How do I use ProCDN with WordPress and W3 Total Cache?
Overview
This article will cover setting up the ProCDN service with WordPress using the W3 Total Cache plugin.
Requirements
Before you start, this article has the following dependencies:
- You must already have your Customer Origin and Cname created. For information, please see: Getting started with ProCDN. Note: You will want to wait until you can go to your EdgeCast CDN domain and see your full website load before proceeding.
- WordPress installed.
- W3 Total Cache plugin installed.
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Instructions
- Log into your WordPress Dashboard as an administrator.
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Go to the settings page for the W3 Total Cache plugin. Scroll down to the Content Delivery Network section, then enable the CDN and choose Origin Pull / Mirror as the type of CDN. See Figure 1.
Figure 1. - Save these changes, and then click on the CDN configuration.
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Go down to the Configuration section for the CDN setup. Disable SSL support, then add your CDN CNAME to Replace site's hostname with: field. Save these changes, and then deploy your W3 Total Cache configuration. See Figure 2.
Figure 2.
That's it! Load up your website to make sure that everything is working. If you have missing elements on your page, check to make sure all your settings are correct. Otherwise, you may not have waited long enough for the CDN to cache all your website content.
If everything is working correctly, you can check the source code for the HTML page to make sure your images, Javascript, and stylesheets are being loaded from the CDN. You may also want to use a tool such as Pingdom Tools to test out the loading speed of your website.