Breeze is a free, simple (yet powerful) and user-friendly WordPress Caching Plugin developed by the Cloudways team. It offers various options to optimize WordPress performance at various levels. It works equally great with WordPress, WordPress with WooCommerce and WordPress Multisite.
Breeze excels in the following areas:
- Performance: Breeze improves website speed and resource optimization. Other features include file level cache system, database cleanup, minification, support for Varnish cache and simplified CDN integration options.
- Convenience: Breeze is easy to install and configure directly from WordPress. Configuring Breeze is easy and most of the default options work well right out of the box. The recommended settings should work on all your WordPress websites seamlessly.
- Simplicity: Breeze is designed to be simple for all users. Just install and activate the plugin and you'll see the results instantaneously.
What makes Breeze WordPress Cache Plugin awesome is that it comes with builtin support for Varnish. If Varnish is not installed on your servers, Breeze will utilize its internal cache mechanism to boost up your WordPress site performance.
Support: We love to provide support! Post your questions on the
WordPress.org support forums, or if you are a Cloudways Customer you may ask questions on the
Cloudways Community Forum.
Special Thanks: We would like to give special mention to WP Speed Of Light for being an inspiration for Breeze.
To install the plugin via WordPress Dashboard:
- In the WordPress admin panel, navigate to Plugin > Add new
- Search for Breeze
- Click install and wait for the installation to finish. Next, click the activate link
To install the plugin manually:
- Download and unzip the plugin package - breeze.1.0.0.zip
- Upload the breeze to /wp-content/plugins/
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- Access Breeze from WordPress Admin > Settings > Breeze
1.2.2
- Add: Export settings via Command Line Interface (wp-cli).
- Add: Import settings via Command Line Interface(wp-cli).
1.2.1
- Fix: improve the handling of warning undefine index of lazy load image while enable debug mode.
- Add: Enable/Disable option of Delay JS inline scripts.
1.2.0
- Add: “noreferrer noopener” attributes tag on external links when process HTML for caching.
- Add: Preload fonts allow to text remain visible during webfont load.
- Add: Preload key request of fonts OR CSS file which load fonts from local resource.
- Add: Preload links allow to enable preload next page of application.
- Add: lazy load display images on a page only when they are visible to the user.
- Add: Minimize the impact of third-party code.
1.1.11
- Fix: Improved handling of forms using nonce in Permalinks and Options pages.
1.1.10
- Fix: Apply deferred loading at individual file.
- Fix: exclude feed url generated by plugin “Facebook for WooCommerce”.
- Fix: purge site cache in subfolder.
- Fix: Inventory stock now updated at the Cart page.
- Fix: Improved Support for the new version of the WooCommerce Booking Calendar plugin.
- Add: Compatible with EDD and cartflow plugins.
- Add: pages include shortcode has been exclude by Breeze.
1.1.9
Add: Improved handling of minification for Query stirng based exclusion in Never Cache These URLs option.
Add: Increase compatibility with Multilingual .
1.1.8
- Fix: Cache refresh issue when Varnish is disabled.
- Fix: Replaced functions deprecated in WordPress 5.5 that were causing warning messages.
- Fix: Replaced deprecated minification libraries to improve compatibility with PHP 7.x onward.
- Fix: resolved the warning generated by the Query Monitor plugin.
- Add: compatibility with PHP 7.4
1.1.7
- Fix: Add HTTP and HTTPS for validation of CDN integration.
- Fix: Custom settings for multisite will be reapplied after Breeze reactivation.
- Fix: General improvements to improve support for the WooCommerce Booking Calendar plugin.
- Fix: Improved handling of minification for Wildcard based exclusion in Never Cache These URLs option.
1.1.6
- Add: Wildcard (.*) based exclusion of pattern URL strings in Never Cache These URLs option.
- Fix: Improved validation for CDN integration.
- Fix: General improvements to support for Elementor Forms/Elementor Pro and CDN integration.
1.1.5
- Fix: Revised duration for browser cacheable objects
1.1.4
- Fix: PHP Fatal error while running commands through WP_CLI
1.1.3
- Fix: Undefine error for inline JS when JS Group file is enabled.
- Fix: Several files displayed when Group Files was enabled.
- Fix: Varnish auto purge slowed down admin area while varnish is not running.
- Fix: PDF files are not downloadable with CDN enabled.
- Fix: miscellaneous UI issues.
- Add: The Google Analytics script/tag is now excluded form Minification.
- Add: Option to enable cache for admin user.
- Add: Handling of 404 error of JS/CSS/HTML when cache files are not writeable.
- Add: Exclude @import directive from CSS Minification.
1.1.2
- Fix: Improved handling of exclusion of CSS and JS while Minification and Group Files options are enabled.
- Fix: Allow wildcard (.*) based exclusion of pattern files/URIs in exclude JS and exclude CSS fields.
- Fix: Increase the duration for leverage browser cacheable objects
1.1.1
- Fix: Removed the use of remote JS. Now uses built-in version of jQuery Libraries.
1.1.0
- Add: Optional separate cache settings for subsites.
1.0.13
- Fix: Validation of nonce.
- Fix: Remove duplication of calls in Varnish purge requests.
1.0.12
- Fix: Deprecated create_function
1.0.11
- Fix: Change wp_redirect to wp_safe_redirect to fix redirect vulnerability of URL
1.0.10
- Add: Allow Purge Cache for Editors role.
1.0.9
- Add: Option to move JS file to footer during minification
- Add: Option to deffer loading for JS files
- Add: Option to include inline CSS
- Add: Option to include inline JS
1.0.8
- Fix: Cache exclusion for pages that returns status code other than 200
1.0.7
- Fix: Grouping and Minification issues for PHP 7.1
- Fix: Cache purge after version update issue
- Fix: Increase in cache file size issue.
- Fix: Server not found error notification
- Fix: Default WP comments display not require cache purge
1.0.6
- Fix: All Multisite are now handled globally with settings being handled at network level
1.0.5
- Fix: Issue with JS minification
1.0.4
- Fix: Browser Cache issues with WooCommerce session
- Fix: Clearing Breeze rules from .htaccess upon deactivating of GZIP/Broswer Cache
- Fix: Regex fix for accepting source url's without quotes while enabling minifcation
- Add: FAQ section added
1.0.3-beta
- Fix : Disabled browser cache for WooCommerce cart, shop and account pages
- Fix : Removal of htaccess when disabling browser cache and gzip compression options
- Fix : CDN issues of not serving all the configured contents from CDN service
1.0.2-beta
- Fix : Compatibility issues of WooCommerce
1.0.1-beta
- Fix : Purging issue to allow only admin users to Purge
- Add : Feedback link
1.0.0