Wp Redis Cache

====== Cache Wordpress using Redis, the fastest way to date to cache Wordpress.

Requirements

Wordpress - CMS framework/blogging system Redis - Key Value in memory caching Predis - PHP api for Redis

Setup

Install Redis, must have root access to your machine. On debian it's as simple as:

sudo apt-get install redis-server

On other systems please refer to the Redis website.

Move the folder wp-redis-cache to the plugin directory and activate the plugin. In the admin section you can set how long you will cache the post for. By default it will cache the post for 12 hours. Note: This plugin is optional and is used to refresh the cache after you update a post/page

Move the index-wp-redis.php to the root/base Wordpress directory Change the index.php to:

<?php
require('index-wp-redis.php')

*Note: Sometimes when you upgrade Wordpress it will replace over your index.php file and you will have to redo this step. This is the reason we don't just replace the contents of index-wp-redis.php with index.php.

We do this because Wordpress is no longer in charge of displaying our posts. Redis will now server the post if it is in the cache. If the post is not in the Redis cache it will then call Wordpress to serve the page and then cache it for the next pageload

Benchmark

I welcome you to compare the page load times of this caching system with other popular Caching plugins such as Wp Super Cache and W3 Total Cache

With a fresh Wordpress install: Wp Super Cache

Page generated in 0.318 seconds.

W3 Total Cache

Page generated in 0.30484 seconds.

Wp Redis Cache

Page generated in 0.00902 seconds.