Did you know that on our hosting servers you can make your WordPress website significantly faster, for free? We have the super fast LiteSpeed as a web server running on all our servers, and it has a special caching plugin for WordPress available called LiteSpeed Cache. In this article, I'll explain what LiteSpeed Cache is and how to install it on your WordPress website.

What is LiteSpeed Cache?

Caching is a commonly used technique to speed up websites. Instead of letting PHP and the MySQL database generate each page, your pages are stored ready-to-use in memory so they can be quickly shown to the visitor. There are many caching plugins available for WordPress. The advantage of LiteSpeed Cache is that it works optimally with the LiteSpeed web server, which we use on all our hosting servers. LiteSpeed optimizes, compresses, and speeds up your website. By using the LiteSpeed Cache plugin, this can be done even better.

How do I install LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress?

Now let’s install the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress. Below, I'll show you step-by-step how this works.

Step 1: Install the LScache plugin

First, we will install the LiteSpeed Cache plugin, also known as LScache. To do this, log into wp-admin, go to Plugins, and click on the Add New Plugin button. Then search for "LScache". Install and activate the found plugin.

Installing LiteSpeed Cache plugin

Step 2: Check the cache settings

After the LScache plugin is installed and activated, it's a good idea to check the cache settings of the plugin. For most websites, all settings are already correctly configured by default, so chances are you won’t need to make any changes. You can check the settings by clicking on LiteSpeed Cache in the left menu, and then selecting the Cache menu item below.

Check and modify LiteSpeed Cache settings

Step 3: Check if caching is working for your WordPress website

Now it’s time to check if the cache is working. LiteSpeed has created a handy check website for this, which you can visit via: https://check.lscache.io/

Check if LScache works well on check.lscache.io

Step 4: Reset cache during updates

As a final step, we’d like to explain how you can reset LiteSpeed Cache. Normally, the cache is automatically reset after some time, but you may want to clear the cache manually. You can do this by selecting the Toolbox option under the LiteSpeed Cache menu. On this page, you can then reset the cache with the "Purge All" option.

You can clear LiteSpeed Cache with "Purge All"