Pods Alternative Cache
Pods Alternative Cache is a file-based or database-based caching solution for hosts that have limitations on object caching.
4.3(6 reviews)
·5.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 month agoAs of April 2026, Pods Alternative Cache is a WordPress pods plugin with 5.0K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 61K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.3+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields.
4.3/56 reviews
5.0K+active installs
61K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
Pods Alternative Cache provides optimal performance with Pods sites on hosts with no object caching or low limits. It was developed for and tested on the WPEngine platform to improve performance of cached objects generated from Pods, but it works on numerous other hosting providers.
Pods Alternative Cache is a great addition to a site already utilizing Object Caching, it further separates and allows Pods to utilize more consistent persistent caching without affecting other plugins and WordPress caching objects. Especially when utilizing larger configurations, this plugin improves performance by ensuring other necessary objects are not removed by the server to make room for Pods cached objects.
This plugin requires the Pods Framework version 2.4 or later to run.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Removes Pod Page Template Field!
by Dennis Bareis·3 years ago·4 replies
PODS itself is great, this looks like crap, the only thing it seems to do is prevent proper editing of “POD Pages” as the template selection and other fields are gone!
Excellent
by thdnunes·7 years ago
It helped me to clean up the autoloaded data in the wp_options table.
Before: 0.775MB
After: 0.065MB
Fantastic!
by Nic Ford·9 years ago
A site we built was totally grinding to a halt on our BlueHost shared hosting account when we started getting traffic over a few hundred sessions. Other caching options weren’t working and Pods Alt Cache did the trick! After setting up the cache parameters, it very quickly resolved the issue. Great file-based solution for server configurations that don’t offer customized control over object/mem caching.
Helped me with caching issue on GoDaddy's host
by bubencode·10 years ago
Works like a charm!
I had to disable object caching on one site due to inconsistency of GoDaddy’s caching with another plugin (Google Calendar Events).
After renaming of the /wp-content/object-cache.php file (to just make object caching not function) – PODS ended in Fatal Error crashing the entire website:
Cannot call overloaded function for non-object in …/general.php on line 230
Then I spotted this cute “Pods Alternative Cache” plugin, installed it and made the trick with object caching disabling again. Keeping my breath I reloaded my website and ALL WORKED! Now both PODS and GCal Event are functioning with no errors.
Thank you guys very much for creating this addition to your beautiful PODS framework!
Works fine, excellent
by General Seed·11 years ago
Works fine, excellent, five starts, keep updated.
Thanks 🙂
Download Trends
Today: 37Yesterday: 60This week: 283Period total: 16K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.3+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
| Dependencies | pods |
Version Adoption
v2.3
53.7%
v2.2
39.2%
v2.1
7.2%
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Changelog
2.3 – February 24th, 2026
- New minimum requirement: WordPress 6.3+
- Fixed: Tested on WP 7.0 (@sc0ttkclark)
- Fixed: Resolved Plugin Checker issues across codebase. (@sc0ttkclark)
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