diff --git a/inc/config.php b/inc/config.php
index d399e69c..e941d6df 100644
--- a/inc/config.php
+++ b/inc/config.php
@@ -1715,3 +1715,6 @@
 
 	// Use oekaki?
 	$config['oekaki'] = false;
+
+	// Twig cache?
+	$config['twig_cache'] = false;
diff --git a/inc/instance-config.php b/inc/instance-config.php
index 9c8a326c..b5c93333 100644
--- a/inc/instance-config.php
+++ b/inc/instance-config.php
@@ -213,8 +213,10 @@ $config['show_sages'] = false;
 $config['katex'] = false;
 $config['enable_antibot'] = false;
 $config['spam']['unicode'] = false;
+$config['twig_cache'] = true;
 // 8chan specific mod pages
 require '8chan-mod-pages.php';
 	
 // Load database credentials
 require "secrets.php";
+
diff --git a/inc/template.php b/inc/template.php
index b0d7bfb2..c45fd140 100644
--- a/inc/template.php
+++ b/inc/template.php
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ function load_twig() {
 	$loader->setPaths($config['dir']['template']);
 	$twig = new Twig_Environment($loader, array(
 		'autoescape' => false,
-		'cache' => is_writable('templates') || (is_dir('templates/cache') && is_writable('templates/cache')) ?
+		'cache' => (is_writable('templates') || (is_dir('templates/cache') && is_writable('templates/cache'))) && $config['twig_cache'] ?
 			"{$config['dir']['template']}/cache" : false,
 		'debug' => $config['debug']
 	));