, 2026
WP Requires
6.1+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
7.0+
Active Installs
9.0K+
Downloads
1.1M+
Added
Apr 11, 2008
Business
Free

Tags

cachespeedperformance

Developer

S
Stefano Lissa
15 plugins0.5M+ total installs
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