Website security can and should be done in layers. Cloudflare is a great cloud security service that offers protection at their globally distributed servers, before they reach your website’s origin servers. But even the best firewall rules won’t be able to stop all malicious requests crafted by smart hackers intent on finding vulnerabilities in your …
How to Integrate an .htaccess Firewall with Cloudflare Read More »
Learn how to prevent bots from bypassing Cloudflare even on shared hosting
When you have a WordPress site on Cloudflare with a Cache Everything page rule, you probably know this: everything includes preview pages! This post suggests a way to make sure Cloudflare does not cache the preview page even when you set your Cloudflare cache level to “cache everything” with a page rule. Cache Everything So …
How to Prevent Cloudflare From Caching Preview Pages Read More »
Here’s is a recurring topic at both Cloudflare’s Community forum and WordPress.org Support forums: How can I serve WebP images on a Cloudflare Free plan without breaking my website for some visitors? You want to serve the new-new image optimization format called WebP, which squeezes some bytes out of your pretty JPEG and PNG images, …
How to Serve WebP Images on a Cloudflare Free Plan Read More »
How to cache the HTML generated by WordPress at Cloudflare with only two page rules, with significant speed improvement.
Learn how to prevent bots from bypassing Cloudflare even on shared hosting
Welcome to oba!press, a blog about WordPress sites on Cloudflare. Here you’ll find optimization and security tips to make your site perform better under the protection of Cloudflare. WordPress is the most widely used blog and site creation platform in the world. About a third of all websites use WordPress, and if yours is one …