Title: AKantio Cache Author: supportakantio Published: November 10, 2026 Last modified: November 10, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/akache/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3795448) ![](https://ps.w.org/akache/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3795448) # AKantio Cache By [supportakantio](https://profiles.wordpress.org/supportakantio/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/akache.1.4.1.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/akache/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/akache/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/akache/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/akache/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/akache/) ## Description * Page cache served before WordPress loads, with optional server rules (Apache/ LiteSpeed and an nginx snippet) that serve pages without PHP. * Smart purge and background preload when content, comments, terms, WooCommerce stock/prices, ACF fields, page-builder templates or translations change. * Never caches logged-in users, carts, checkouts, account pages, previews or responses that set cookies. * Redis object cache drop-in with TLS, ACL users, igbinary, LZF/Zstandard compression, metrics and a circuit breaker that keeps the site fast when Redis is down. * Optimizations: CSS/JS minify, defer or delay JavaScript, lazy loading, image dimensions, font-display swap, self-hosted Google Fonts and CDN assets, YouTube click-to-load, link prefetching, CDN URL rewrite and bloat removal. * Database cleanup on a schedule or on demand. * Cloudflare integration for your own zone and purge integrations for common hosting caches. * Optional: connect to AKantio for managed Redis and a managed CDN, configured automatically. Every feature in the plugin works without an account and without paying: use your own Redis server and your own CDN. Managed Redis and the managed CDN are optional paid services run by AKantio outside the plugin. All settings are made in WP Admin AKantio Cache. To run the page cache, WordPress needs the WP_CACHE constant, so the plugin adds one marked line to wp-config.php and removes it when the page cache is turned off or the plugin is deactivated. If wp-config.php already sets WP_CACHE, the plugin leaves it as it is. Hosts can stop the plugin writing to wp-config.php with the akantio_cache_wpconfig_readonly filter; the line can then be added by hand. #### Source code The admin screens are a React app. The compiled files in `build/` are made from the human-readable sources in `admin-src/`, which are included in the plugin together with `package.json`. To rebuild them: `npm install` then `npm run build`. The PHP code is not compiled; its single library (matthiasmullie/minify) is installed by Composer from `composer.json`. ### External services The plugin works on its own. It contacts the services below only for the features you turn on. #### AKantio (managed services) Used only after you connect the site to AKantio (Managed services Connect), to configure managed Redis and the managed CDN; and, without connecting, when you open the Managed services screen, to show the available plans. * Opening the Managed services screen: the plan list is downloaded from akache. akantio.com. No site data is sent. * Connecting: the site address, WordPress address and the versions of the plugin, WordPress, PHP, WooCommerce and the PHP Redis extension. * While connected: the managed Redis and CDN settings are downloaded; after each sync and once a day, a health report is sent (versions, whether Redis, the page cache and the CDN are in use, and setup problem codes); CDN purge requests list the URLs that changed; once a week, the time to connect to each Redis region is measured from your server and sent, so AKantio can recommend the closest region. * Disconnecting deletes the site’s keys at AKantio. Managed Redis databases are hosted by Redis Cloud (Redis Ltd.) and the managed CDN runs on Cloudflare, on AKantio’s accounts. Cached data stays in your Redis database; static files are served through the CDN. AKantio terms: https://akantio.com/terms/ — privacy policy: https://akantio.com/ privacy/ #### Cloud provider endpoints (region latency) While connected to AKantio, the plugin opens a TCP connection (and closes it right away) to a public endpoint of each Redis region’s cloud provider, for example ec2. eu-west-1.amazonaws.com, to time it. No data is sent. Amazon Web Services: https:// aws.amazon.com/service-terms/ and https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/ ; Google Cloud: https://cloud.google.com/terms and https://policies.google.com/privacy ; Microsoft Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/ and https://www.microsoft. com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement #### Cloudflare (your own zone) Used only when you enter your own Cloudflare API token and zone ID. The plugin calls api.cloudflare.com to purge changed URLs and, if you turn it on, to manage the HTML cache rule of your zone. Sent: your API token (as authorization), the zone ID and the URLs to purge. Terms: https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/ — privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/ #### Google Fonts, public CDNs and Gravatar (self-hosting) These features do the opposite of offloading: they remove a remote dependency that a page of your site already has. Off by default. The plugin does not add any of these files, and no AKantio account is involved. Each file is downloaded once from the address your page already uses, then served from wp-content/cache/akantio on your own site, and the page no longer