# wordpress-memcached-backend

**Repository Path**: mirrors_RedisLabs/wordpress-memcached-backend

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: wordpress-memcached-backend
- **Description**: A WordPress object cache that uses the memcached (not memcache) PECL extension.
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-18
- **Last Updated**: 2026-05-09

## Categories & Tags

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## README

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## Overview

A WordPress object cache backend that implements all available methods in the [Memcached PECL extension](http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.memcached.php). For a detailed account of how this differs from a Memcache PECL backend (note the inclusion/exclusion of the "d"), read the [article I wrote on the topic](http://tollmanz.com/wordpress-memcached-object-cache/).

## Authors 

* Zack Tollman
* 10up

## Installation

1. Make sure you have installed libmemcached and PECL/memcached on your server. Note that you need to have installed PECL/memcached (note the "d"), not simply PECL/memcache (no "d").
2. Add object-cache.php to the wp-content directory. It is a drop-in file, not a plugin, so it belongs in the wp-content directory, not the plugins directory.
3. By default, the script will connect to memcached at 127.0.0.1:11211. If you want to define custom memcached locations, add the following to wp-config.php and note that this array is different than the one you define to use the original WP Memcached Object Cache:

```php
global $memcached_servers;
$memcached_servers = array(
    array(
        '127.0.0.1',
        11211
    ),
    array(
        'domain.com',
        11211
    )
);
```