Based on our record, WP Rocket seems to be a lot more popular than Duplicator Pro. While we know about 13 links to WP Rocket, we've tracked only 1 mention of Duplicator Pro. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
2, The logical way would be to develop the site on a staging/ dev server then move it to their live site when ready. A few things, again, need to be considered, but, for a straightforward swap, you can use a plugin like Duplicator Pro to 'duplicate' your updated version and overwrite the live site when ready. Source: over 2 years ago
I also like WP Rocket's database cleaning tool: https://wp-rocket.me/. Source: about 1 year ago
This will have a serious impact based on that kind of database. A good caching plug-in like WP Rocket should help with the overheads and speed things up. If you have server side caching like memcached or lighspeed make sure you are utilising it. Source: about 1 year ago
Purchase a license from the WP Rocket website (https://wp-rocket.me/). Source: about 1 year ago
Sounds like your colleague bought a nulled/"GPL free" copy of WP Rocket - probably not purchased from https://wp-rocket.me/. Source: about 1 year ago
One of the most beloved WordPress caching plugins is WP Rocket. They’ve managed to take something complex and make it extremely easy, yet still powerful and configurable. They have also made it easy to integrate with a CDN in just a few clicks. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago
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