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Reqad serves WordPress sites from a full-page nginx FastCGI cache, which is what makes them fast — but a cached page is only useful while it is still correct. Reqad Cache Purger, our new companion WordPress plugin, closes that gap: it clears exactly the pages that changed, the moment they change.

It is now on WordPress.org, with the source on GitHub under GPL-2.0+. You do not need to download it by hand: open Reqad → WordPress Toolkit → Manage on any tracked installation and install and activate it in one click.

What it does today (v1.1.1)

• Works with nothing configured — on a Reqad server the plugin talks to the /purge location that nginx already provides, so activating it is the whole setup.
• Automatic, targeted purging — publishing, updating, unpublishing or trashing a post or page clears its own permalink, the home page and its public taxonomy archives, instead of throwing away the entire cache.
• Manual purge button — a one-click site-wide wildcard purge from the WordPress admin bar, for when you want a clean slate.
• Terms and comments — creating, editing or deleting a term purges its archive and the home page; new and moderated comments purge the post they belong to.
• Full-cache triggers where they matter — theme switches, menu and widget changes and Customizer saves purge everything, because they can affect every page.
• WooCommerce aware — product and category changes are detected automatically and purge the shop page along with the usual targets.
• Optional cache warmer — a background WP-Cron job re-fetches purged URLs so the next visitor still gets a warm cache.
• Settings and diagnostics — a settings page with a purge-endpoint override for proxy setups, an SSL-verification toggle, WP-Cron control and a built-in cache self-test; the X-FastCGI-Cache header is registered with WordPress Site Health.
• Sensible skips — post types with no front-end URL (menu items, revisions, orders) never trigger a pointless purge.

Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+, and an nginx build with the ngx_cache_purge module — which is exactly what Reqad installs by default.

Reqad now includes a built-in File Manager — browse, edit and manage the files of any hosting account without leaving the panel.

• Account-level browsing — open it straight from the Accounts list; navigate the account home with a clickable breadcrumb and see size, permissions and modification time at a glance, with symlink awareness.
• Full file operations — upload, download, create files and folders, rename, change permissions with an owner/group/other grid, and delete single items or whole folders in bulk.
• Built-in code editor — edit text files with syntax highlighting for PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Python, shell and SQL, plus line wrapping and Ctrl+S to save.
• Archives — compress any selection to .zip or .tar.gz and download it in one click, or extract an uploaded archive into a folder of your choice.
• Secure by design — every operation runs as the account’s own user and is jailed to that account’s home directory, so files keep correct ownership and count against the right quota.

The June 2026 release focuses on hardening and modernisation across mail and PHP.

• Dovecot 2.4 & Roundcube 1.7.x — updated mail stack with improved TLS defaults and plugin compatibility.
• Isolated panel PHP-FPM master — the Reqad panel now runs under its own dedicated PHP-FPM pool with a private php.ini, hardened independently from hosted sites.
• PHP settings from the UI — recommended disable_functions, OPcache and APCu tuning are now configurable directly from the dashboard.
• Section access control — features that are disabled by the administrator now return a clean 403 instead of partially loading.

A feature-heavy month for Reqad, with improvements to WordPress management, Apache configuration and account migration.

• WordPress scanner across subfolders — detects installations at any depth, displays a path column, and uses prepared statements throughout.
• Apache hybrid PHP-FPM pools — Apache template now supports per-account PHP version switching via isolated PHP-FPM pools.
• cPanel transfer wizard — a new multi-step migration flow handles domains, PHP versions and databases in one guided process.
• Performance — accounts & email lists gained search and re-pagination; dashboard caching is notably faster.

April brings self-management capabilities and important hardening for hosted accounts.

• One-click self-update — update Reqad directly from the dashboard with a live output stream; the panel survives PHP-FPM restarts mid-update.
• Autoresponders — create, edit and delete autoresponders with start/end date ranges; all replies are DKIM-signed automatically.
• Roundcube and phpMyAdmin auto-update scripts — preserve config files and installed plugins across version upgrades.
• Per-account PHP-FPM hardening — each account gets open_basedir, disable_functions, an isolated tmp directory and separated log files.

The March release extends system-level management features significantly.

• SSH key management — add, delete and auto-convert SSH2 public keys per account from the panel UI.
• PHP Modules tab — install or uninstall PHP extensions per version with a live progress stream.
• Telemetry & update banner — Reqad now checks for new versions and shows a dashboard banner when an update is available.
• Cron jobs — full add/edit/delete management for both global server crons and per-user schedules.
• Database user passwords — change MariaDB account passwords directly from the panel.

We are excited to announce that Reqad is now open source under the GPL-3.0 license.

Reqad is a self-hosted hosting control panel designed as a modern alternative to cPanel/WHM, built in-house by Webdev SRL (Bucharest) — a company that has been running hosting infrastructure since 2002.

• Account management, email (exim/dovecot/Roundcube/SpamAssassin), DNS, SSL, MariaDB, PHP-FPM (multi-version), backups and WordPress tooling.
• Full support for Rocky Linux 8 and 9 (x86_64); arm64 support is on the roadmap.
• Nginx + PHP-FPM or Apache as the web stack.

The source code will be available on GitHub. Self-hosting is and will remain free.