Title: Explain the WordPress Cache please
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Explain the WordPress Cache please

 *  [Phunky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phunky/)
 * (@phunky)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/explain-the-wordpress-cache-please/)
 * Hey guys, im trying to make some of my basic WordPress functions a bit more cache
   friendly, but i have a feel that because my dev server is on a Windows box its
   having a bit of trouble working properly.
 * Can someone explain how the cahce works? i can push the data needed into the 
   $wp_object_cache Object with ease, but it does not seem to keep it there.
 * I think this is due to the fact that WP cant save to the wp-content/cache folder
   on my Windows based Dev box.
 * If someone could just give me a basic idea of what happens to the $wp_object_cache
   object when it does have writeable access that would be great

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 *  [raghuvir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raghuvir/)
 * (@raghuvir)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/explain-the-wordpress-cache-please/#post-421716)
 * hello Friends,
 * [Drivel from the guy with the scabby knuckles removed – Podz]
 *  Thread Starter [Phunky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phunky/)
 * (@phunky)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/explain-the-wordpress-cache-please/#post-421717)
 * You really think your post will stay on here long enough for you to get spider’d
   by search engines ?
 *  [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/)
 * (@petit)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/explain-the-wordpress-cache-please/#post-421879)
 * I don’t know what version of Windows you are using. If it is Win 2000 Server 
   version, I believe you should set write and execute permissions for the web server(
   I guess you use IIS ) on the cache directory.
 * This user, if you didn’t change that, is normally IUSR_your_machine_name, e.g.
   if you named the maching TAURUS, IIS would have the user name IUSR_TAURUS.
    (
   This is the proxy user for the anonymous client/browser ).
 *  Thread Starter [Phunky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phunky/)
 * (@phunky)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/explain-the-wordpress-cache-please/#post-422023)
 * Im not using ISS im just using Apache via XAMPP

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Phunky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phunky/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/explain-the-wordpress-cache-please/#post-422023)
 * Status: not resolved

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