Fastly

53 Quality Score

Active Installs

14/30

With only 1,000 active installs, the plugin has a narrow niche audience, which is expected for an official vendor integration rather than a mass-market tool.

Update Freshness

17/25

Last updated 2025-10-16 and tested against WordPress 6.8.0, which indicates the vendor is actively maintaining the codebase and keeping pace with core releases.

User Rating

3/15

A perfect 100 score is based on a single rating, so it carries almost no statistical weight and should not be treated as a reliable signal of user satisfaction.

Support Health

8/15

Zero support threads opened and zero resolved suggests either a quiet, well-engineered integration or, more likely, that users take issues directly to Fastly's own enterprise support channels rather than the WordPress.org forum.

WP Compatibility

11/15

Requires WordPress 4.6.2 or higher and is confirmed working through 6.8.0, but no PHP version is declared, which is a minor gap in metadata for an enterprise plugin.

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About

Integrates Fastly with WordPress publishing tools. This is the official Fastly plugin for WordPress. The official code repository for this plugin is a …

Active Installs 1k+

Rating ★★★★★ 5/5

Last Updated 2025-10-16 5:10am GMT

Requires WordPress 4.6.2+

Tested Up To 6.8.0

Security History

4 known vulnerabilities, all patched

4 Medium

Most recent: September 22, 2025

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What It Does

The official Fastly plugin wires up WordPress publishing tools with the Fastly CDN, allowing cache purges, surrogate key invalidation, and related edge interactions to fire automatically when content changes. It is intended for sites already running on Fastly's commercial CDN rather than as a standalone caching or performance solution. In practice it acts as the bridge between WordPress hooks and Fastly's API.

Who It's For

This plugin is built for enterprise sites, media publishers, and high-traffic platforms that are already paying customers of Fastly's CDN service and need WordPress to talk to it programmatically. It suits teams with dedicated infrastructure engineers who understand surrogate keys, purge APIs, and edge logic. Smaller sites without a Fastly contract will get no value from installing it.

Who Should Skip It

If you are not a Fastly customer, do not install this plugin, as it provides no caching or speed benefits on its own and adds an unnecessary dependency. Bloggers, small business sites, and most WooCommerce stores on shared hosting will be better served by mainstream caching plugins such as LiteSpeed Cache or WP Fastest Cache.

The Bottom Line

Fastly is a legitimate, vendor-maintained integration for sites already on Fastly's CDN, but its overall quality score of 56/100 reflects a niche tool with minimal community traction and almost no peer support signal. For the 99% of WordPress users not on a Fastly contract, mainstream caching plugins are a better and safer choice. Install it only if your infrastructure team specifically needs WordPress to drive Fastly purge and surrogate key workflows.

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