Description
LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress (LSCWP) is an all-in-one site acceleration plugin, featuring an exclusive server-level cache and a collection of optimization features.
LSCWP supports WordPress Multisite and is compatible with most popular plugins, including WooCommerce, bbPress, and Yoast SEO.
LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress is compatible with ClassicPress.
Requirements
General Features may be used by anyone with any web server (LiteSpeed, Apache, NGINX, etc.).
LiteSpeed Exclusive Features require one of the following: OpenLiteSpeed, commercial LiteSpeed products, LiteSpeed-powered hosting, or QUIC.cloud CDN. Why?
Plugin Features
General Features
- Free QUIC.cloud CDN Cache
- Object Cache (Memcached/LSMCD/Redis) Support+
- Image Optimization (Lossless/Lossy)
- Minify CSS, JavaScript, and HTML
- Minify inline & external CSS/JS
- Combine CSS/JS
- Automatically generate Critical CSS
- Lazy-load images/iframes
- Responsive Image Placeholders
- Multiple CDN Support+
- Load CSS Asynchronously
- Defer/delay JS loading
- Browser Cache Support+
- Database Cleaner and Optimizer
- PageSpeed score (including Core Web Vitals) optimization
- OPcode Cache Support+
- HTTP/2 Push for CSS/JS (on web servers that support it)
- DNS Prefetch
- Cloudflare API
- Single Site and Multisite (Network) support
- Import/Export settings
- Attractive, easy-to-understand interface
- AVIF/WebP image format support
- Heartbeat control
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Installation
For Optimization Without a LiteSpeed Web Server
- Install the LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress plugin and activate it.
- From the WordPress Dashboard, navigate to LiteSpeed Cache > Page Optimization. Enable the available optimization features in the various tabs.
For Caching and Optimization With a LiteSpeed Web Server
- Install LiteSpeed Web Server Enterprise with LSCache Module, LiteSpeed Web ADC, or OpenLiteSpeed with cache module (Free). Or sign up for QUIC.cloud CDN.
- Install the LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress plugin and activate it.
- From the WordPress Dashboard, navigate to LiteSpeed Cache > Cache, make sure the option Enable LiteSpeed Cache is set to
ON. - Enable any desired caching and optimization features in the various tabs.
Notes for LiteSpeed Web Server Enterprise
- Make sure that your license includes the LSCache module. A 2-CPU trial license with LSCache module is available for free for 15 days.
- The server must be configured to have caching enabled. If you are the server admin, click here for instructions. Otherwise, please request that the server admin configure the cache root for the server.
Notes for OpenLiteSpeed
- This integration utilizes OpenLiteSpeed’s cache module.
- If it is a fresh OLS installation, the easiest way to integrate is to use ols1clk. If using an existing WordPress installation, use the
--wordpresspathparameter. - If OLS and WordPress are both already installed, please follow the instructions in How To Set Up LSCache For WordPress.
wp plugin install litespeed-cache --activateFrequently Asked Questions
This plugin communicates with your LiteSpeed Web Server and its built-in page cache (LSCache) to deliver superior performance to your WordPress site. The plugin’s cache features indicate to the server that a page is cacheable and for how long, or they invalidate particular cached pages using tags.
LSCache is a server-level cache, so it’s faster than PHP-level caches. Compare with other PHP-based caches.
A page cache allows the server to bypass PHP and database queries altogether. LSCache, in particular, because of its close relationship with the server, can remember things about the cache entries that other plugins cannot, and it can analyze dependencies. It can utilize tags to manage the smart purging of the cache, and it can use vary cookie... [truncated]
Changelog
7.5.0.1 – Sep 11 2025
- 🐞GUI Fixed an issue where the network dashboard template was missing. (mcworks)
7.5 – Sep 10 2025
- 🌱Image Optimize New option
Optimize Image Sizesto allow user to choose which image sizes to include in optimization request. - 🐞Purge Purge Time setting will respect WP timezone setting now. (PR#893)
- 🐞Conf Fixed a minor type-casting bug, which could cause unnecessary QUIC.cloud sync configuration when the setting is empty.
- Misc Dropped unused rewrite rule from htaccess.
7.4 – Aug 28 2025
- 🌱Media Added new Auto Rescale Original Image option.
- 🌱Toolbox Added ability to Disable All for 24 Hours. (PR#886)
- 🐞CDN Fixed a QUIC.cloud sync configuration failure on network child sites. <... [truncated]