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CacheWing

Lightweight caching plugin: full-page cache, CSS minify, JS defer, font optimization, and image lazy-load — built for Core Web Vitals.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version1.0.4
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 5.8 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update11 Sept 20261mo ago
Active installationsNewAdoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org ratingNo WordPress.org ratings yet
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records CacheWing version 1.0.4 as active, updated 1mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

CacheWing is a fast, no-bloat WordPress performance plugin built to improve page speed and Core Web Vitals scores without the complexity of a full-featured caching suite. It does five things, and does them well:

  • Full-Page Caching — serves static HTML snapshots to logged-out visitors so PHP and the database are skipped entirely on repeat requests.
  • CSS Minification — automatically minifies first-party stylesheets and serves the minified version from a local cache.
  • JavaScript Deferral — defers non-critical scripts so the browser can paint the page before running them, with an exclude list for scripts that must load immediately.
  • Font Optimization — loads Google Fonts asynchronously so web fonts never block the initial render.
  • Lazy Loading — adds native lazy-loading to images and iframes below the fold, while protecting your Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) image from being delayed.

Built for site owners and developers who want a fast, transparent, single-purpose caching plugin — not a 40-tab settings panel.

Why CacheWing

Most all-in-one caching plugins bundle features you’ll never use and settings that are hard to reason about. CacheWing focuses only on the optimizations that move Google PageSpeed Insights and Core Web Vitals scores, with sane defaults that work out of the box.

Features at a glance

  • One-click cache clearing from the admin bar
  • Automatic cache purge on publish/update, new comments, theme switch, and plugin activation/deactivation
  • Per-script exclude list for JavaScript deferral
  • Cache status dashboard (pages cached, disk usage)
  • Zero external dependencies, zero tracking, zero telemetry
WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • lazy load
  • page speed
  • cache
  • minify
  • performance
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.8 · PHP 7.4
Update activity11 Sept 20261mo ago

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Version1.0.31.0.4
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