Proxy Cache Purge 5.9.0

Does Proxy Cache Purge work with WordPress 7.0 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
2PHP warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 119.66 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.028 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version7.0
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 40,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/varnish-http-purge/
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Pages 6

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=varnish-http-purge%2Fvarnish-http-purge.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=c842f2644c
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.582 s
Memory usage 4 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Proxy Cache

Page screenshot: Proxy Cache
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=varnish-page
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.539 s
Memory usage 3.97 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Proxy Cache → Check Caching

Page screenshot: Proxy Cache → Check Caching
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=varnish-check-caching
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.629 s
Memory usage 3.97 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Proxy Cache → Check Caching → Header Analysis

Page screenshot: Proxy Cache → Check Caching → 
					
					Header Analysis
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=varnish-check-caching
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.458 s
Memory usage 3.97 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Proxy Cache → Get Cache Warming

Page screenshot: Proxy Cache → Get Cache Warming
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vhp-cache-warming
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.112 s
Memory usage N/A
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.226 s
Memory usage 4.28 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.698 s0.631 s-0.067 s3.92 MiB4.06 MiB+ 135.02 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.562 s0.504 s-0.058 s3.98 MiB4.11 MiB+ 135.45 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.993 s2.170 s+0.177 s6.56 MiB6.69 MiB+ 139.06 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.694 s1.191 s+0.497 s3.89 MiB4.01 MiB+ 129.36 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.502 s0.598 s+0.096 s3.86 MiB3.97 MiB+ 112.94 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.935 s0.489 s-0.446 s3.85 MiB3.97 MiB+ 121.13 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.754 s0.523 s-0.231 s3.86 MiB3.99 MiB+ 126.3 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.756 s1.988 s+0.232 s6.55 MiB6.68 MiB+ 134.65 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.690 s0.824 s+0.134 s3.86 MiB3.97 MiB+ 109.44 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.524 s0.541 s+0.017 s3.88 MiB4 MiB+ 116.99 KiB
/0.269 s0.221 s-0.048 s4.23 MiB4.28 MiB+ 55.86 KiB
Average 0.852 s0.880 s+0.028 s4.4 MiB4.52 MiB+ 119.66 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

PHP
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP93.0%4,3701,8907
JSON6.5%30603
CSS0.4%2131
Total 4,697 1,893 11

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Lines of code 4,466
Total complexity 959
Median class complexity 230.0
Median method complexity 4.0
Most complex class VarnishPurger
Most complex function VarnishPurger::purge_post()
Classes 5
Methods 124
Functions 2

Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Options wp_options 6

PHP Error Log 2 lines

[21-May-2026 03:59:36 UTC] PHP Warning:  Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /wp-admin/menu-header.php:153) in /wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1535
[21-May-2026 03:59:36 UTC] PHP Warning:  Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /wp-admin/menu-header.php:153) in /wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1538
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Proxy Cache Purge Admin Menus