WP REST Cache 2026.3.1
Does WP REST Cache work with WordPress 7.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .
Summary
Errors
| No PHP errors, warnings or notices | |
| No JavaScript exceptions | |
| All test pages loaded successfully | |
| No resource errors | |
| Looks good! No problems were detected. |
Performance
Memory usage: 137.93 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.
Page speed impact:
insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.
Environment
| WordPress version | 7.1 |
|---|---|
| PHP version | 8.1.12 |
| MySQL version | 10.6.10 |
| PHP memory limit | 512M |
Plugin Info
| Last updated | |
|---|---|
| Active installs | 10,000+ |
| WordPress.org page | https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rest-cache/ |
| Badges |
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Pages 5
Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
| URL | /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=wp-rest-cache%2Fwp-rest-cache.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=03370cfc3b |
| Aspect | after-activation |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 1.032 s |
| Memory usage | 4.4 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Settings → WP REST Cache
| URL | /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wp-rest-cache |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.813 s |
| Memory usage | 4.38 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Settings → WP REST Cache → Endpoint API Caches
| URL | /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wp-rest-cache&sub=endpoint-api |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item-tab |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.873 s |
| Memory usage | 4.36 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Settings → WP REST Cache → Clear Caches
| URL | /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wp-rest-cache&sub=clear-cache |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item-tab |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.574 s |
| Memory usage | 4.36 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Test site – Just another WordPress site
| URL | / |
|---|---|
| Aspect | front-page |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.411 s |
| Memory usage | 4.72 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Benchmark
| URL | Load time | Memory usage | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inactive | Active | Change | Inactive | Active | Change | |
| /wp-admin/index.php | 1.528 s | 0.780 s | -0.748 s | 4.23 MiB | 4.37 MiB | + 151.47 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit.php | 0.828 s | 1.501 s | +0.673 s | 4.28 MiB | 4.43 MiB | + 150.84 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php | 3.233 s | 3.420 s | +0.187 s | 6.78 MiB | 6.93 MiB | + 154.55 KiB |
| /wp-admin/upload.php | 1.461 s | 1.656 s | +0.195 s | 4.25 MiB | 4.38 MiB | + 138.81 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-writing.php | 0.815 s | 0.874 s | +0.059 s | 4.22 MiB | 4.35 MiB | + 129.73 KiB |
| /wp-admin/media-new.php | 0.951 s | 0.674 s | -0.277 s | 4.21 MiB | 4.35 MiB | + 137.92 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category | 1.040 s | 0.989 s | -0.051 s | 4.22 MiB | 4.36 MiB | + 143.09 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page | 3.628 s | 3.449 s | -0.179 s | 6.76 MiB | 6.9 MiB | + 143.86 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-discussion.php | 1.290 s | 1.174 s | -0.116 s | 4.23 MiB | 4.35 MiB | + 122.23 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-comments.php | 0.953 s | 0.780 s | -0.173 s | 4.24 MiB | 4.37 MiB | + 125.73 KiB |
| / | 0.591 s | 0.381 s | -0.210 s | 4.6 MiB | 4.72 MiB | + 118.95 KiB |
| Average | 1.483 s | 1.425 s | -0.058 s | 4.73 MiB | 4.86 MiB | + 137.93 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.
| Language | % | Lines of code | Comment lines | Files | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHP | 88.5% | 2,757 | 2,118 | 27 | |
| Markdown | 6.5% | 203 | 0 | 1 | |
| Bourne Shell | 4.9% | 153 | 11 | 1 | |
| CSS | 0.1% | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Total | 3,117 | 2,129 | 30 | ||
PHP Code Analysis | More results »
| Lines of code | 2,223 |
|---|---|
| Total complexity | 518 |
| Median class complexity | 8.0 |
| Median method complexity | 3.0 |
| Most complex class | WP_Rest_Cache_Plugin\Includes\Caching\Caching |
| Most complex function | WP_Rest_Cache_Plugin\Includes\API\Endpoint_Api::skip_caching() |
| Classes | 16 |
|---|---|
| Methods | 143 |
| Functions | 0 |
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.
Database Tables 2
- wp_wrc_caches
- wp_wrc_relations
Options wp_options 9
- wp_rest_cache_allowed_endpoints
- wp_rest_cache_allowed_request_methods
- wp_rest_cache_cacheable_request_headers
- wp_rest_cache_database_version
- wp_rest_cache_disallowed_endpoints
- wp_rest_cache_hit_recording
- wp_rest_cache_item_allowed_endpoints
- wp_rest_cache_rest_prefix
- wp_rest_cache_uncached_parameters
PHP Error Log
The log file is empty.