As of April 2026, Purge Varnish Cache is a WordPress cache plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 10 reviews. It has been downloaded 56K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 8% this week. Top alternative: WP Super Cache.
5/510 reviews
2.0K+active installs
56K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
Purge Varnish Cache provides integration between your WordPress site and multiple Varnish Cache servers. Purge Varnish Cache sends a PURGE request to the URL of a page or post every time based on configured actions and trigger by site administrator. Varnish is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy.
Features:
* Support on all varnish versions of 3.x, 4.x, 5.x and 6.x
* One time configuration.
* admin-socket integration and Varnish admin interface for status.
* unlimited number of Varnish Cache servers.
* Custom URLs purge.
* User interface for manual purge.
* Single click entire cache purge.
* Debugging.
* Actively maintained.
Requirements: Apache sockets module/extention should be enabled.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Does Exactly What it Should
by stratoextra·1 year ago
Does exactly what it should and still works with WordPress 6.7.2.
Possible malware – images/purge16x16.png
by Igor Kovacic·3 years ago·3 replies
EDIT: Resolved very quick.
We’ve just finished scanning of our website, and malware scanner reported file wp-content/plugins/purge-varnish/images/purge16x16.png
If you open that file in text editor, you’ll notice some Javascript although it’s PNG file.
Please let me know why this file contains suspicious JS.
Everything else is great.
- This topic was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by Yui.
- This topic was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by Igor Kovacic.
- This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by Igor Kovacic. Reason: Changed rating due to issue resolution
Functional and very useful plugin
by pradipktiwari·5 years ago
This Plugin works perfectly now with wordpress version 5.2 and Varnish 6.x, and I’m very happy using it. The only working plugin for me.
Life saver
by escapefromhere·6 years ago·1 reply
Working perfectly, thanks!
Only working plugin for varnish, thank you!
by meken·7 years ago
The only working plugin for me, since Varnish 4 ~ 6.
I am running Apache+php fpm, 7.0~7.2
Download Trends
Today: 7Yesterday: 9This week: 71Period total: 4K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.3.8 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.6
85.0%
v2.5
10.0%
Other
4.9%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.1.4
Fix:
1. PHP 8 error: socket_connect()= 1.1.3 =
Fix:
1. Make it Comptable with WP 6.0.2
Contributors
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