What Is WP Rocket? How to Install and Tune Its Settings

WP Rocket is a premium plugin with many attractive features for WordPress. With WP Rocket alone you can run your website comfortably without adding many other plugins. To help you understand WP Rocket better, Mona Media has compiled details for you on what WP Rocket is below.

What is WP Rocket?

WP Rocket is the most powerful caching tool for WordPress, with many optimization features. The WP Rocket caching plugin helps the website improve SEO rankings and and turn more visitors by loading pages faster. WP Rocket is also easy to install, user-friendly and does not conflict with other plugins.

Benefits of using WP Rocket

WP Rocket is a special kind of cache. When a user visits the website, WP Rocket creates a cached version of the page so later visits load faster. This technique improves page load speed significantly.

A fast website reduces bounce rate and improves conversion rate. When WP Rocket improves user experience, visitors judge the site as more professional and trust it more.

Page load speed is also an important factor in SEO ranking. Most websites today use WP Rocket for their SEO process and to climb the rankings.

Pros and cons of WP Rocket

WP Rocket is simple to configure, easy to use and friendly, with clear features that are easy to learn. Using WP Rocket also brings other advantages such as:

• WP Rocket works on both mobile and desktop versions.
• Makes it easy to store some files for visits on the user's device.
• Supports Cross-Origin for web fonts, helping SEO effectively and sustainably.
• Works easily alongside third-party plugins and themes.
• WP Rocket handles related tasks automatically and quickly.

Alongside the advantages, WP Rocket also has some drawbacks:

• WP Rocket only works with WordPress.
• Some similar caching tools have better features than WP Rocket. WP Rocket also cannot convert images to .webp, which is the current trend on WordPress.
• The paid and free versions differ greatly in how they can be used. The free version of WP Rocket has almost nothing outstanding.

How to install and configure WP Rocket

• Find a reputable place to buy the WP Rocket plugin and upload it to your WordPress site.
• Activate the WP Rocket plugin by going to “Settings” of WP Rocket.
• Explore WP Rocket's features and use them.

You can also turn to companies that specialize in installing plugins, designing websites and optimizing WordPress for the best support. They will install the plugins and tools you need to run WordPress as smoothly as possible.

How to use WP Rocket 

WordPress has many features worth learning. We share the basic features of the WP Rocket plugin to make it easier to use.

1. Dashboard

On the Dashboard you can use features such as:

• Clear Cache: clears all cache files.
• Preload Cache: regenerates the cache files.
• Regenerate Critical: The CSS option is an important feature for regenerating CSS.

Dashboard

2. Cache

In the Cache tab you can use features such as:

• Enable caching for mobile devices: turns on caching for mobile devices.
• Separate cache files for mobile devices: with this option, WP Rocket users can easily keep separate cache files for mobile and desktop devices.
• The important Enable caching for logged-in WordPress users feature: this feature lets WP Rocket serve cache files to logged-in accounts.

3. File Optimization

Optimizing files in File Optimization gives you access to features such as:

• Quick HTML minification.
• Easily combine Google Fonts files with the Combine Google Fonts files feature.
• Easily remove query strings from JS and CSS files with the standout Remove query strings from static resources feature.
• WP Rocket's Minify CSS files option under File Optimization compresses CSS files.

File Optimization has many standout features for removing, minifying or combining files. Many other standout features in WP Rocket are waiting for you to explore.

4. Media

In WP Rocket's media settings you can also explore features such as:

• Enable for images: turns on lazyload for images to speed up the website.
• Enable for iframes and videos: turns on lazyload for iframes and videos. This is also an important feature for optimizing website speed.
• Disable Emoji: disables emoji on WordPress.

Setting up WP Rocket media features

5. Preload

Preload is a preloading feature that makes it easy to activate XML Sitemaps and many other quick preloading features. With it, visitors reaching your WordPress site from any device, especially mobile, get pages faster.

6. Advanced Rules

This WP Rocket feature offers many options. For example:

• Never Cache URL(s): excludes URLs that WordPress should not cache.
• Never Cache Cookies feature: enter the IDs of cookies the WordPress administrator does not want cached.
• Never Cache User Agent(s): blocks user agents that WordPress should not cache.
• Always Purge URL(s): enter the URLs whose cache you want cleared. This makes publishing or updating posts easier for administrators.
• Cache Query String(s): enter the query strings that WordPress should cache.

7. Database

Database Database is commonly used for features such as:

• Revisions: deletes revisions and keeps the latest versions.
• Auto Drafts: WP Rocket's Database option deletes auto-saved drafts.
• Trashed Posts: lets the WP Rocket admin delete junk posts easily.
• Spam Comments: a standout feature that lets site administrators control and delete spam comments. To delete trashed comments once more from the Trash folder, use the Trashed Comments feature.
• Expired transients: is the feature for deleting expired transients. Or you can delete all transients with the All transients feature.

8. CDN

This is the content delivery network used to serve all files, only images, CSS and JS, only JS, or only CSS in the CDN feature. Or you can use CloudFlare which do not need to be activated.

9. Heartbeat

Heartbeat is known as an important automatic function in WordPress. With this feature, WP Rocket can give you functions such as:

• Control Heartbeat: reduces server resource usage or disables API activity so the website runs more smoothly.
• Behavior in backend: provides a friendly, easy-to-use admin interface for administrators.
• Behavior in post editor: is a handy, modern editor.

Besides these features, WP Rocket has a few more such as:

• Export settings: lets users download the WP Rocket plugin settings file to their computer.
• Import settings: lets you upload a WP Rocket plugin settings file easily.
• Rollback: is the feature that rolls WP Rocket back to an older version to avoid cases where an upgrade is incompatible with other plugins.

Contact Mona Media if you need more advice on WP Rocket. Besides WP Rocket, MONA also has hundreds of other plugins to flexibly support smoother website operation.