Title: Wordfence   Caching
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Wordfence Caching

 *  [davyusa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davyusa/)
 * (@davyusa)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-caching/)
 * Was looking to install this plugin for security but dont fully understand Falcon
   Engine.
 * I’m currently using W3 Total Cache, will this conflict with Wordfence now that
   is also has a caching engine?
 * Is the Falcon caching engine optional?
 * Seems like this should be a separate plugin …
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  [WFSupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/)
 * (@wfsupport)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-caching/#post-5348035)
 * Hi Davy
 * Thanks for using Wordfence.
 * The falcon engine is totally optional. As to whether or not it would clash with
   W3TC? I like to think of it this way. You wouldn’t run two different antiviruses
   on one computer would you? Of course not. Because two antiviruses would step 
   on each other’s toes. The same goes with caching plugins. And since ours is optional,
   you can simply not enable it and use W3TC if you like. I don’t believe I have
   ever heard of anyone having an issue with us and W3TC.
 * Yes, we could have made it a separate plugin but our dev team often finds really
   cool ways to do things while they are hashing things out for new features, etc.
   Falcon kind of came out of that. And we think its a great addition to the suite
   of things we offer. Best of all, it’s free.
 * Did that help answer your question?
 * tim

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