Caching Generally
- Ashley Rich. WordPress Caching: All You Need to Know. spinupwp, 2019.
- Tom McFarlin. Understanding Caching in WordPress, Part 1. 2019.
- Tom McFarlin. Understanding Caching in WordPress, Part 2. 2019.
- Tom McFarlin. Understanding Caching in WordPress, Part 3. 2019.
- Jenni McKinnon. Site Cache vs Browser Cache vs Server Cache: What’s the Difference? wp-rocket, 2019.
- Good introduction for those with little familiarity with caching at all.
- David Hayes. WordPress Caching: The Six Different Things People May Mean. wpshout, 2015.
- Milan Petrovic. Do-It-Yourself Caching Methods with WordPress. smashing magazine, 2012.
Web Server / Reverse Proxy Caching
- Colin Newcomer. Nginx Caching for WordPress: An Introduction and Tutorial. wp-rocket, 2019.
- Good high-level overview.
- Alice Orru. Varnish Cache: How It Works and How to Use It on Your WordPress Site. wp-rocket, 2019.
- Brief, high-level overview.
- Ashley Rich. Page Caching: Varnish Vs Nginx FastCGI Cache 2018 Update. spinupwp, 2018.
- From Rich’s perspective, Nginx seems like the clear winner for most use cases.
Object Caching
- Raelene Morey. What is Object Caching and How to Use It With WordPress. wp-rock, 2019.
- Provides an overview of what caching is, the different types, and dives into object caching specifically. Covers briefly using Redis. Good article!
- Jenni McKinnon. What is Redis Object Caching and How to Use It for Your WordPress Site. wp-rocket, 2019.
- Provides step-by-step instructions from installing Redis to connecting to WP.
- Alice Orru. Memcached: What Is It and How to Use It on Your WordPress Site? wp-rocket, 2019.
Page Caching
- Lucy Beer. Caching for WordPress, Explained in Plain English. wp-rocket, 2019.
- Provides a good overview of exactly page caching works.
Transients
- Tom McFarlin.
- Scott Fennell. The Deal with WordPress Transients. css-tricks, 2019.
- Daniel Pataki. Advanced WordPress Development: Working with Transients. wpumudev, 2017.
- William Tan. Using WordPress Transients to Fail Gracefully. WNET, 2015.
- Daniel Pataki. A Guide to Transients in WordPress. scotch, 2014.
- Chris Reynolds. Using Transients with WordPress to Cache All the Things! webdevstudios, 2014.
- Narayan Prusty. The Complete Guide to the WordPress Transients API. sitepoint, 2015.
- David Hayes. Understand Caching with WordPress Transients API. wpshout, 2017. *
- Fred Meyer. Three Ways to Learn the WordPress Transients API (with Pippin Williamson). wpshout, 2015.
- Includes a chapter from Up and Running; a video code walkthrough, and a screencast.
- Pippin Williamson. Introduction to the Transients API in WordPress. 2012.
- Ahmad Awais. Building a Welcome Page for Your WordPress Product: WP Transients API. tutsplus, 2016.