5centsCDN – WordPress CDN Plugin vs Fastly

Optimize WordPress speed and performance with 5centsCDN plugin. Get advanced caching, CDN, and seamless optimization today! Release Notes 26.06.09 (JUNE 09TH, 2026) Plugin Supports WordPress Version 7.0 Added built-in debug mode for URL rewrite tracing (define FIVECENTSCDN_DEBUG to enable) Fixed PHP 8 compatibility: array_push on null excludedPhrases Fixed PHP 8 compatibility: count() on undefined variable in zone list Fixed str_replace(“http”) mangling paths containing “http” substrings Improved error messages for better clarity and debugging Fixed issues with enabling and disabling the CDN Fixed zone list loading and display issues Fixed URL rewrite regex to match both http:// and https:// asset URLs for protocol-agnostic CDN replacement 25.4.15 (APRIL 15TH, 2025) Plugin Supports WordPress Version 6.8 24.8.16 (AUGUST 16TH, 2024) Plugin Supports WordPress Version 6.6.1 FAQs Added 24.8.12 (AUGUST 12TH, 2024) Plugin Supports WordPress Version 6.6.1 Code Improvements Improved Whole Website Acceleration 23.11.20 (NOVEMBER 20TH, 2023) Plugin Supports WordPress Version 6.4.1 Code Improvements 23.10.9 (OCTOBER 9TH, 2023) Plugin Supports WordPress Version 6.3.1 Code Improvements Improved UI/UX 23.9.1 (SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2023) Plugin Supports WordPress Version 6.3.1 Fixed Bugs that prevented Asset Acceleration to connect to CDN for some users Code Improvements 23.6.23 (JUNE 23RD, 2023) Plugin Supports WordPress Version 6.2.2 Fixed text issues in the description Improved UI/UX Code Improvements Documentation Improvements 22.11.21 (NOVEMBER 21th, 2022) Plugin Supports WordPress Version 6.1.1 Bug Fix: Asset Delivery from HTTP > HTTPS Code Improvements 22.7.27 (July 27th, 2022) Bug Fix: api call made on each page load Code Improvements 22.7.08 (July 8th, 2022) Improved Documentation Showing zone alias names 22.3.09 (March 9th, 2022) Improved UI/UX Added Asset Acceleration / Wholesite Acceleration Option to enable or disable SSL, HTTP/2 from within the plugin SSL warnings & only allow plugin to be enabled when SSL is activated in CDN Improved Purge Animations 21.6.11 (June 11th, 2021) trim trailing white spaces from the php files 21.6 (June 3rd, 2021) added register_deactivation_hook to delete the option set by the module changed 5centsCDN API version from v1 => v2 21.1 (January 29th, 2021) Change button text for saving options to ‘Save Settings’ GuzzleClient disable throwing errors on http_errors added register_uninstall_hook to delete the option set by the module 20.1 (January 8th, 2021) 5centsCDN BrandKit Update to v3 20.0 (January 22th, 2020) Initial release. Enter API key get pull zone from API Replace static links with CDN links Automatic HTTPS configuration Include or exclude specific directories or phrases Set a custom CDN hostname Show HTTP2 status and HTTP status Purge cache enabled CDN enable and disable option added

Installation: You can either install from source (you\’re looking at it), or from the WordPress plugin directory. To proceed with configuration you will need to sign up for Fastly and create and activate a new service (unless you already have one). Details of how to create and activate a new service can be found here. You will also need to find your Service ID and make a note of the string. You will need to create an API token with the Global API access option selected. Click here for token management screen. Set up the Fastly plugin inside your WordPress admin panel In your WordPress blog admin panel, Under Fastly->General, enter & save your Fastly API token and Service ID Verify connection by pressing TEST CONNECTION button. In order to get the most value out of Fastly we recommend you upload VCL snippets from https://github.com/fastly/WordPress-Plugin/tree/master/vcl_snippets. These snippets will add code for following – Force certain paths to be passed (not cached) e.g. wp-admin, wp-login.php – Makes sure that logged in user sessions are never cached – Handling for serving stale on error You can upload them by hand or press Update VCL button in the UI. For more information, or if you have any problems, please email