{"id":1173,"date":"2020-06-23T15:43:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T15:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dopinger.com\/blog\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2024-08-02T13:20:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T13:20:26","slug":"how-to-setup-wp-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dopinger.com\/blog\/how-to-setup-wp-rocket","title":{"rendered":"How to Setup WP Rocket? (& Configuration)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
If you own a website of any kind, rather for business or just a personal blog, you probably have heard about WordPress. One of every three websites you visit is run by WordPress. There are also plugins for you to improve your website. WP Rocket is one of them. It helps you to get a faster website to put it simply. Before we go any further let’s talk about WordPress and its plugins for a little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>What Is WordPress and Its Plugins?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
WordPress is an open-source content management system that\nhelps you create and build your website. It is the most popular way for a\nseries of reasons. First of all, it is easy to use so everyone can benefit from\nit. Another good side that it’s very\nflexible. By flexible we mean that you can arrange and adjust almost everything\nwithout needing to know about programming. Talking about WordPress, maybe you\nhave come across WordPress.org and WordPress.com. There is a small but\ndistinctive difference between these two. WordPress.org is the free, self-hosted\nway of building any kind of webpage. WordPress.com is a paid service with less\nflexibility to offer. To sum up, you can use WordPress for your business\nwebsites, online stores, blogs, and almost any other kind you can think about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Come to talk about its plugins, WordPress is not enough after you set your website up. There are many plugins available to improve your website. For example, let’s talk about WP Rocket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WP Rocket<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
WP Rocket is a WordPress caching plugin available to improve\nyour website’s load time. It helps your\nvisitors load the site in the fastest way possible which decreases the chance\nof them leaving the site while just waiting for it to load. It’s really helpful\nand works efficiently. But how does it exactly work? Fundamentally this plugin\ndeletes caches on a regular basis so the load time doesn’t lag. Browser\ncaching, page caching, mobile cache files, and preloading the cache and all\nthat makes the website load slower regardless of how fast your internet is. Not\nonly a slow loading WordPress site is a reason for potential visitors to leave\nbut also search engines like Google doesn’t like slow websites. The faster\nwebsites have a priority in search rankings, which means when your site is\nfaster, you\u00b4ll appear before the slower ones.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/span>How to Install and Configure\nWP Rocket?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
After figuring out what is WP Rocket good for, let’s see how it is installed and a basic\nconfiguration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The automatic installation is pretty easy:<\/p>\n\n\n
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First of all, you need to buy WP Rocket from WordPress or directly from its website and download the zip file.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n
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Go to the WordPress panel and click Plugins>Add New Plugins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n
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Click “Upload Plugin” in the top left.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n
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Select the WP Rocket zip file and click Install Now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n
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It should be activated after.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Note: You can find some coupon codes for a discount online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Installing is not a problem but configuring some WP Rocket\nsettings can be confusing. Here is a basic set up to get the maximum\nefficiency. Right after you activate the plugin it will start cleaning your\ncache. But there are some settings you can adjust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Setting up and configuring:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Click on WP Rocket on your WordPress dashboard.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
You can use the recommended Basic Options.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Enable the Lazyload of images and videos\nespecially if you have a lot of pictures etc. on your site.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
You can also enable Mobile Cache to make the\nplug delete cache for mobile devices.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
If you have a site where users can log in,\nenable Logged in User Cache.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
You need to enable the SSL Cache button if you\nhave an SSL certificate of your site. (https:\/\/)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
If you are not a very experienced WordPress user\nit is better to leave the Files Optimization section disabled. This section\nlets you combine Google Fonts if you enable it to make sure to check the site\nfor further errors.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
It also allows you to remove query strings from\nstatic resources.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Minify CSS\/JS files<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Combine CSS\/JS Files<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Optimize CSS Delivery for these options you need\nto know which files might cause problems and exclude them. It is better to left\nall of them disabled if you are a beginner.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Last but not least, you can adjust your cache\nlifespan which tells you to clean the cache files every 24 hours or more\/less.\nIf you make this setting too short the cache will be deleted too frequently.\nThis might cause visitors to miss your latest content. It Is recommended to set\nit as 24 hours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
After you completed the setup, you can use a speed test to\nsee how much difference the plugin has made to your website’s load time. You\ncan use Google PageSpeed Insights, Google Test My Site, and Yahoo’s YSlow to\nsee it for yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n
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