{"id":45080,"date":"2025-04-22T12:05:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T10:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/?p=45080"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:07:12","slug":"purpose-of-installing-a-varnish-cache-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/performance-and-security\/purpose-of-installing-a-varnish-cache-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the purpose of installing a Varnish cache plugin for Site Cache?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
Site Cache is now in limited release. Visit our Help Centre guide<\/a> for details on how to join.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Using a Varnish Cache plugin for your CMS alongside Web Accelerator\u2019s Site Cache offering can improve cache management and ensure seamless integration.<\/span><\/p>\n

Automatic Cache Purging<\/b><\/h3>\n

When content is updated (e.g. new blog post, product update), a Varnish plugin can automatically clear the cache so users see the latest content.<\/span><\/p>\n

Without a plugin, you might need to manually clear the Varnish cache or wait for it to expire.<\/span><\/p>\n

For <\/span>WordPress<\/b>, we recommend <\/span>xneelo Helper<\/span><\/a>. The plugin is a requirement if you are using WP Rocket Cache.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For <\/span>Joomla<\/b>, we recommend <\/span>Ergonet Varnish Cache<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false,"plain":"\r\n\r\n\r\n
Site Cache is now in limited release. Visit our Help Centre guide<\/a> for details on how to join.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\nUsing a Varnish Cache plugin for your CMS alongside Web Accelerator\u2019s Site Cache offering can improve cache management and ensure seamless integration.<\/span>\r\n

Automatic Cache Purging<\/b><\/h3>\r\nWhen content is updated (e.g. new blog post, product update), a Varnish plugin can automatically clear the cache so users see the latest content.<\/span>\r\n\r\nWithout a plugin, you might need to manually clear the Varnish cache or wait for it to expire.<\/span>\r\n\r\nFor <\/span>WordPress<\/b>, we recommend <\/span>xneelo Helper<\/span><\/a>. The plugin is a requirement if you are using WP Rocket Cache.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nFor <\/span>Joomla<\/b>, we recommend <\/span>Ergonet Varnish Cache<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Using a Varnish Cache plugin for your CMS alongside Web Accelerator\u2019s Site Cache offering can improve cache management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lsx_disable_title":"0","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23177],"tags":[23394,23397,23388,23334,23337,20782],"topics":[22745],"class_list":["post-45080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance-and-security","tag-install-plugin","tag-varnish-cache-plugin","tag-varnish","tag-cache","tag-web-accelerator","tag-purge-cache","topics-web-accelerator-cache"],"acf":[],"additional_meta":{"category_title":[{"term_id":23177,"name":"performance and security","slug":"performance-and-security","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":23177,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":17,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1","cat_ID":23177,"category_count":17,"category_description":"","cat_name":"performance and security","category_nicename":"performance-and-security","category_parent":0}],"tag_title":[{"term_id":23394,"name":"install plugin","slug":"install-plugin","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":23394,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"349"},{"term_id":23397,"name":"varnish cache plugin","slug":"varnish-cache-plugin","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":23397,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"350"},{"term_id":23388,"name":"varnish","slug":"varnish","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":23388,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","term_order":"354"},{"term_id":23334,"name":"cache","slug":"cache","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":23334,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":14,"filter":"raw","term_order":"366"},{"term_id":23337,"name":"web accelerator","slug":"web-accelerator","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":23337,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":8,"filter":"raw","term_order":"367"},{"term_id":20782,"name":"purge cache","slug":"purge-cache","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":20782,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1206"}]},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Alexia Papadatos","author_link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/author\/alexia\/","author_avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9dc491b1be8ef5ac4a33e742399256d17daf7e6fe70bc88cce1a7bbc06c1a406?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45080"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=45080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}