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{eac}ObjectCache – a persistent object cache using SQLite & APCu to cache WordPress objects.

by Kevin Burkholder · Performance

Also makes 10 other plugins · 60+ installs across the portfolio →

{eac}ObjectCache is a persistent object cache using APCu & SQLite to cache WordPress objects; A drop-in replacement to the WP Object Cache used by …

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⚠ Few reviews

Health

B 84/100

Few reviews

Active installs

10+

≈20 estimated

Momentum

-37%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: Swap “object cache” for “objects”. “object cache” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “objects” sits at #24 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.

How scoring works →
84 Health · B
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

84 health vs 69 average across 1,808 Performance plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.3%

of downloads still active

At least 10 of 3.2K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Performance plugin keeps 1.4%, across 1,103 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Performance plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

This plugin shipped 3 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.

Details

Version
2.1.6
Last updated
yesterday
Added
2024-04-03 · 2 yrs old
Requires WP
5.8
Tested up to
7.1.4
Requires PHP
8.1

Recent review vibe

read from the latest 2 reviews to 2025-11-04
Positive PraisePerformanceCompatibility

Both reviewers are happy, reporting faster backends, high cache hit rates, and no conflicts with WooCommerce or WP Rocket.

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.

89 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Most to gain: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100

Updated 1 day ago

WP compatibility 100/100

Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer

Rating quality 52/100

5.0★ over 2 reviews, smoothed to 4.13★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 4 Apr 2024 · 941 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-37% vs prior 30d
4431 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 253 · peaks are release surges

17231 Oct 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #30,100 to #45,000, alongside the other plugins at 10+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

531 Oct 2026

Update activity

Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.

Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
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.

3

releases in the last 12 months

yesterday

latest release · v2.1.6 · 30 Oct 2026

14

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.1.6 · 30 Oct 20262.1.4 · 14 Sep 20262.1.3 · 16 Jun 20262.1.2 · 25 Oct 20252.1.1 · 17 Oct 20252.1.0 · 15 Oct 20252.0.0 · 3 Oct 20251.4.1 · 21 Jul 20251.4.0 · 1 Jul 20251.3.4 · 18 Jun 20251.3.3 · 11 Jun 20251.3.2 · 4 Jun 20251.3.1 · 22 Apr 20251.3.0 · 12 Apr 2025

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.1 100%

Estimated active installs

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

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈20

Crossed into this band today and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 20.

At the current install trend, crossing 20+ in roughly 346 days.

Install history since 3 Apr 2024

1031 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ Nguyen Van Tuan
    12mo ago

    Hi Kevin, First, I want to sincerely thank you for creating the EAC ObjectCache plugin. After enabling it, the backend performance of my site has improved significantly, and I truly appreciate your work in optimizing WordPress object caching. EAC ObjectCache v2.1.2APCu v5.1.24 – Using 1.8MB of 512MB Sample URI: /wp-admin/Sample Time: 2025-11-04T16:46:04+07:00 cache hits 2,683 (98.78%) cache misses 33 L1 cache hits 2,555 (94.21%) L1 cache misses 157 L2 APCu hits 128 (94.12%) L2 APCu misses 8 However, I have encountered a recurring fatal error that causes crashes on my setup: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get() on null in /wp-content/plugins/eacobjectcache/src/wp-cache.php:187 Here is my environment for reference: VPS: AMD, 2 CPU, 6GB RAM Web server: OpenLiteSpeed 1.8.4 OS: AlmaLinux 8.10 LSPHP 8.4 WordPress: 6.8.3 WooCommerce: 10.3.3 PHP APC Configuration: apc.enabled = Onapc.enable_cli = Onapc.shm_size = 2Gapc.entries_hint = 131072apc.ttl = 0apc.canonicalize = 1apc.stat = 0apc.gc_ttl = 86400apc.mmap_file_mask = /tmp/apc.XXXXXXapc.use_request_time = 1apc.serializer = igbinaryapc.rfc1864 = Offapc.slam_defense = On wp-config.php relevant settings: define( ‘WP_CACHE’, true );define( ‘EAC_OBJECT_CACHE_ENABLE’, true );define( ‘EAC_OBJECT_CACHE_USE_APCU’, true );define( ‘EAC_OBJECT_CACHE_USE_DB’, false );define( ‘EAC_OBJECT_CACHE_PERSISTENT’, true );define( ‘EAC_OBJECT_CACHE_DEFAULT_EXPIRE’, 86400 * 7 );define( ‘EAC_OBJECT_CACHE_PREFETCH_MISSES’, false );define( ‘EAC_OBJECT_CACHE_OPTIMIZE_MEMORY’, false );define( ‘EAC_OBJECT_CACHE_EXCLUDE_GROUPS’, serialize( array(‘wc_session’,‘wc_cart’,‘woocommerce_items_’,‘transient_wc_’) ) );define( ‘EAC_OBJECT_CACHE_DEBUG’, false ); I’m hoping you could take a look and possibly provide a fix for this error with my current setup. I really appreciate your time and effort, and again, thank you for developing such a helpful plugin. Best regards,Nguyen Van Tuan This topic was modified 8 months, 2 weeks ago by Nguyen Van Tuan.

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  2. ★★★★★ racoq
    1.2y ago

    I have installed this plugin to serve as an minimalist object cache to squeeze a little bit more performance from the website i manage. Just for record the website uses woocommerce and WPRocket, and the compability so far seems top notch. So far works great.. Very fast! In fact, better than the other sqlite object cache that is more popular…. So i am surprised this plugin doesn’t have more reviews and installations (hope that changes in the future). I wish you keep updating it and make it even better. Cheers! 🙂 This topic was modified 11 months, 2 weeks ago by racoq.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

✓ 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

AI assistants

How it's measured →

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

5 of 8 pass · checked 27 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "{eac}ObjectCache is a persistent object cache using APCu & SQLite to cache WordPress objects; A drop-in rep..."
  • ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
  • ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
  • ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Multisite.
  • ✓ Headings and lists 4 headings and 53 lists.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 14,957 characters of description.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "WP Cache" does not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-10-31 20+ → 10+ down after 10 days in tier
  2. 2026-10-21 10+ → 20+ up

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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{eac}ObjectCache – a persistent object cache using SQLite & APCu to cache WordPress objects.: 10+ active installs, 5.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/eacobjectcache

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