WassUp users looking for ways to speed up their site or blog should try WP Widget Cache plugin.

WP Widget Cache plays nicely with Wassup because it caches only the widgets on a page and does not affect other code in the document. It caches sidebar and footer widgets and allows you to customize cache settings for each widget individually. According to the author, you can achieve up 70% improvement in your site’s performance with this plugin. After installing it on my own blog and setting a cache timeout of 24 hours (86400 seconds) on all static widgets, I saw a impressive improvement in load speed, myself.

The only part of WassUp that WP Widget Cache affects is Wassup Widget. If you use this dynamic widget on your web site, you will need to set a cache timeout of between 5 to 15 minutes (300-900 seconds) in widget options to allow Wassup Widget to be refreshed periodically by WP Widget Cache.

Important note: Wassup users should install WP Widget Cache as a stand-alone cache plugin only. Do NOT install it with other page-based caching plugins like WP-Supercache or WP-Cache, as the author suggests, because those plugins are incompatible with WassUp.