Fastly

Installation:

You can either install from source (you\’re looking at it), or from the WordPress plugin directory.

1. To proceed with configuration you will need to sign up for Fastly and create and activate a new service (unless you already have one). Details of how to create and activate a new service can be found here. You will also need to find your Service ID and make a note of the string.
2. You will need to create an API token with the Global API access option selected. Click here for token management screen.
3. Set up the Fastly plugin inside your WordPress admin panel
4. In your WordPress blog admin panel, Under Fastly->General, enter & save your Fastly API token and Service ID
5. Verify connection by pressing TEST CONNECTION button.
6. In order to get the most value out of Fastly we recommend you upload VCL snippets from https://github.com/fastly/WordPress-Plugin/tree/master/vcl_snippets. These snippets will add code for following

– Force certain paths to be passed (not cached) e.g. wp-admin, wp-login.php
– Makes sure that logged in user sessions are never cached
– Handling for serving stale on error

You can upload them by hand or press Update VCL button in the UI.

For more information, or if you have any problems, please email us.

Note: you may have to disable other caching plugins like W3TotalCache or WP Rocket to avoid getting odd cache behaviour.

• Pulls in the Fastly API
• Integrates purging in post/page/taxonomies publishing
• Includes an admin panel in wp-admin
• Integrates some of the advanced purging options from Fastly API
• Allows to monitor purging using webhooks for slack

Using this plugin means you won’t have to purge content in Fastly when you make changes to your WordPress content. Purges will automatically happen with no need for manual intervention.

Customization

Edge Modules

Edge Modules are a framework that enables specific functions to be enabled on Fastly Edge without
the need to write VCL. Current list of functions that can be included includes

• Enable Blackfire metrics and tracing
• Set CORS headers
• Enable support for bot detection partners such as Datadome/Netacea
• Redirect one domain to another e.g. domain.com => www.domain.com
• Rewrite URLs going to a backend e.g. /sitemap.xml => /media/sitemap.xml
• Domain masking an external backend/origin

More details can be found at https://github.com/fastly/WordPress-Plugin/blob/master/EDGE-MODULES.md

Image optimization

Image Optimization is a separately contracted feature. Please contact support@fastly.com to request
pricing and activation.

Read the full description on the official page →