Enable and Manage AccelerateWP

Take advantage of AccelerateWP to supercharge new & existing WordPress installations on our premium hosting platform and Managed WordPress hosting. AccelerateWP is tailor-made to increase the speed and performance of WordPress via advanced caching, image optimisation, minification & deferral and, 3rd-party CDN integration—all this and more through the user-friendly cPanel interface or directly via the WordPress plugin.

Sometimes, the Smart Advice tool will recommend enabling features to improve WordPress where site speed and performance drops are noticeable. Still, the optimisations in the AccelerateWP tool will enhance performance for any WordPress install. Those in the basic tier should always be utilised for basic improvements in overall performance. 

Access the AccelereateWP tool

1. Login and access your control panel.

2. For cPanel, navigate to the Software section and click AccelerateWP as shown.

2.1. For Plesk, enter the overview area for your selected domain and click to expand the sidebar revealing the AccelerateWP tool. 

Enable AccelerateWP

1. From the AccelerateWP tool click the Cog icon highlighted in the image below. 

2. Moving on this will open a modal window containing a selector for the AccelerateWP tool. 

3. Finally, click the selector moving it to the active position and turning it blue as shown in the image below. 

Enable Premium

1. From the main overview under Premium click the Cog icon as highlighted below.

2. This will open a modal window containing a selector for Critical Path CSS, Image Optimisation and Object Caching 

3. Finally, click the selectors you want to enable moving them to the active position and turning it blue as shown in the image below.

Resolve Issues

Conflicting Plugins are enabled

This issue occurs primarily on existing installs as certain software is incompatible with AccelerateWP, usually because of similar features that conflict with those found in the tool. Below is an example warning that you will see if you attempt to activate AccelerateWP whilst one of those plugins is installed, to resolve this deactivate and remove the mentioned plugins.