Barry Kooij

Remkus de Vries

manatarms

icyapril

Cloudflare

Patryk

deuill

thillcf

jacobbednarz

<h4>What this plugin can do for you</h4>
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Automatic Platform Optimization (APO)
Speed up your WordPress site by up to 300% with Cloudflare’s Automatic Platform Optimization (APO) plugin. APO allows Cloudflare to serve your entire WordPress site from our edge network of over 250+ data centers worldwide ensuring fast & reliable performance for your visitors no matter where they are.
Optimizing your WordPress site with multiple plugins can be overwhelming. Take your WordPress site’s performance to the next level by switching to a single plugin for CDN, intelligent caching, and other key WordPress optimizations with Cloudflare (APO). Visit our <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/automatic-platform-optimizations-starting-with-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">announcement blog</a> to learn more about APO.
What makes APO different from other caching plugins?
The key differentiating factor between Cloudflare APO and other traditional page caching and CDN solutions is its ability to directly cache static HTML at Cloudflare’s edge. Every other plugin and CDN will cache your static assets (images, javascript, CSS), but none help you cache the actual content on your site (the HTML) using a massive edge network like Cloudflare’s.
APO intelligently caches your HTML pages and will automatically purge content from the cache that you update, so users will always see the latest content without compromising the performance of pages that haven’t been recently updated
What you get with Cloudflare APO
APO is a $5 add-on with Cloudflare’s free plan and comes with an unlimited amount of subdomains. With APO you also get to leverage many of the other benefits of Cloudflare such as Free DNS, Free Automated SSL Certificates, Free DDoS Mitigation, and more. APO is free for all paid plan users so if you have Cloudflare Pro or Business already you can just turn it on. You can compare all our plans <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/?utm_source=promo&utm_medium=social&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=g421o-pl-apo-wordpress-plans" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.
Protect your WordPress site with Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Cloudflare’s WAF is available on all our <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/?utm_source=promo&utm_medium=social&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=g421o-pl-apo-wordpress-plans" rel="nofollow ugc">paid plans</a> and comes with built-in rulesets, specifically tailored to mitigate WordPress threats and vulnerabilities. These security rules are regularly updated by our team of experts. At the flip of a switch, you’ll have your WAF up and running without any difficult adjustments to your site. With over 26 million internet properties under our protection, you can sleep easy knowing Cloudflare has your back.
<h4>Additional features</h4>
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Header rewrite to prevent a redirect loop when Cloudflare’s Universal SSL is enabled
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Change Cloudflare settings from within the plugin itself without needing to navigate to the cloudflare.com dashboard. You can change settings for cache purge, security level, Always Online, and image optimization
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View analytics such as total visitors, bandwidth saved, and threats blocked
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Support for <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-support-for-http-2-server-push-2/" rel="nofollow ugc">HTTP2/Server Push</a>
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All of Cloudflare’s performance and security benefits in a simple one-click install.

WPChef

This plugin resolves performance issues caused by brute force attacks described in the WordPress Codex here: <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Brute_Force_Attacks" rel="nofollow ugc">https://codex.wordpress.org/Brute_Force_Attacks</a>
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From WordPress Codex:
Due to the nature of these attacks, you may find your server’s memory goes through the roof, causing performance problems. This is because the number of http requests (that is the number of times someone visits your site) is so high that servers run out of memory.
A common attack point on WordPress is to hammer the wp-login.php file over and over until they get in or the server dies. You can do some things to protect yourself.
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Protection Against DDoS plugin addresses these issues very well.
It also allows to deny access to common WordPress features that get frequently attacked, like xmlrpc or RSS feeds pages.
CloudFlare users can allow or deny access for visitors from specified countries.
All checks are done via the .htaccess file so that bogus requests can’t even reach your WordPress site and get bounced at the web server level. You can also specify exactly where they can be bounced to.
<h4>Compatibility</h4>
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<li>Doesn’t have any known conflicts with any other security plugins.</li>
<li>Fully compatible with WordPress multisites.</li>
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Advanced users can get more technical information on the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/protection-against-ddos/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ page</a>.

Protection Against DDoS

We use this when a WordPress site gets bombarded with bogus traffic and see the results within minutes. We can see how HTTP requests drop right after the plugin is installed. This plugin should be a must for any site.



Works very well

Protects your login, xmlrpc and RSS feeds pages against DDoS attacks. Denies access to your site from certain countries via CloudFlare.

Cloudflare vs Protection Against DDoS