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# Enabling the LiteSpeed Cache crawler for WordPress

> This article describes how to enable the LiteSpeed Cache crawler for your WordPress site.

## About the LiteSpeed Cache crawler

Using the crawler, you can ensure that LiteSpeed Cache has up-to-date versions of your pages in its cache ready to serve immediately to visitors. Without the crawler enabled, pages may take significantly longer to load, even though you are using a caching plugin. This is because after a page expires in the cache, the next visitor to the page must wait for LiteSpeed Cache to generate a fresh copy for the cache.

## Enabling the LiteSpeed Cache crawler

To enable the LiteSpeed Cache crawler for your site, follow these steps:

1. Log in to your WordPress site as the administrator.
2. In the left sidebar, click **LiteSpeed Cache**, and then click **Crawler**:

   ![WordPress - LiteSpeed Cache - Crawler sidebar menu](https://files.readme.io/ab0a28d842c27437079e6b1127297fa47686d4ec3cb359a1904e645667937776-image.png)
3. Click the **Sitemap Settings** tab:

   ![WordPress - LiteSpeed Cache - Sitemap Settings tab](https://files.readme.io/66838ca7d1d830d8d9d2c282825bc8a7886fce2e8481da53a795b000c4986c5a-image.png)
4. In the **Custom Sitemap** text box, type the sitemap URL:

   ![WordPress - LiteSpeed Cache - Custom Sitemap text box](https://files.readme.io/ffe88d2110fdf8e491434c86c33460413c711c3dcde97e0f1cb881d8f8e8ca38-image.png)

   > 📘 Note
   >
   > The WordPress sitemap URL is typically *[https://example.com/wp-sitemap.xml](https://example.com/wp-sitemap.xml)*, where *example.com* represents your domain name. However, some WordPress plugins use a different sitemap URL. Consult the documentation for your sitemap plugin if this is the case.
5. Click **Save Changes**.
6. Click the **General Settings** tab, and then click the **Crawler** slider to **ON**:

   ![WordPress - LiteSpeed Cache - General Settings - Crawler slider](https://files.readme.io/ccd9afd0b3703f6181fc1c0fbdf6c7403718f02d47faf6594d74423651f4270b-image.png)
7. Click **Save Changes**.
8. Click the **Map** tab, and then click **Refresh Crawler Map**:

   ![WordPress - LiteSpeed Cache - Map tab - Refresh Crawler Map](https://files.readme.io/075f307095914556712b170b775083675e1cad36c4ffd05331f5e74ae7375ba8-image.png)
9. Click the **Summary** tab, and then click **Manually run**:

   ![WordPress - LiteSpeed Cache - Summary tab - Manually run](https://files.readme.io/c7863d7552ee1755b3c5604dd410543918d887dc8ef13a0def6047f870b1ef4b-image.png)

   LiteSpeed Cache starts a new crawl process immediately.

   > 📘 Note
   >
   > Depending on the size of your site, this process can take a few hours.