Widget Output Cache

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1. ★★★★★ 18TommyBoy

   2.7y ago

   LiteSpeed has not integrated this yet, superb thing to it!

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2. ★★★★★ Antony Booker

   10.1y ago

   Great plugin. Does it what is says and can really help give that extra speed boost. It even refreshes the cache when a widget is saved. On first installation I would recommend increasing the cache time from the default 12 minutes, using the below filter: add_filter( ‘widget_output_cache_ttl’, ‘widget_cache_custom_ttl’, 10, 2 ); function widget_cache_custom_ttl( $ttl ) { $ttl = 3600 * 24; // 24 hours return $ttl; }

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3. ★★★★★ Skylightit

   10.2y ago

   We use various plugins to produce our support site with 200+ pages, widgets that pull information from our sub sites at support.skylightit.com. We are using caching, varnish and various server side and WP plugins. Our issue was that some of the custom widgets were impacting the sites performance and this just improved it. So that you to the developers for awesome work.

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4. ★★★★★ menesme

   10.6y ago

   This is good plugin. Simple and easy to use although improved performance in my sites. But it has not been updated for a year. Is update yet?

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5. ★★★★★ ikester7579

   10.8y ago

   If you have widgets with pics or animation, this plugin allows everything in it to be cached. Widgets do not cache normally. This even adds a little check box to not cache certain ones of you run things in there that constantly change If you do change something and just need to clear the cache just for the widget to see what it looks like. Just hit the widget save button and the changes take place. So if you have a CDN local or off site set up, the widgets will now be included in that cache Sped up my webpage big time because I use widgets that download the latest posts from 5 Face Book pages on the same subject but different information. Because that’s all cached now and does not change for 24 hours (how I have it set up in the FB feed through another plugin) the FB information is cached and loads quickly instead of waiting for FB servers to send it.. This topic was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by ikester7579.

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6. ★★★★★ General Seed

   13.1y ago

   Thanks , it works very fine, fine. Please keep update Great plugin This topic was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by General Seed. This topic was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by General Seed.

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7. ★★★★★ Ryan Hellyer

   13.4y ago

   This is a very simple but effective plugin. Most of the time you don’t need your widgets to be updated on every page load, so caching them makes a lot of sense. The code is nice and lean, so it’s easy to see how this thing works. Since it uses a transient, you still get a performance boost even when on shared hosting, which is a nice addition. EDIT: Addition of menus now makes it doubly awesome 🙂

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

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-03-04 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2026-03-03 200+ → 300+ up after 89 days in tier
3. 2025-12-04 300+ → 200+ down after 415 days in tier
4. 2024-10-15 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in tier
5. 2024-10-13 300+ → 400+ up after 2 days in tier
6. 2024-10-11 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
7. 2024-10-10 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
8. 2024-10-09 400+ → 300+ down 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).

• WP Super Cache 1M+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• WP-Optimize – Cache, Compress images, Minify & Clean database to boost page speed & performance 1M+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A
• Breeze Cache 300K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B
• Blocksy Companion 300K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• Widget Importer & Exporter 200K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• Cache Enabler 100K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags B

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Widget Output Cache: 200+ active installs, 4.9★ (7 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-09-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/widget-output-cache