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WP File Cache

Description

The plugin implements object level persistent caching and can be used instead of the built in WordPress WP_Object_Cache.
Unlike WP Super Cache, Hyper Cache and other plugins, WP File Cache does not cache the entire page; instead, it caches the data WordPress explicitly asks it to cache (using wp_cache_xxx() API functions).
Although this means that the performance will be less than with, say, WP Super Cache, all your pages remain dynamic.
WP File Cache won’t help you much if the plugins or theme you are using do not use WordPress Cache API. This is by design, since the plugin tries to play nice. However, for most WordPress installations this will not be critical.

WP File Cache significantly reduces the load from your database. Say, my blog’s home page without the plugin executes 24 queries (0.02403 sec); with the plugin enabled, only 4 queries (0.00188 sec).
Unlike DB Cache/DB Cache Reloaded, the plugin will work in the Admin Panel and supports all plugins that use WordPress Cache API.

Please note that WP File Cache shifts the load from your database to your disk/file system and if Disk I/O is a bottleneck, file based caches will not help you.

To get the maximum cache performance, please disable open_basedir in your php.ini — it really slows the things down.

WARNING: chances are that the plugin will not work when PHP safe mode is enabled and web server is operated by a different user than owns the files.

wp-config.php Magic Constants

There is one magic constant, WP_FILE_CACHE_LOW_RAM. When ini_get('memory_limit') - memory_get_usage() becomes less than WP_FILE_CACHE_LOW_RAM, caching gets partially disabled.
This means that the data that are available in the memory cache will still be used but no reads from the files will be performed. This can be useful when you get Out of Memory errors in class.FileCache.php.

By default this feature is turned off but you can enable it with defining

define('WP_FILE_CACHE_LOW_RAM', '4M');

Repleace 4M with your value.

Deactivation/Removal

  1. Please make sure that wp-content directory is writable by the web server: the plugin will need to delete object-cache.php from it.
  2. Deactivate/uninstall the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. Please verify that wp-content/object-cache.php file was removed.

Installation

  1. Upload wp-file-cache folder to the wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Please make sure that wp-content directory is writable by the web server: the plugin will need to copy object-cache.php file into it.
  3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  4. Make sure that wp-content/object-cache.php file exists. If it is not, please copy it from wp-content/plugins/wp-file-cache/object-cache.php
  5. wp-content/object-cache.php file wust me writable by the server since plugin stores its options in that file.
  6. That’s all 🙂

FAQ

After activating the plugin I see an error: “Warning: file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(`filename`) is not within the allowed path(s)”. What to do?

A1: Try to get rid of open_basedir form your php.ini/Apache config. open_basedir is considered a “broken” security measure anyway and only slows down file operations.

A2: If disabling open_basedir is not an option, set the Cache location under the Settings > WP File Cache Options to the directory that satisfies the open_basedir restriction.

The plugins does not work with Custom Field Template plugin.

This is because Custom Field Template maintains its own cache for the post meta data which gets out of sync with WordPress cache. Please add cft_post_meta to the list of the non-persistent groups (Settings > WP File Cache Options)

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Contributors & Developers

“WP File Cache” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.2.9.1 (Dec 16, 2010)

  • Fixed stupid bug

1.2.9 (Dec 15, 2010)

  • Ability to disable caching when memory is low

1.2.8.2 (Apr 8, 2010)

  • Suppress ‘stat failed’ warning for filemtime

1.2.8.1 (Apr 7, 2010)

  • Save options bug fix

1.2.8 (Mar 27, 2010)

  • Added Ukrainian translation (props Andrey K.)
  • Fixed typos in readme.txt

1.2.7 (Mar 12, 2010)

  • Option to always use fresh data in the Admin Panel
  • Added Belarussian translation (props Antsar)

1.2.6 (Mar 6, 2010)

  • Updated FAQ
  • Added an experimental option to partially disable the cache in the Admin panel

1.2.5 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Data to be cached are not passed by reference anymore to ensure there are no side effects
  • Objects are cloned before caching to avoid any side effects

1.2.4 (Feb 14, 2010)

  • Fixed wrong directory name

1.2.3 (Feb 12, 2010)

  • readme.txt bug fix

1.2.2 (Feb 12, 2010)

  • Compatibility with WP 3.0

1.2.1 (Jan 14, 2010)

  • optimized the code, speeded up FileCache class methods by moving all sanity checks to wp_cache_xxx() functions
  • file lock on write
  • less system calls are used
  • compatibility with WordPress 2.6
  • plugin won’t cause WSoD if the plugin is deleted but wp-content/object-cache.php file is not

1.1 (Dec 19, 2009)

  • Fixed serious floating bug in FileCache::get()

1.0 (Dec 2, 2008)

* Really do not remember

0.2.1 (Jun 12, 2008)

  • First public release