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Each month the devot:ee staff picks an add-on that's especially well thought out, well built, and useful. They're add-ons that we love and think you will too!

CE Cache was chosen in April 2012.

Developer

Causing Effect - Aaron Waldon

3rd Party (Commercial)
Current Version: 1.7.4
Release Date: Apr 26, 2012

License Agreement

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Compatibility

LG Addon Updater
Multi Site Manager
Stand Alone Entry Form

Requirements

jQuery for the Control Panel

Tags

performance, cache, memcached, apc, speed, db, database, memcache, file, caching, redis, pixie dust

CE Cache allows you to store and retrieve parts of your templates (fragment caching) with file-based caching, database, APC, Redis, Memcache or Memcached. Since much of the heavy lifting doesn't have to be run on every page-load, your performance increases can be astonishing. You can also escape any parts of your cached code, so they remain dynamic (like logged_in conditionals for example). This enables you to enjoy the speed increases without sacrificing usability or functionality where you need it.

Here are some of the great things that CE Cache has to offer:

Options. You can choose to use file-based, database, APC, Redis, Memcache, or Memcached caching. You can even choose which type of caching you would like to use on a global, site-wide, and/or tag basis. Multiple drivers can be picked, so if a method-call fails for whatever reason, it can fallback to the next driver down the line and try again until it succeeds.
Speed. CE Cache is fast, and generally results in much faster page loads.
Flexibility. You can cache items globally (accessible by id from anywhere in your site), or non-globally (accessible by id per page). You can also specify the cache times down to the second.
Plays well with others. CE Cache can work alongside the native EE caching. They can be used in the same template together.
Partial Caching. If you want to cache a huge chunk of content except for a few parts, you can easily escape that content so that it will remain dynamic.
Cache Breaking. You can now specify individual items ids, items tagged with a certain word, or even items within a path to be deleted (and optionally refreshed again) when an entry from 1 or more channels is updated.
Cache Refreshing. Non-global items can optionally be refreshed after they are deleted, saving you from having to go back to the deleted URL(s) to manually refresh the respective page(s). You can also specify a delay from 0 to 5 seconds to remove and refresh each item, which spares your server the load of trying to recreate all the items at once.
Convenience. There is an easy-to-use Control Panel UI for managing your cached content. Your cached items are organized into an intuitive hierarchy, and you can quickly find, view, and delete them for each of the supported drivers on an individual, path, site-wide, or driver-wide level.

CE Cache Links

CE Cache User Guide

Hooks Used

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This entry was last updated April 26, 2012, 9:37 am.

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