WP Rocket Questions

Hi @turtlegit,

So when you want to enable this plugin with a 3rd party plugin like WP rocket, I know its best practices to disable the page cache of one cache plugin as to not have conflict. But my question is there is a setting within the 3rd party tab of Super Page Cache for Cloudflare that says “Disable WP Rocket Page Cache”.

Does this disable WP rocket page cache on its own?

Unfortunately no. It used to be but now you also need to add a mu-plugin in order to make sure WP Rocket totally disable the cache features. Check this link: https://gist.github.com/isaumya/d5990b036e0ed2ac55631995f862f4b8 and follow the steps mentioned there. You need it along with the third party tab settings.

My other question is when I actually do those steps and disable Page Cache for WP Rocket. If I have WP Rocket on a daily purge, will it not perform that daily Purge or anything related to cache itself?

It is highly recommended to disable the daily purge otherwise when WP Rocket purges it will also invoke Cloudflare to purge as well. Which means your HIT ratio will be super low. You will always want to keep things in CDN cache as long as possible without purging the cache so that the request doesn’t have to come to the origin server and instead is handled by Cloudflare CDN edges.

I will also suggest you to not to use the preload cache option in both this plugin as well as WP rocket as the amount of server resouce it uses, you will not have any good benefit out of it.

In the end, you can always purge cache via cronjob but honestly if you are finding yourself to auto purge the cache after few hours or daily basis, then better not to use the plugin in the first place cause you will not be able to get the best benefits of it.

The goal of this pluigin is to cache content at the Cloudflare CDN level so requests don’t need to travel to the origin sever. But if you are constantly purging cache, then what’s the benefit of having cache?

@isaumya We need daily purge because there is many hands working on the same site. So when new content is added, changed and or deleted some human error is going happen with regards to clearing the cache. Thus I need a guaranteed purge every 24 hours just in case a client goes onto their site and see issues.

I want the wp rocket to purge and then cloudflare to purge. Because a lot of people in my team keep forgetting that I am adding clients to our cloudflare account. So when they come to me complaining about something not updating, it’s almost solely on me. And it’s almost always because of cloudflare cache.

So I just need something easy to understand, and they understand the admin bar dropdown with WP rocket “clear and preload cache” and Super Page Plugin has the same kind of dropdown.

Obviously this issue is really only to keep my client happy and more so to stop my boss from yelling at me.

Hi @turtlegit,
but when you update a page/post the plugin should auto purge the cache for that post/page even if you don’t have WP Rocket. Only if you update widget or plugin settings you need to purge manually.

@isaumya Yes, that’s the hope. I also have a team developing a domain tool that can utilize the cronjob, so I can set the auto purge to be weekly and on a week end. Something we can’t do with WP Rocket.

The thing is this is something new for me and the team, so this is more a test of concept before we make a drastic changes. It’s a lot of website and a lot of people working here. So any changes, even a simple plugin has to be discussed before implemented on a larger scale.

My task was to work with cloudflare, so I’m trying to sell the idea of cloudflare and make it work with our team the best i can.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by turtlegit.

Hi @turtlegit,
Yes I will suggest you to open a new test website and install the plugin there. Then play with the plugin and ask questions if you have any. Then once you are comfortable with the plugin and understand how it works and what it can do then go for bigger sites.