{"id":1001644,"date":"2019-03-05T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-rocket.me\/?p=1001644"},"modified":"2021-06-25T10:55:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T08:55:28","slug":"how-to-set-up-wp-rocket-on-trellis-and-bedrock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-rocket.me\/blog\/how-to-set-up-wp-rocket-on-trellis-and-bedrock\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set Up WP Rocket on Trellis and Bedrock"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a guest post. Opinions and recommendations are the author\u2019s own and not necessarily those of WP Rocket.<\/em><\/p>\n

The team at Roots<\/a> developed two distinct products that simplify managing WordPress projects and codebases on your own server (e.g., a VPS, Digital Ocean droplet, AWS EC2 instance, etc.).<\/p>\n

These projects are Bedrock<\/a> and Trellis<\/a>, which handle server provisioning and deployments.<\/p>\n

Setting up these two projects is outside of the scope of this article (but you can see my tutorial on CSS-Tricks<\/a> about setting up Trellis): however, using WP Rocket with a Bedrock\/Trellis setup requires a bit of manual tuning which this article will cover<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Trellis and Bedrock from the Roots team are my go-to for server creation, provisioning, and management for my\u00a0web development agency<\/a>. While it does have built-in FastCGI caching which can drastically speed up your site, that only covers expensive server-side computations.
\nThere still are still other, mostly front-end optimizations that a caching plugin like WP Rocket can handle for you with minimal configuration.<\/p>\n

WP Rocket comes packed with functionality to minify your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, along with concatenating scripts (not as useful with HTTP\/2.0’s multiplexing feature), automatic lazy loading images, disable oEmbeds and emojis and more.<\/p>\n

What I hope to accomplish in this guide is a straightforward explanation of how to properly setup WP Rocket when using Trellis and Bedrock.<\/p>\n

How to start setting up WP Rocket on Bedrock<\/h2>\n

Before we get started, since Composer<\/a> powers Bedrock, we need to get WP Rocket into our project as a Composer dependency, which is not as straightforward as it may appear, at least at the time of this writing.<\/p>\n

WP Rocket offers a package on packagist.org<\/a>, the official Composer package repository, which can be found here<\/a>; however, there is an issue with one of its dependencies, a5hleyrich\/wp-background-processing<\/code>.<\/p>\n

To get around this, we need to add in a separate repository (https:\/\/github.com\/tabrisrp\/wp-background-processing) in our site’s composer.json file demonstrated below:<\/p>\n