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APCu Manager

by Pierre Lannoy · Performance

Also makes 11 other plugins · 14.8K+ installs across the portfolio →

APCu statistics and management right in the WordPress admin dashboard.

How scoring works →
87 Health · A
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 84/100
Support 70/100

87 health vs 67 average across 1,075 Performance plugins

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

91 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Support resolution

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 78/100
Listing tuning 100/100
Support resolution 67/100

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-14% vs prior 30d
71Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

3.9K

now · peak 12.7K

3.9K30d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

APCu Manager · #1975 you SQLite Object Cache · #2105 Object Cache for APC · #11890 Docket Cache · #1208

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.6Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

390per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Actively maintained
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

6

releases in the last 12 months

2mo ago

latest release · v4.5.3

45

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

4.5.3 · 2mo ago4.5.2 · 2mo ago4.5.1 · 2mo ago4.5.0 · 3mo ago4.4.0 · 5mo ago4.3.0 · 9mo ago4.2.1 · 1.1y ago4.2.0 · 1.4y ago4.1.0 · 1.8y ago4.0.0 · 2.3y ago3.9.0 · 2.3y ago3.8.3 · 2.3y ago3.8.2 · 2.3y ago3.8.1 · 2.3y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v4.5 67%
v4.3 11%
v4.4 9.5%
v4.2 5.3%
Older / other versions 7.5%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10K–20K ≈19K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2020-10-31 · 1,427 observations

10KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price.

Details

Version
4.6.1
Last updated
11d ago
Added
2020-01-10 · 6 yrs old
Requires WP
6.4
Tested up to
7.1
Requires PHP
8.2

Recent reviews

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  1. Anonymous
    8mo ago

    Highly recommended ! 🙂

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  2. Leo Santis
    11mo ago

    I was using this plugin for about 1 year in a share host enviroment doing a great job. Useful when you don’t have Memcache, Opcache, Redis… Now I moved to a VPS and still does a great job and now combined with your OPcache Manager.

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  3. Vincent Vu
    1.2y ago

    Well done mate, something that actually works well with ACPU. Clients on shared spaces, without hosting that provides Redis or Memcache without utilising an external server. This is great, installed and it works.

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  4. squaleforce
    1.4y ago

    This plugin is awesome and the support is amazing.

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  5. pnutb
    1.4y ago

    *Using this, with the free LiteSpeed Cache plugin set on the middle preset, on a LiteSpeed enabled server. Website currently hosted on Kualo. (A UK renewable energy shared server) It took my website from decent speed to boom! lightning fast! After a lot of tweaking to attain 100s across the board on PageSpeed Insights on both Mobile and Desktop, both my site’s home and 2nd most important page not only excel for Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO, but now are consistently loading much faster because of this plugin. I knew enabling a persistent cache object was a good thing but didn’t want to upgrade my hosting bill as my site is just a hobby site. But after seeing the nag about it in WP’s Site Health I took another search and found an article about the plugin and how easy it was to install and get going. Desktop loading in around 0.5 secs now instead of 1.5 before installing APCu Manager Plugin. Highly reco trying this plugin to anyone already using LSCache. The site speed difference it made for my site is awesome. –Thank you APCu Manager!

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  6. Bonaldi
    2.2y ago

    These are certainly the 3 main characteristics of this excellent extension.I recommend it without hesitation.Thank you, Pierre.

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  7. JimJam
    2.2y ago

    I was using Redis Object Cache Pro earlier. I wanted to always try APCu rather than Redis/Memcached. I found this awesome ultimate performer for the Object Caching. I did 10s of benchmarks, and I have to say – this has a killer speed as compared to the PAID Redis implementation. I have to say this again – “APCu Manager” is Extremely fast as compared to Redis Object cache Pro and it is FREE. God bless. Thanks much.

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  8. Éric Martin
    2.3y ago

    Superbe extension de gestion du cache objet. Fonctionne parfaitement.Merci 🙏 👍

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 6 languages, 5 at 90% or more

French (Belgium) 99%
French (Canada) 99%
French (France) 99%
Japanese 99%
Korean 99%
Swedish 88%

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2025-09-09 9K+ → 10K+ up after 1 days in tier
  2. 2025-09-08 10K+ → 9K+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-09-07 9K+ → 10K+ up after 1 days in tier
  4. 2025-09-06 10K+ → 9K+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-09-05 9K+ → 10K+ up after 131 days in tier
  6. 2025-04-27 8K+ → 9K+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2025-04-26 9K+ → 8K+ down after 2 days in tier
  8. 2025-04-24 8K+ → 9K+ up after 7 days in tier

Competes with

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