86
APCu Manager
Lightning fast caching that occasionally trips over its own feet.
Healthy
86/100
Users love the speed boost but some reported site breakage after updates.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.6★
20 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-2%
Holding steady
44 → 43 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Holding steady · -2% in the last year
44/day a year ago→43/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayAPCu Manager is widely praised for delivering fast, easy-to-use object caching that noticeably speeds up sites, but a few users have reported breakage after certain updates and incompatibility with Windows servers.
What people like
- +Provides significant site-speed improvements×3
- +Effective object caching especially when Memcache, Redis, or OpCache are unavailable×3
- +Easy to install and configure×2
- +Responsive and helpful support from the author/team×3
- +Free and faster than paid Redis Object Cache alternatives
- +Works alongside OPcache Manager on both shared and VPS hosting
Common complaints
- −Update to version 3.8.1 caused site downtime for some users (since 3.8.1)
- −Does not work on Windows/IIS servers
- −Can completely break a site after installation or update (unspecified version)
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.58★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 5%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 20 total
Latest reviews · 20 analyzed
- 2025-12-20★★★★★ExcellentQuentin Le Duff
- 2025-09-22★★★★★Great JobLeo Santis
- 2025-06-09★★★★★DeservedVincent Vu
- 2025-04-23★★★★★Awesome supportsqualeforce
- 2025-03-21★★★★★APCu Manager Plugin Rockspnutb
- 2024-07-03★★★★★Simple, useful and efficientBonaldi
- 2024-06-26★★★★★Extremely Fast – Object caching Plugin!Unreal NFS
- 2024-05-27★★★★★Excellente extensionÉric Martin
- 2024-05-05★★★★★3.8.1 breaks all websitesalhelor
- 2023-11-23★★★★★Great support / useful pluginer2es1-shot
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
45
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
51
Prior 7-day baseline
36
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,716
Mean release-day peak (30d)
1,716
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
-11.8%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
18%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.69
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
90%
5★ share in analyzed sample
5%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.60 → 4.58★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered