Installing Wordpress Cache - WP Super Cache

Note: If you're on a Personal, Business, Professional or Reseller plan, follow this guide to install the Litespeed Cache, as it's 3-5x faster than Super Cache. The Super Cache guide is only here for VPS and Dedicated Servers without Litespeed.

Super Cache is a plugin for WordPress that speeds up your website, often making a night and day difference. WordPress uses many small programs (called PHP scripts) to generate each page of your site. This happens every time a user visits any page. Super Cache runs these scripts and saves the result that is generated after the scripts have finished. After a page has been visited once, Super Cache will be able to return this result to other users as well, so the scripts don't have to run for each user.

Please note that the information in this guide is provided as a suggestion, and we can't provide detailed support for modifications to a Content Management System. If you require assistance with this, we'd recommend speaking to your website developer to ensure relevance and compatibility with your site.


Before you start, ensure that WordPress and all themes/plugins are updated (click here for a guide). Also, make sure that you have PHP updated to the latest supported version (click here for a guide).

Step 1 - Log into WordPress, then click on Plugins > Add New.






Step 2 - Find and install the WP Super Cache plugin.




Make sure to click Activate once the install is complete.





Step 3 - Click on Settings for the plugin.





Step 4 - Click on Advanced and make sure the following settings are used:








Make sure to click Update Status once you're done.





Step 5 - Scroll down and click Update Mod_Rewrite Rules.





Step 6 - Click on Preload, set the options as per the image below, then click on Update Settings.




You now have WP Super Cache installed and configured on your hosting account. If you still experience speed issues with your website, click here to check our WordPress speed up guide.


For more tutorials on website development and Wordpress troubleshooting, view our List of Wordpress Guides.