How to Set Up Vultr CDN for WordPress Websites with WP Fastest Cache
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Introduction
WP Fastest Cache is a caching plugin that minifies your WordPress files and static files to improve website performance. By integrating Vultr CDN with WP Fastest Cache, your static WordPress files are served directly from your CDN endpoint instead of your local web server files.
This article explains how to set up Vultr CDN for WordPress websites with the WP Fastest Cache plugin.
Prerequisites
Before you begin:
- Create a Vultr CDN for your WordPress website by providing the domain name as the origin URL.
- Log in to the WordPress administration dashboard.
https://example.com/wp-admin
Install WP Fastest Cache
- Navigate to the Plugins page on your main WordPress navigation bar.
- Click Add New Plugins to browse the WordPress plugins database.
- Enter the
wp fastest cachekeyword in the search field. - Find the WP Fastest Cache plugin result and click Install to add it to your WordPress site.
- Click Activate to enable the plugin.
Configure WP Fastest Cache
Find and click WP Fastest Cache on your main WordPress navigation bar to access the plugin options. Enable the following caching options in the main Settings tab:
- Cache System: Enables caching on your WordPress site using WP Fastest Cache.
- Preload: Turns on auto-caching on your WordPress site. When prompted, keep Default (Contents from Newest to Oldest) selected and select your desired Content Types to enable preloading.
- Logged-in Users: Disables cached WordPress site versions for actively logged-in users such as administrators.
- New Post: Purges your site cache every time a new post is published. When prompted, keep Clear All Cache selected and click OK to save changes.
- Update Post: Purges your site cache each time a post is updated. When prompted, select Clear All Cache to clear the full site cache when a post is updated.
- Minify HTML: Compresses your WordPress site HTML files to a smaller size.
- Minify CSS: Compresses your WordPress site CSS files to reduce the style request size.
- Gzip: Compresses all WordPress site files from the server to the client’s browser for decompressing.
- Click Submit to save your caching settings.
- Click CDN on the plugin navigation bar to configure your Vultr CDN endpoint.
- Select Other CDN Providers to open the CDN configuration page.
- Enter your Vultr CDN endpoint in the CDN URL field.
- Enter your WordPress website URL in the Origin URL field.
- Click Next to test the connection to your Vultr CDN endpoint.
- When successful, keep all File Types selected to cache with the Vultr CDN.
- Click Next to specify any additional sources to serve with the Vultr CDN.
- Click Next to set up Excluded sources you don’t want cached to the CDN.
- When successful, verify that a Ready To Go prompt displays in your CDN settings dialog.
- Click Finish to apply your CDN configuration changes and start caching your WordPress site to the Vultr CDN endpoint.
- Click Close to exit the configuration wizard and test your WordPress site CDN integration.
Test the Vultr CDN Integration
- Access your WordPress website as a site visitor in a new web browser such as Safari.
https://example.com - Right-click anywhere on your WordPress and select Inspect from the list of options.
- Select Sources within your browser inspect options to view the WordPress site sources.
- Expand your Vultr CDN endpoint from the sources list and verify all WordPress file types served through the CDN.
- Verify that your main WordPress domain hosts minor file types while major directories are offloaded to the Vultr CDN.
Note
WP Fastest Cache offloads all enabled file types to your Vultr CDN endpoint to improve your site performance. To further test the CDN integration and speed benefits, use a speed testing tool such as GTMetrix or Google Page Speed Insights and verify that your CDN actively contributes to the test results.
Conclusion
You have set up your Vultr CDN on your WordPress website with the WP Fastest Cache plugin. Depending on your cache settings, you can offload all WordPress files to improve your site speed and user experience.
Introduction WP Fastest Cache is a caching plugin that minifies your WordPress files and static files to improve website performance. By integrating Vultr CDN with WP Fastest Cache, your static WordPress files are served directly from your CDN endpoint instead of your local web server files. This article explains how…
Introduction WP Fastest Cache is a caching plugin that minifies your WordPress files and static files to improve website performance. By integrating Vultr CDN with WP Fastest Cache, your static WordPress files are served directly from your CDN endpoint instead of your local web server files. This article explains how…