OPcache Reset for WordPress

This plugin clears OPcache after updating WordPress core, themes, and files.
Unlike other plugins, it is also compatible with WordPress updates made by Linux cron.

Requirements:

1. `cachetool`

The cachetool is a little CLI utility that is capable of talking to your PHP-FPM instance in order to clear PHP OPcache.

sudo yum -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo yum -y install cachetool

2. Set up `opcache.validate_timestamps` setting

The most efficient way to run PHP scripts of any kind in production: opcache.validate_timestamps set to Off.

In this way, any scripts are not checked for changes. This saves a lot of disk activity for PHP frameworks which have to parse dozens and dozens of scripts on every request.

Set this in your PHP-FPM configuration, or global PHP configuration and when you invoke PHP from cron:

opcache.validate_timestamps=0

Learn more.

3. WP-CLI

sudo yum -y install wp-cli

Install the plugin using WP-CLI:

wp plugin install opcache-reset --activate

That’s it. Zero configuration is required.