What’s WP Super Cache

There are several great plugins to serve cached pages on your WordPress site. Many top WordPress hosting companies offer built-in caching solutions with their managed WordPress hosting.

If you are on a managed host like WP Engine, then you don’t need to install a caching plugin.

On the other hand, if you are on a shared host, like BlueHost, then you need to install a caching plugin for your WordPress site.

A caching plugin needs to generate cached version of pages without taking too much of your server resources. Most caching plugins generate a cached file when a page is requested for the first time. After that they keep those files stored for a pre-defined duration.

It also needs to work well with your WordPress theme, plugins, and any third-party services you may be using.

WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.

This plugin is a fork of the excellent WP-Cache 2 by Ricardo Galli Granada. WP-Cache 2 caches the pages of your WordPress blog and delivers them without accessing the database. Unfortunately it still means loading the PHP engine to serve the cached files.