How to Properly Install and Set Up WP Rocket in WordPress
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Are you working on setting up WP Rocket for your WordPress site? WP Rocket is one of the best WordPress caching plugin on the market because it offers the most comprehensive set of tools to help speed up your site. In this video, we will show you how to easily install and setup WP Rocket on your WordPress website.
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Once you install the plugin on your site you should find a new section under Settings called WP Rocket to start modifying the plugin's settings. To start we would recommend going under the caching settings and enabling caching as well as separate cache files for mobile devices. There's also the option to specify the lifespan of cache files, for most sites 10 hours is fine but if your site is very active in updates you would want to reduce the time required.
For optimizing your images to load quickly on the web, you would want to take a look at our guide here:
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Under File Optimizations, the default options are what we normally recommend but as you get further into optimizing your site it can help with speed improvements. For the media section, you can enable LazyLoad so your images only load once a user goes to a section of your site where they are visible and soon WordPress will be able to do that by default. Disabling Emojis means that it will have your users using their browser emojis rather than pulling them from your WordPress site.
Preloading gives you the ability to give a bit of a speed boost to specific pages based on your sitemap. The plugin should give you the ability to specify the URL of your sitemap or it will try to find plugin generated files. Next, for the database WordPress handles most of this cleanup automatically but the plugin does give you more power over the ability to do this.
For CDNs, they help deliver your content from a geographically closer area to your users to reduce load time. If you would like to take a look at the CDN we use on WPBeginner, we would recommend taking a look using our referral link here:
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The heartbeat tab we would recommend avoiding for most users as there are settings for beginners that can break your site but the default should not cause any issues. There are also addons for improving Google Analytics, Facebook pixel, and interactions with your hosting provider if they are using Varnish for caching.
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This video was very helpful for me. My club switched to WordPress and without any support or training.
Glad our guide was helpful!
file optimization part solved my problem thank you so much, top video
Glad it was helpful :)
Thanks, just what I needed. Forgot to measure the speed before WPRocket, so can't give figures, but it does seem faster on one specific page, one that had me concerned. Thanks.
Glad it helped!
Thank you for the info.
Our pleasure!
Very informative video. Thank you for sharing!
Glad you found our video helpful :)
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You're welcome, glad you found our video helpful :)
Thank you for this. Your videos are top-notch.
You're welcome, glad you like our videos :)
Thank you for this great tutorial!!! It improved my site by a lot! How can I optimize it een further on mobile? Google tells me that I have Modile 67 and desktop 94.
For speeding up your site we would recommend taking a look at our guide below:
www.wpbeginner.com/wordpress-performance-speed/
Thank you for the video.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you
You're welcome
Thaaaank yoooou. 12sec to 3.5sec
Glad our guide was helpful :)
Good guide!
Thank you :)
Thanks
Welcome
thank you, yes this helped a lot.
You're welcome, glad our guide was helpful :)
Use Google page speed test. That's the real deal!
Google page speed has only one checking server on USA. For me I'm using Gtmetrix tool to my customers on fiverr.
That could certainly be another option people could try :)
My results pretty much match identically the example.
Is this good enough? Or should I push more and reduce http requests?
That is a personal preference question depending on what you feel would be best for your site.
@@wpbeginner it and it isn't. I mean, are the results you have there good enough to pass web vitals for example? I know there's more variables but generally?
Hi there - I have hummingbird and smush on my wordpress site currently. Should I deactivate these plugins before I download and activate WP rocket? Thank you
Unless we hear otherwise, you should be able to keep those plugins active. If you have concerns, you would want to reach out to the plugin's support for them to clarify for you.
OK, thanks for replying.
I did not get any bump on pagespeed insights score. It stayed about the same 45 mobile and 70 - 75 on desktop. I measured after loading WP Rocket and then again after making the changes suggested in the video. Does it take some time to "kick in"?
Google could have cached the version of your site or there could also be other reasons for the slow loading that should be covered in your insights score.
What do think using other plugin with wp 🚀 . Or just this one is enough. Because I have this plugin but my website still load slow. . I don't know why
It would depend on the other plugin but you may want to reach out to WP Rocket and they can normally assist
HI Thank you for the great tutorial!
Can you explain what is the "cache preloading" ? and in which cases it should be clicked/used..
Thank you
For WP Rocket's preloading we would recommend taking a look at WP Rocket's page on it below:
docs.wp-rocket.me/article/8-how-the-cache-is-preloaded
try and buy wp rocket and cloudflare but nothing helps its stil 8mb website and 5 sec
You may want to try some of our recommendations in our guide here: www.wpbeginner.com/wordpress-performance-speed/
as well as check with cloudflare to ensure you are set up correctly
Contact me. I can increase your website speed. I am freelancer web developer.
Hi folks, I have a question regarding to WP-Rocket. What if I would like to set up this cache plugin for one of my customers? How do you manage that?
You would need to reach out to WP Rocket's support for their current stance on that.
On my website, I have an option in the top called "Managed WordPress" that enables me to flush the cache. This causes interference between WP Rocket and my WordPress site itself causing me trouble. Any possible way I can get rid of the "Managed WordPress" option and solely stick with WP Rocket?
You would want to reach out to your hosting provider as it seems like that would be something added by your host.
Great video. I just installed WP Rocket on my site. I don't want to break my site by clicking something that I don't know what will happen if I did. Are there any web developers in the states you would recommend that can help with this?
We do not have a specific web developer we would recommend, you may want to reach out to WP Rocket and they can recommend settings and possibly a developer should you want.
