A plugin to manage Fastly caching behavior and purging.
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.
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:
Surrogate-Control header to control the expiration time for pagesstale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error Cache-Control directives for managing these special FastlySurrogate-Keys for all pages to provide purging across multiple pages with one commandEach of these items have sane defaults with ways to override them and configure them to your liking.
Additionally, the plugin expose…
| WordPress | 4.2.0+ requiredTested up to 4.3.34 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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