Title: [Plugin: WP Widget Cache] move cache from disk to memory
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP Widget Cache] move cache from disk to memory

 *  [incognito](https://wordpress.org/support/users/incognito/)
 * (@incognito)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-widget-cache-move-cache-from-disk-to-memory/)
 * Fetching the cache from disk really kills the performance benefit for some widgets.
   My recommendation is to store and fetch them from APC or memcached, preferably
   APC.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-widget-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-widget-cache/)

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 *  [curious99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/curious99/)
 * (@curious99)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-widget-cache-move-cache-from-disk-to-memory/#post-1914978)
 * would not the operating system be intelligent enough to cache frequently used
   small files? Do you need to do this explicitly?
 *  [Rishi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rishk789/)
 * (@rishk789)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-widget-cache-move-cache-from-disk-to-memory/#post-1914984)
 * This will be a very useful feature, indeed.
    [@curious99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/curious99/)–
   On the main page of my site, I have 22 queries with just APC running but only
   11 with APC + WidgetCache, so APC doesn’t automatically cache _everything_ as
   far as I can tell.
 *  [curious99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/curious99/)
 * (@curious99)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-widget-cache-move-cache-from-disk-to-memory/#post-1914985)
 * What is APC and how do I turn it on? Or memcache? how do I turn it on and determine
   what will be cached?
 * wp-widget-cache is useful once one uses supercache? My impression is that super
   cache caches the entire page, widgets and all. I have lots of widgets with lots
   of database queries, but they would rarely change (last 20 posts, last comments,
   etc)
 *  [Rishi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rishk789/)
 * (@rishk789)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-widget-cache-move-cache-from-disk-to-memory/#post-1914986)
 * Not sure what kind of server you’re on, but I wrote up a guide for [APC on shared host](http://rk.md/2011/install-apc-accelerator-bluehost-shared-host/).

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