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Purgely

A plugin to manage Fastly caching behavior and purging.

By Zack Tollman·Fastly·Free
5(1 reviews)
·10 active installs·Updated 9 years ago
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As of April 2026, Purgely is a WordPress fastly plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 15K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.2.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Fastly.

5/51 reviews
10active installs
15K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016

Overview

Purgely manages caching behavior for WordPress sites using Fastly as an edge caching solution. The plugin exposes useful
APIs to help control how pages on your site are cached, as well as provides sane defaults to make this a plug and play
solution for Fastly cache management.

The plugin handles the following:

  • Sets the Surrogate-Control header to control the expiration time for pages
  • Sets the stale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error Cache-Control directives for managing these special Fastly
    behaviors
  • Set groups of Surrogate-Keys for all pages to provide purging across multiple pages with one command
  • Provides invalidation of posts and related posts on save

Each of these items have sane defaults with ways to override them and configure them to your liking.

Additionally, the plugin expose…

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Ratings & Reviews

51 reviews
5 ★
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2 ★
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1 ★
0

Compatibility

WordPress4.2.0+ requiredTested up to 4.3.34
PHPfalse+ required

Top Alternatives to Purgely

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51.0K+ installsUpdated 5 months ago
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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.0.1

  • Update key saniziation to allow all capital letters, not just A-B.
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Zack TollmanZack Tollman
Plugin Info
Version
1.0.1
Last Updated
Jun 15, 2016
WP Requires
4.2.0+
Tested Up To
4.3.34
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
10
Downloads
15K+
Added
Jan 11, 2016
Business
Free

Tags

fastlycachingpage cachecache invalidation

Developer

Z
Zack Tollman
6 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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