by Theo Gkitsos 5 (4 reviews)

Menu Caching

Name: Menu Caching
Rating: 5.0 (4 reviews)
Author: Theo Gkitsos

This plugin caches WordPress classic menus to improve page loading time.

Menu Caching ranks #9,287 among WordPress.org plugins with 400+ active installations, is #251 of 1,516 in the Performance category, a 5/5 rating from 4 reviews, and was last updated Aug 29, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v1.1.5 Current Version v1.1.5

Updated 2 weeks ago Last Update on 29 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 7 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#251 of 1,516 in Performance Top 25% by installs Downloads -44.9% this week Actively maintained

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#9,287

-11 this week

Active Installs

400+

-18.5%

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20.2

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10.8K

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Review 5 out of 5

5 (4 reviews)

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Total Progress 93%

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.1.5
Last Updated: Aug 29, 2026
Requires WP: 5.3+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Theo Gkitsos

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Reviews: 4
Support Threads: 0
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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners using classic menus, especially on medium-to-large or e-commerce sites with complex menus. It solves the performance problem of menus requiring many expensive database calls on every page load by caching the generated menu HTML.

Caches classic WordPress menus
Enable/disable caching per menu
Clear all menu cache button
Auto-purge cache on menu edit
Cache auto-purged every 10 hours
Compatible with WPRocket, W3 Total Cache
Compatible with WPML, TranslatePress

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Menu Caching

You don't have to do anything at all. As soon as you install and activate the plugin, menu caching starts working immediately. You can visit the plugin's settings under Tools > Menu Caching to disable menu caching for a specific menu, or clear the cache manually.

Yes, it does. Pages in some circumstances are not served from cache, or a cached version is not available. In these scenarios menu caching greatly reduces page load time. For more info see the respective section in the description.

Yes, there is a button on the plugin's settings under Tools > Menu Caching. You probably don't need to, though. The cache auto-refreshes frequently, and also gets flushed after you edit a menu.

Menu items like a logout link, contain a nonce for security reasons. Nonces are unique for each logged-in user session. This plugin detects automatically if a menu contains links with nonces and cache this specific menu separately for each user session. If you still have any problem with caching of a menu, or you just don't want to cache it for any reason, you can disable caching for this specific menu from the plugin's settings.

The cached menus are saved in the database in the 'wp_options' table as transients with a lifetime of 10 hours.

Cache gets automatically refreshed as a preventive measure, so that it never gets stale. Also, the 10 hours period prevents nonces from expiring, in case some of your menus contain some of them. I can't see why you might want to change it but sure you can, using the 'dc_wp_menu_caching_lifetime' filter. add_filter( 'dc_wp_menu_caching_lifetime', function( $original_value ) { return $time_in_seconds; } );

Some themes make weird things to menus. Or maybe you use a plugin that adds extra functionality to menus, like mega menus etc. This plugin works fine with most of the themes and plugins out there, but I can't promise compatibility with anything out there. If you notice anything weird in a menu after enabling this plugin, please head to this plugin's settings and disable caching for this specific menu.

No, it's not because block-based menus in block themes work in an entirely different way than classic menus. It's not going to break your site though; it won't do anything at all, so it's safe to use with a block theme.