Title: [Plugin: WP Super Cache] why two caching methods?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP Super Cache] why two caching methods?

 *  [ghosttie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghosttie/)
 * (@ghosttie)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-why-two-caching-methods/)
 * I don’t understand why the plugin uses two caching methods. If the supercache
   method is superior then why is the old caching method needed?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/)

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 *  [Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donncha/)
 * (@donncha)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-why-two-caching-methods/#post-843500)
 * The PHP caching is used where a user is logged in or has left a comment.
 *  Thread Starter [ghosttie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghosttie/)
 * (@ghosttie)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-why-two-caching-methods/#post-843511)
 * What’s the advantage of that?
 *  [MegaZone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/megazone/)
 * (@megazone)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-why-two-caching-methods/#post-843578)
 * They get more dynamic/fresher content, but it still is faster and less of a server
   hit than generating the page from scratch. It is a compromise, a midway between
   the static cached pages and real-time generation.

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