Varnish/Nginx Proxy Caching

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 94% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ Patrick_D1985

   6.7y ago

   There are a bunch of Varnish purging / banning plugins out there but this is the only one that seems to work with a Plesk Docker container setup. Very much appreciated 🙂

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2. ★★★★★ billyengler

   8.1y ago

   I’ve spent months (on and off) trying to achieve what the VCL generator this plugin has gives to you. Simply amazing. And the few tweaks I needed I learned from my months of failure. Thank you for this great plugin!

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3. ★★★★★ Sinclair

   8.4y ago

   Configuring Varnish is so hard and even if you get varnish to work usually it does not cache. Well, with this plugin, the nightmare is over. Great work. Thank you.

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4. ★★★★★ aelsharawi

   9.3y ago

   Just great plugin with rapid support

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5. ★★★★★ jugadelpi

   9.8y ago

   A great way to test if Varnish is truly and totally working on website is verifying if the “age” value is increasing in page’s header when checking the website using a tool like Chrome’s Developer Tools. http://d33v4339jhl8k0.cloudfront.net/docs/assets/5415e7bfe4b01e2a68fe8243/images/58058721c697915a23d7a629/file-a9Lg9golUw.jpg I was having a problem where this age value in header was always 0 which meant that Varnish was not caching pages properly. After testing different Varnish configs from Google, I was never able to make it work. After installing this plugin, this age value is now increasing. It integrates perfectly with wordpress. However, the purge option was not working properly on my website and the age value (which was now increasing thanks to this plugin) was not being purged when purging Varnish using this plugin, therefore, it was constantaly increasing without rolling back to 0. Nevertheless, this purge problem was also resolved after installing the “Varnish HTTP Purge” plugin.

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6. ★★★★★ David_V

   10.0y ago

   No more “Guru meditation” and integates nicely. Thanks!

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7. ★★★★★ Matheus Bavaresco

   10.1y ago

   Running the varnish 4!

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8. ★★★★★ shaundma

   10.5y ago

   Works very well with multi host varnish 4

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2 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, 2 still affect the current version.

1. High · 7.5 Varnish/Nginx Proxy Caching <= 1.8.3 - Unauthenticated Information Exposure ↗
   2025-12-31 CVE-2025-62126 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Affects <= 1.8.3 No patch available
2. Medium · 4.4 Varnish/Nginx Proxy Caching <= 1.8.3 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-08-20 CVE-2025-48360 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.8.3 No patch available

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Translated into 132 languages, 4 at 90% or more

Plus 108 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-06-27 800+ → 600+ down after 96 days in tier
2. 2026-03-23 900+ → 800+ down after 1 days in tier
3. 2026-03-22 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
4. 2026-03-21 900+ → 800+ down after 2 days in tier
5. 2026-03-19 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
6. 2026-03-18 900+ → 800+ down after 89 days in tier
7. 2025-12-19 1K+ → 900+ down after 6 days in tier
8. 2025-12-13 900+ → 1K+ up after 1 days in tier

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).

• Proxy Cache Purge 50K+ installs · 4.3★ · 4 shared tags A
• Purge Varnish Cache 1K+ installs · 4.4★ · 4 shared tags A
• Nginx Cache 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags A
• CLP Varnish Cache 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags B
• S Server-Side Cache AutoPurge 10K+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags B
• Hestia Nginx Cache 1K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags A

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Varnish/Nginx Proxy Caching: 600+ active installs, 5.0★ (10 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-28. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/vcaching