Surge – A WordPress Cache Plugin with ZERO Configurations

Sometimes setting up a WordPress caching plugin becomes tricky. A WordPress core contributor, Konstantin Kovshenin, came up with an idea to create a simple caching plugin with ZERO configurations and named it, “Surge“.

It got a lot of traction in just a few days because of its simplicity.

The Surge plugin includes no settings and works out of the box as soon as it is activated and you do not have to worry about any complex setup. Serving out a static HTML cached version of your site could potentially improve the load times for visitors and reduce the Time to First Byte (TTFB) of pages and posts.

You can use the Surge plugin with WooCommerce since the cart, checkout and my account pages would already be set a no-cache header so they will not be cached by the Surge plugin.

The plugin will set a cache true constant in the site’s wp-config.php file as well as add its own advanced-cache.php drop-in file into the site’s wp-content folder.

The Surge plugin is being actively developed and will include bug reports and feature requests as they come up on the plugins listing on WordPress.org.

If you need a simple free caching solution without the many settings of WP Rocket or W3 Total Cache then give the Surge plugin a test on your staging site first.

Useful Links

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/surge/
• https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatible-with-contact-form-plugins-using-nonces/
• https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-is-the-woocommerce-support/