us. Note: you may have to disable other caching plugins like W3TotalCache or WP Rocket to avoid getting odd cache behaviour. Pulls in the Fastly API Integrates purging in post/page/taxonomies publishing Includes an admin panel in wp-admin Integrates some of the advanced purging options from Fastly API Allows to monitor purging using webhooks for slack Using this plugin means you won’t have to purge content in Fastly when you make changes to your WordPress content. Purges will automatically happen with no need for manual intervention. Customization Edge Modules Edge Modules are a framework that enables specific functions to be enabled on Fastly Edge without the need to write VCL. Current list of functions that can be included includes Enable Blackfire metrics and tracing Set CORS headers Enable support for bot detection partners such as Datadome/Netacea Redirect one domain to another e.g. domain.com => www.domain.com Rewrite URLs going to a backend e.g. /sitemap.xml => /media/sitemap.xml Domain masking an external backend/origin More details can be found at https://github.com/fastly/WordPress-Plugin/blob/master/EDGE-MODULES.md Image optimization Image Optimization is a separately contracted feature. Please contact [email protected] to request pricing and activation. Once activated on service level, you will be able to enable it in your blog under Fastly->Advanced. Breakdown of IO options: Enable Image Optimization in Fastly configuration – Activating this uploads VCL that steers image traffic to the image optimization service Enable Image Optimization in WordPress - Main switch to activate IO which is needed for all other options to work. Enable adaptive pixel ratios - Switch for adaptive pixel ratios implementation. This replaces adaptive pixels srcset to format which Fastly IO can parse and replace. Initially works only on inserted attachments like featured images, but can be applied on content images if enabled. Adaptive pixel ratio sizes - Select pixel ratios that will be generated when creating image srcset html. Enable image optimization for content images - Safe switch for Image optimization of content images (due to difference from featured images, those are processed differently). To fully utilize, insert full size images in content. WordPress Hooks Available wordpress hooks (add_action) on: Editing related (purging) keys for a given post purgely_related_keys Editing surrogate keys output purgely_pre_send_keys purgely_post_send_keys functions: add_keys Editing surrogate control headers output(max-age, stale-while-revalidate, stale-if-error) purgely_pre_send_surrogate_control purgely_post_send_surrogate_control functions: edit_headers, unset_headers Edit cache control headers output (max-age) purgely_pre_send_cache_control purgely_post_send_cache_control functions: edit_headers, unset_headers Example: add_action(\’purgely_pre_send_surrogate_control\’, \’custom_headers_edit\’); function custom_headers_edit($header_object) { $header_object->edit_headers(array(\’custom-header\’ => \’555\’, \’max-age\’ => \’99\’)); } add_filter(\’purgely_related_keys\’, \’custom_related_keys\’, 10, 2); function custom_related_keys($keys_array, $post_object) { $keys_array[] = \’custom-key\’; return $keys_array; } add_action(\’purgely_pre_send_keys\’, \’custom_surrogate_keys\’); function custom_surrogate_keys($keys_object) { $keys_object->add_key(\’custom-key\’); } Note: you may have to disable other caching plugins like W3TotalCache to avoid getting odd cache behaviour. About Fastly Fastly is the only real-time content delivery network designed to seamlessly integrate with your development stack. Fastly provides real-time updating of content and the ability to cache dynamic as well as static content. For any content that is truly uncacheable, we’ll accelerate it. In addition we allow you to update your configuration in seconds, provide real time log and stats streaming, powerful edge scripting capabilities, and TLS termination (amongst many other features). License Fastly.com WordPress Plugin Copyright (C) 2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017 Fastly.com This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.