What is it? Simplifed

Think of your WordPress directory like a busy restaurant:

• WP Rocket is the Pre-cooked Buffet (Page Caching)

  When a customer (visitor) visits a standard page like your Homepage or About page, WP Rocket hands them a fully prepared meal right away. It saves the final, pre-built HTML page so your server doesn’t have to cook (run code) every single time someone visits.

• Redis Object Cache is the Prep Cook in the Kitchen (Database Caching)

  When a visitor uses your live search bar, they are ordering a custom dish (e.g., searching for “chinese food”). WP Rocket can’t pre-cook every possible custom search, so the order has to go back to the kitchen (your database). Redis acts as a fast prep cook that keeps chopped ingredients (frequently requested database results) sitting in super-fast RAM, so the kitchen can whip up those custom search results in a fraction of a second.

Comparison Breakdown

How to set it up

On Cpanel

• Search “Redis” and turn it on
• Updated wp-config with the following:

define( ‘WP_REDIS_SCHEME’, ‘unix’ );
define( ‘WP_REDIS_PATH’, ‘/home/parknca1/tmp/redis.sock’ );

*Hosting Nation uses Litespeed so this setup works for it. Other set ups might have different instructions.

On WordPress

• Add plugin: Redis Object Cache
• Go to settings and refresh to make sure it connected. It might take a minute or two.
• Once connected, clear cache in WP Rocket.
• Check front-end and test search functionality to ensure it all works.