Plugin / LiteSpeed Cache

Description

LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress (LSCWP) is an all-in-one site acceleration plugin, featuring an exclusive server-level cache and a collection of optimization features.

LSCWP supports WordPress Multisite and is compatible with most popular plugins, including WooCommerce, bbPress, and Yoast SEO.

Requirements

General Features may be used by anyone with any web server (LiteSpeed, Apache, NGiNX, etc.).

LiteSpeed Exclusive Features require OpenLiteSpeed, commercial LiteSpeed products, LiteSpeed-powered hosting, or the new QUIC.cloud CDN, now in beta. Why?

Plugin Features

General Features

• Free QUIC.cloud CDN Cache
• Object Cache (Memcached/LSMCD/Redis)
• Image Optimization (Lossless/Lossy)
• Minify CSS, JavaScript, and HTML
• Minify inline CSS/JS
• Combine CSS/JS
• Automatically generate Critical CSS
• Lazyload images/iframes
• Responsive Image Placeholders
• Multiple CDN support
• Load CSS/JS Asynchronously
• Browser Cache
• Database Cleaner and Optimizer
• PageSpeed score optimization
• OPcode Cache
• HTTP/2 Push for CSS/JS (on web servers that support it)
• DNS Prefetch
• Cloudflare API
• Single Site and Multi Site (Network) support
• Import/Export settings
• Basic/Advanced setting view
• Attractive, easy-to-understand interface
• WebP image format support
• Heartbeat control

LiteSpeed Exclusive Features

• Automatic page caching to greatly improve site performance
• Automatic purge of related pages based on certain events
• Private cache for logged-in users
• Caching of WordPress REST API calls
• Separate caching of desktop and mobile views
• Ability to schedule purge for specified URLs
• WooCommerce and bbPress support
• WordPress CLI commands
• API system for easy cache integration
• Exclude from cache by URI, Category, Tag, Cookie, User Agent
• Smart preload crawler with support for SEO-friendly sitemap
• Multiple crawlers for cache varies
• HTTP/2 & QUIC support*
• ESI (Edge Side Includes) support*
• Widgets and Shortcodes as ESI blocks*

* Feature not available in OpenLiteSpeed

LSCWP Resources

• Join our Slack community to connect with other LiteSpeed users.
• Ask a question on our support forum.
• View detailed documentation on our wiki.
• Read WordPress Wednesday tutorials on our blog.
• Help translate LSCWP.
• LSCWP GitHub repo.

Third Party Compatibility

The vast majority of plugins and themes are compatible with LSCache. Our API is available for those that are not. Use the API to customize smart purging, customize cache rules, create cache varies, and make WP nonce cacheable, among other things.

Privacy

This plugin includes a Privacy blurb that you can add to your site’s Privacy Policy via the WordPress Privacy settings.

For your own information: LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page on display on your site. The pages are stored locally on the system where LiteSpeed server software is installed and are not transferred to or accessed by LiteSpeed employees in any way, except as necessary in providing routine technical support if you request it. All cache files are temporary, and may easily be purged before their natural expiration, if necessary, via a Purge All command. It is up to individual site administrators to come up with their own cache expiration rules.

In addition to caching, our WordPress plugin has an Image Optimization feature. When optimization is requested, images are transmitted to a remote LiteSpeed server, processed, and then transmitted back for use on your site. LiteSpeed keeps copies of optimized images for 7 days (in case of network stability issues) and then permanently deletes them. Similarly, the WordPress plugin has a Reporting feature whereby a site owner can transmit an environment report to our server so that we may better provide technical support. Neither of these features collects any visitor data. Only server and site data is involved.

Please see LiteSpeed’s Privacy Policy for our complete Privacy/GDPR statement.