calls the remote server. If a download fails, the page keeps its original address. Used only when you turn on “Self-host Google Fonts”, “Self-host third-party scripts and styles” or “Self-host Gravatars”. The plugin downloads the files your pages already load from fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com; cdn.jsdelivr.net, cdnjs.cloudflare.com, unpkg.com, code.jquery.com, ajax.googleapis.com, use.fontawesome. com, maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com; or gravatar.com, and serves them from your site, so your visitors no longer contact these services. Only the file address is requested. Google: https://policies.google.com/terms and https:// policies.google.com/privacy ; jsDelivr: https://www.jsdelivr.com/terms ; cdnjs ( Cloudflare): https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/ ; unpkg: https://unpkg.com; jQuery CDN (OpenJS Foundation): https://openjsf.org/terms and https://openjsf.org/ privacy ; Font Awesome: https://fontawesome.com/support ; BootstrapCDN (jsDelivr): https://www.jsdelivr.com/terms ; Gravatar (Automattic): https://wordpress.com/tos/ and https://automattic.com/privacy/ #### YouTube (click-to-load) When “YouTube click-to-load” is on, embedded YouTube videos are replaced by their preview image from i.ytimg.com; the player from youtube-nocookie.com loads only when a visitor clicks play. These videos were already embedded by your content; the plugin only delays them. Terms: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms — privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy ## Screenshots [⌊Dashboard: cache status, hit rate and what to do next.⌉⌊Dashboard: cache status, hit rate and what to do next.⌉[ Dashboard: cache status, hit rate and what to do next. [⌊Page cache settings.⌉⌊Page cache settings.⌉[ Page cache settings. [⌊Redis object cache with connection test and metrics.⌉⌊Redis object cache with connection test and metrics.⌉[ Redis object cache with connection test and metrics. [⌊File optimization.⌉⌊File optimization.⌉[ File optimization. [⌊Database cleanup with backup reminder.⌉⌊Database cleanup with backup reminder.⌉[ Database cleanup with backup reminder. ## Installation 1. In Plugins Add New, search for “AKantio Cache”, install and activate it (or upload the ZIP). 2. Open AKantio Cache in the admin menu and turn on the features you want. ## FAQ ### My site broke after enabling a feature. How do I recover? Turn the feature off in AKantio Cache. If you cannot reach the admin, delete wp- content/advanced-cache.php (page cache) or wp-content/object-cache.php (Redis): WordPress then runs without them. ### Do I need an AKantio account? No. Page cache, preload, optimizations, the Redis object cache with your own Redis server, CDN rewriting, Cloudflare and database cleanup all work without an account. An account is only needed for the optional managed Redis and managed CDN. ### Should I back up before a database cleanup? Yes. Cleanups permanently delete revisions, drafts, trashed items, spam comments and expired transients. The plugin asks you to confirm before an on-demand cleanup. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “AKantio Cache” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ supportakantio ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/supportakantio/) [Translate “AKantio Cache” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/akache) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/akache/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/akache/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/akache/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/akache/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.4.1 * Changed: the click-to-load YouTube assets and the loader of delayed scripts are enqueued the WordPress way. On a theme that does not call wp_footer(), iframes and scripts are now left as they are. * Changed: another plugin’s drop-in, replaced on request, is kept in the database instead of as a file next to it. * Database cleanup: a warning to back up your database first, and a confirmation before an on-demand cleanup runs. * “Self-host Google Fonts” is now off until you turn it on (Optimization), so the plugin contacts no outside service by default. * Tested with WordPress 7.1; requires WordPress 6.5 or later. #### 1.4.0 * Measures the latency from your server to each Redis region so the portal can recommend the closest one. #### 1.3.0 * Plans: see AKantio’s plans on the Managed services screen and subscribe from WordPress. * New Expert services screen: performance optimization, consulting, custom development and migration. #### 1.2.0 * Connect with AKantio from the Managed services screen; managed Redis and CDN configure themselves. * Health reports after each sync, so AKantio can email you the fix when a managed service is not in use. * Setup problems link to the AKantio setup guide. #### 1.0.0 * First release. ## Meta * Version **1.4.1** * Last updated **2 days ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.5 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.4** * PHP version ** 8.1 or higher ** * Tags * [cache](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/cache/)[object cache](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/object-cache/) [page cache](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/page-cache/)[performance](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/performance/) [redis](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/redis/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/akache/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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