Improve Performance with Pods Alternative Cache

About Pods Alternative Cache

Pods Alternative Cache is a plugin that improves the performance of cached objects generated from Pods on hosting platforms with no object caching or low limits. It works well with other caching plugins and ensures that necessary objects are not removed by the server to make room for Pods cached objects. You will need to have the Pods Framework version 2.4 or later installed to use this plugin.

Changelog

2.2.0 – March 24th, 2024

New requirements that match Pods: WP 6.0+, PHP 7.2+, and Pods 3.0+ (@sc0ttkclark)

2.1.8 – March 24th, 2024

Fixed: Resolved a PHP notices with the storage set method. (@sc0ttkclark)
Fixed: Resolved an issue which was causing the cache group not be utilized properly when setting the fallback value. (@sc0ttkclark)
Fixed: Tested on WP 6.5 and PHP 7.2+. (@sc0ttkclark)

2.1.7 – March 13th, 2023

Fixed: Caught a bug hanging around for a few years that only happened in edge cases — checking if file/directory still exists before trying to delete/remove it. (@sc0ttkclark)

2.1.6 – March 6th, 2023

Fixed: Prevent issue that sometimes happens with persistent object cache fallback when clearing cache for a group. (@sc0ttkclark)

2.1.5 – September 30th, 2022

Fixed: Resolved the PHP warning when setting up the .htaccess file. (@sc0ttkclark)

2.1.4 – September 30th, 2022

Fixed: Work on resolving the PHP warning when setting up the .htaccess file. (@sc0ttkclark)

2.1.3 – March 1st, 2022

Fixed: Ensure that the podscache file directory is excluded from search engine indexing and deny direct browser access on Apache environments.
Fixed: Help resolve potential PHP warnings on certain setups when looking to see if a folder exists and getting files from it.

2.1.2 – September 4th, 2021

Fixed: Now compatible with PHP 8.0+

2.1.1 – August 14th, 2021

Tested against WordPress 5.8 for compatibility

2.1.0 – July 14th, 2020

Added: Now requiring PHP 5.6+
Added: Freemius support when running Pods 2.7.17+
Fixed: SiteGround and other sites that use the domain name in the path no longer cause directory/file writes to fail.

2.0.7 – March 2nd, 2020

Fix DB-based storage value sets (props @Danone89)
Tested against WordPress 5.4 for compatibility

2.0.6 – March 2nd, 2019

Fixed caching issues with fallback cache
Added more tests to improve stability

2.0.5 – November 15th, 2018

Fix PHP notices when handling fallback values

2.0.4 – October 26th, 2018

Added a new object cache fallback for File storage (default alt cache) so if any writes fail it will save them to the normal object cache; You can disable this by setting define( 'PODS_ALT_CACHE_FALLBACK', false );

2.0.3 – October 23rd, 2018

Fixed cases where transients/object cache could be used by Pods before Pods Alt Cache fully loads
Updated WP compatibility version
PHPCS fixes

2.0.2 – June 2nd, 2017

Revamped branding assets
Fixed php notice
Fixed usage of Memcached port to be an integer

2.0.1 – July 13th, 2016

Fixed cache file/folder deleting bug that wouldn’t let Pods clear / preload caches properly
Typo fix (props @szepeviktor)

2.0 – June 23rd, 2016

Added support for a Memcache caching (props @shaer)
Added support for WP_Filesystem usage instead of using PHP directly
Added additional WPEngine compatibility
Refactored into a better OO pattern so the code is easier to use and extend
Added ability to create custom storage types through the pods_alternative_cache_storage_types filter, return $storage_types; where you’ve set $storage_types[ 'your_type' ] = 'Your_Class';
File storage now uses md5-based folder structure to avoid issues on sites with a large amount of cached objects to avoid having folders with too many files in them which could cause issues with certain hosts
Found a bug? Have a great feature idea? Get on GitHub and tell us about it and we’ll get right on it: github.com/pods-framework/pods-alternative-cache/issues/new

1.0 – April 16th, 2014

First official release!

Pods Alternative Cache