@@wpbeginner Thank you!
Hello Winston, Yes I am freelancer. I can help you.
If I use cloudflare, do I need jetpack? I believe jetpack is slowing my site down. If I used cloudflare cdn and deleted jetpack. How can i still monitor uptime?
If you're not actively using a feature of Jetpack you can disable it. If you're looking for alternatives, we have a few recommendations in our list below:
www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/best-alternatives-to-the-wordpress-jetpack-plugin/
Great tutorial. It seems after installing WP Rocket, my site is blank except for the header and footer, humm....any thoughts?
You would want to reach out to WP Rocket's support, you may be using a plugin that could be conflicting with WP Rocket and they would be able to assist.
I don't find any dashboard/setting after installing and activating please help me.
In that case we would recommend reaching out to WP Rocket and let them know so they can take a look at the possible reasons.
If I install monster insight, how do I avoid the google analytics tracket to be installed twice? I have site kit. do I just remove that?
Yes, we would recommend removing Google's sitekit if you're wanting to use MonsterInsights to prevent double tracking of your analytics.
After installing I went from a 73C to a 70D and from 3.18seconds to 5.08seconds. So hmmmmm that wasn't helpful
You may want to check to ensure there aren't any plugin conflicts for that kind of drop.
What does setting cache lifespan to "0" do? Not sure.
You would want to likely check with WP Rocket but that may disable caching.
Is CDN necessary for speed?
While not necessary, it is helpful
Can you schedule the plugin to empty the cache every night say at midnight
You can change the cache lifespan, as an example you can take a look at their documentation page below:
docs.wp-rocket.me/article/78-how-often-is-the-cache-updated
Real stuff starts at 3:59
Thank you for sharing the timestamp of where we start editing WP Rocket's settings.
I did all the steps and my performance improved greatly. But I have one issue i cannot fix or find the problem. The Menu from one of my Landing Pages doenst slide down anymore with the page, it remained fixed at the top, but only on mobile devices.
The other menus are working fine either on mobile or desktop...
It would depend on the source of the issue. If it works properly when WP Rocket is disabled? If so you would want to reach out to WP Rocket's support and they can normally help disable the caching for that menu.
@@wpbeginner The thing is: it was working just fine before the WP Rocket, but then when I installed and minified some of the stuff, the Menu stopped working... If I disable WP Rocket it still does not work. I think it messed something up in my theme root files
I tried to reach out to WP Rocket's team but had no feedback
It increased my scores and my desktop version of my site runs fast now. However, the mobile site seems to load slowly about 9 secs according to PageSpeed. Mostly affected by Minimize main-thread work 5.6 s, Reduce JavaScript execution time 2.6 s. Are there tips and tricks I can go through?
It sounds like there could possibly be a conflict, if you reach out to WP Rocket's support they should be able to take a look at the possible cause.
Hi, I just changed hosts and I need to enable gzip compression. The compression code in the htaccess is gone. Can you please share how I can do this? Thank you
You would want to reach out to your hosting provider and they would be able to assist.
@@wpbeginner They are not really helpful. They said they turned on server-side compression. Is that necessary with WPRocket? Gosh, I'm green and don't know what to ask for.
Multisite available?
For specifics of WP Rocket and Multisite, you would want to take a look at their page below:
docs.wp-rocket.me/article/874-how-to-use-wp-rocket-in-a-multisite-environment
I liked MaxCDN, but had issues where GoDaddy would periodically blacklist MaxCDN. I have been using KeyCDN for the last 2 years without this issue though.
Apologies that you ran into those issues.
@@wpbeginner Yea would definitely like to use MaxCDN. :)
Please help someone? I'm still getting error "Add Expired Headers" when I make GTMetrix test.. with 0% score even when I'm using WPRocket.. what should I do to fix this?? Thanks for your asnwers
You would want to reach out to WP Rocket as the plugin should add those for you.
I thing this plug in effect google analytics & the user bounce rate decrased to 60% that made me realize somthing fishy going on then I found out that because of the plug in it was showing user stayed for 2 mints in real user stay for 2 sec i have no clue why it was showing more time when its not may be cache issue
You would likely want to reach out to the plugin's support and they should be able to assist.
Well, it was easy to understand, but this video is outdated and WP rocket has been changed a lot, I think you should create another video for better demonstration.
Thank you for your feedback, we will look to update our video when we are able!
cant find minify HTML in file optimization tab
That's strange, you would likely need to reach out to WP Rocket's support if it is not in your options.
I m using Google Adsense ads in my homepage, how to optimise with WP rocket
For optimizing ads, you would want to reach out to WP Rocket for their most current recommendations.
you didnt talk about image optimization option
For optimizing images, you would want to take a look at our article below:
www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/speed-wordpress-save-images-optimized-web/
I install and setup. But no results
If you believe the plugin has not changed anything then you would want to reach out to WP Rocket's support and they should be able to assist.
Sure. Thank you
From a D to a B!!
Glad our recommendation was able to help :)
OMFG!!! Perfomance C-79 to A-92 LOL
Depending on the site, caching can offer massive improvements :)
I just did this and my GTMetrix analysis TANKED.
For an understanding GTmetrix with WP Rocket you would want to take a look at their documentation page below:
docs.wp-rocket.me/article/1445-gtmetrix-grade-dropped
@@wpbeginner I followed one of their step by steps and got it back in shape! Now...do y’all have anything on expires headers? That keeps coming up on my speed testing.
thank you
You're welcome