Pods Alternative Cache

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1. ★★★★★ Dennis Bareis

   3.6y ago

   PODS itself is great, this looks like crap, the only thing it seems to do is prevent proper editing of “POD Pages” as the template selection and other fields are gone!

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2. ★★★★★ thdnunes

   7.7y ago

   It helped me to clean up the autoloaded data in the wp_options table. Before: 0.775MB After: 0.065MB

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3. ★★★★★ Nic Ford

   10.2y ago

   A site we built was totally grinding to a halt on our BlueHost shared hosting account when we started getting traffic over a few hundred sessions. Other caching options weren’t working and Pods Alt Cache did the trick! After setting up the cache parameters, it very quickly resolved the issue. Great file-based solution for server configurations that don’t offer customized control over object/mem caching.

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4. ★★★★★ bubencode

   10.8y ago

   Works like a charm! I had to disable object caching on one site due to inconsistency of GoDaddy’s caching with another plugin (Google Calendar Events). After renaming of the /wp-content/object-cache.php file (to just make object caching not function) – PODS ended in Fatal Error crashing the entire website: Cannot call overloaded function for non-object in …/general.php on line 230 Then I spotted this cute “Pods Alternative Cache” plugin, installed it and made the trick with object caching disabling again. Keeping my breath I reloaded my website and ALL WORKED! Now both PODS and GCal Event are functioning with no errors. Thank you guys very much for creating this addition to your beautiful PODS framework!

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5. ★★★★★ General Seed

   11.5y ago

   Works fine, excellent, five starts, keep updated. Thanks 🙂

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6. ★★★★★ Mark Sund

   12.1y ago

   This plugin made a huge speed improvement in our Pods-based site hosted on WP Engine. That’s impressive considering WP Engine already provides server-side caching. Our site has highly-connected Pods relationships resulting in hundreds of database calls per page. Our initial experience with the Pods Alternative Cache is it takes longer to generate uncached pages, but once they’re cached they’re lightning fast.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.3 New minimum requirement: WordPress 6.3+ Fixed: Tested on WP 7.0 (@sc0ttkclark) Fixed: Resolved Plugin Checker issues across codebase. (@sc0ttkclark) 2.3
2. — Version 2.2.1 Fixed: Tested on WP 6.8 and PHP 7.2+. (@sc0ttkclark) 2.2.1
3. — Version 2.2.0 New requirements that match Pods: WP 6.0+, PHP 7.2+, and Pods 3.0+ (@sc0ttkclark) 2.2.0
4. — Version 2.1.8 Fixed: Resolved a PHP notices with the storage set method. (@sc0ttkclark) Fixed: Resolved an issue which was causing the cache group not be utilized properly when setting the fallback value. (@sc0ttkclark) Fixed: Tested 2.1.8
5. — Version 2.1.7 Fixed: Caught a bug hanging around for a few years that only happened in edge cases — checking if file/directory still exists before trying to delete/remove it. (@sc0ttkclark) 2.1.7
6. — Version 2.1.6 Fixed: Prevent issue that sometimes happens with persistent object cache fallback when clearing cache for a group. (@sc0ttkclark) 2.1.6

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

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

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

1. 2024-12-11 4K+ → 5K+ up after 2 days in tier
2. 2024-12-09 5K+ → 4K+ down after 166 days in tier
3. 2024-06-26 4K+ → 5K+ up after 411 days in tier
4. 2023-05-12 3K+ → 4K+ up after 198 days in tier
5. 2022-10-26 2K+ → 3K+ 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).

• WP Super Cache 1M+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A
• WP Fastest Cache – WordPress Cache Plugin 1M+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag B
• WP-Optimize – Cache, Compress images, Minify & Clean database to boost page speed & performance 1M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
• SpeedyCache – Cache, Optimization, Performance 600K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag A
• Breeze Cache 300K+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag B
• OMGF | GDPR/DSGVO Compliant, Faster Google Fonts. Easy. 300K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A

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Pods Alternative Cache: 5K+ active installs, 4.3★ (6 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/pods-alternative-cache