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Cache Enabler
Speed up your site while praying you do not need support.
HealthyGrowing
76/100
This lightweight plugin delivers speed but leaves users stranded with unpatched bugs and no support.
Active installs
~95,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 90k+
Rating
4.3★
138 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+161%
Growing fast
190 → 496 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
Growing fast · +161% in the last year
190/day a year ago→496/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayCache Enabler is well-regarded as a lightweight, simple, and effective full-page caching plugin, but it is held back by unresolved PHP errors, absent support, and a security concern around unprotected cache files.
What people like
- +Lightweight and easy to set up — works immediately on activation with minimal configuration×5
- +Works well in multisite environments×2
- +Does not automatically modify the .htaccess file
- +Serves cached pages even when the database is disconnected, providing resilience during outages
- +Flexible and customizable caching rules compared to competing plugins
- +Works well alongside CDNs such as Cloudflare×2
- +Less likely to cause conflicts with other plugins than alternatives
Common complaints
- −Persistent PHP warnings in cache_enabler_engine.class.php (undefined array key 'SCRIPT_NAME') reported by multiple users and left unresolved for months
- −Support is effectively non-existent or very slow to respond×2
- −Disabling the plugin does not remove cached HTML files from /cache/cache-enabler
- −Cached files can be externally edited/tampered with, posing a security risk with no checksum verification
- −Reported to stop working after WordPress core updates
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.25★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.30★
- 2%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 138 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-06-04★★★★★Richtig gutes und stabiles Cache PluginR. Kendlbacher
- 2026-01-09★★★★★Cachesisalik
- 2025-12-05★★★★★Best Caching Plugin!wickydesign
- 2025-11-03★★★★★works perfectly with ELEX get a quoteverkerk
- 2025-10-05★★★★★Good performanceVu Tru So
- 2025-09-23★★★★★refreshingly simple and faster than othershospeeddesginer
- 2025-03-29★★★★★I was attacked from cache files.watcharakrit
- 2025-03-18★★★★★lightweight effective straightforward!Pinpersia.com
- 2025-03-12★★★★★Stopped working?IanEric
- 2025-01-15★★★★★Very nicejamaicahomes
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Cache Enabler
Top Speed plugins, ranked by score.For 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.
524
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
480
Prior 7-day baseline
355
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
524
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+9.2%
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.
21%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.68
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
76%
5★ share in analyzed sample
2%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-50%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.26 → 4.25★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered