Substantially increase performance of localized WordPress by caching the translation (l10n) object. Supports multiple languages.
On every pageload a localized WordPress site spends a huge amount of time setting up the translation (l10n) object. Startup for a localized site can be almost four times slower than an untranslated one.
This plugin stores the translation object between pageloads so it only has to be created once, resulting in significantly better performance (performance graph included with screenshot).
Plugin supports caching multiple languages (if you use a multi-language plugin).
Available storage: Plain file, APC (Alternative PHP Cache), or SHMOP (Shared Memory)
Screenshots
Administration interface in WordPress 2.8.4
Performance graph of loading an unmodified WordPress 2.8.4 start page
Which storage is better / faster?
The exact performance will depend on your configuration but in my testing APC is a tiny bit faster than shared memory which is a bit faster than plain file storage. Check out the plugin homepage for some graphs.
What is APC (Alternative PHP Cache)?
“The Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is a free and open opcode cache for PHP. Its goal is to provide a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code.”
It is not usually installed by default.
What is SHMOP (Shared Memory)?
SHMOP is a PHP interface to handle Unix shared memory segments. It should be available by default on Linux/Unix servers. On Windows it may be possible to enable in PHP.ini.
On some older systems (and Windows) shared memory may have problems when multiple languages are cached. (If Open slots in the debug storage information keeps decreasing you should choose a different storage type.)
How do I make files writable?
https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions
File storage write files to wp-config/cache/l10n-cache/. These directories will be created automatically if wp-config is writable at first use. Once these sub-directories are created wp-config should be kept write protected.
I want to change where the files are stored
Currently you’ll have to do it by hand. Find it at the top of wp-content/plugin/cache-translation-object/cache-translation-object-file.php
Version 1.2
- Whitelist get_locale calls to filter
Version 1.1
- Rewritten to cache multiple locales separately
- Split out admin functions into separate file
- Handle old SHM with questionable delete behaviour by relocating as necessary.
- Add storage debug info link
- Do not default to any specific storage type, make user choose
- Tell admin when something is wrong (also better error handling).
- Added plugin localization
- Added Swedish translation
Version 1.0
