Title: Edge Doctor for Cloudflare®
Author: rxnwebsolutions
Published: <strong>October 30, 2026</strong>
Last modified: October 30, 2026

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# Edge Doctor for Cloudflare®

 By [rxnwebsolutions](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rxnwebsolutions/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/edge-doctor.1.0.2.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/edge-doctor/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/edge-doctor/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/edge-doctor/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/edge-doctor/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/edge-doctor/)

## Description

Edge Doctor reads your site and reports what it finds. It runs 25 checks in six 
groups and shows the results in Site Health, in the Site Health Info section, on
its own report page under Tools and through WP-CLI.

The plugin changes nothing. It does not write to Cloudflare, to your server, or 
to the settings of WordPress or of any other plugin. It stores only its own options
and transients.

The checks cover:

 * Cloudflare connection and SSL
 * Visitor IP behind Cloudflare
 * Private pages and the Cloudflare cache
 * Cloudflare features that affect WordPress
 * Requests from your server to itself
 * DNS and origin exposure

Every finding says how confident the plugin is, shows the evidence it used and links
to a guide at https://rxnwebsolutions.com/edge-doctor/checks/. When the plugin cannot
measure something reliably it reports the check as inconclusive with a reason, instead
of guessing.

Edge Doctor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Cloudflare, Inc. Cloudflare is
a registered trademark of Cloudflare, Inc.

### External services

The plugin sends HTTP requests only to your own site, including a request to /cdn-
cgi/trace on your own domain, which Cloudflare answers with information about the
connection.

One optional feature contacts a third party. When an administrator turns on the 
weekly refresh of the Cloudflare IP list, or runs wp edge-doctor ips –refresh, the
plugin requests https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/ips to download the current
IP ranges. Only standard HTTP headers are sent. No data about your site or your 
visitors is sent. The setting is off by default.

That service is provided by Cloudflare, Inc. See their terms at https://www.cloudflare.
com/website-terms/ and their privacy policy at https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/.

### Privacy

The plugin sends HTTP requests to your own site, because several checks can only
be answered by reading a real response from the edge. It has no telemetry and no
analytics. It does not store visitor IP addresses. Results are stored in your own
database and are shown only to users who can view Site Health checks. The report
you copy from the plugin masks the IP address of your server, and shows a login 
page that was moved to another address as [custom login URL].

## Screenshots

[⌊The report under Tools, Edge Doctor: a count by status, then every check, group
by group.⌉⌊The report under Tools, Edge Doctor: a count by status, then every check,
group by group.⌉[

The report under Tools, Edge Doctor: a count by status, then every check, group 
by group.

[⌊A finding opened: what the plugin saw, what to do about it, and the evidence it
read.⌉⌊A finding opened: what the plugin saw, what to do about it, and the evidence
it read.⌉[

A finding opened: what the plugin saw, what to do about it, and the evidence it 
read.

[⌊The same finding in Site Health, where each group appears as one test.⌉⌊The same
finding in Site Health, where each group appears as one test.⌉[

The same finding in Site Health, where each group appears as one test.

[⌊The printed report, with the server address and the domain masked.⌉⌊The printed
report, with the server address and the domain masked.⌉[

The printed report, with the server address and the domain masked.

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin folder to wp-content/plugins, or install it from the Plugins 
    screen.
 2. Activate the plugin.
 3. Open Tools, Edge Doctor, or open Tools, Site Health and read the Edge Doctor tests.

## FAQ

### Why does the plugin send requests to my own site?

Several checks can only be answered by looking at a real response from the edge.
The plugin requests pages on your own domain and reads the response headers. It 
never sends your administrator cookies with those requests.

### Does it change my Cloudflare settings?

No. The plugin has no Cloudflare API token and makes no changes anywhere. It reads
and reports.

### Is this plugin made by Cloudflare?

No. Edge Doctor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Cloudflare, Inc.

### What does inconclusive mean?

It means the plugin could not measure that check reliably on this site, for example
because a request to your own site failed or because the cache key ignores the query
string. The result names the reason and links to a guide.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Edge Doctor for Cloudflare®” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ rxnwebsolutions ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rxnwebsolutions/)

[Translate “Edge Doctor for Cloudflare®” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/edge-doctor)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/edge-doctor/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/edge-doctor/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/edge-doctor/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/edge-doctor/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.2

 * The report page links to the support forum on WordPress.org for reporting a false
   positive.
 * The texts for a login page that could not be confirmed now speak of the address
   WordPress gives for it, which is what has been measured since 1.0.1, and the 
   cache and Access advice names the login page wherever it was moved.

#### 1.0.1

 * The REST routes are registered on every site, also where the REST API is not 
   under /wp-json/, as in WordPress Playground.
 * The addresses of wp-admin, the login page, admin-ajax.php and the REST API come
   from WordPress, so a site in a subdirectory, a moved login page and a changed
   REST prefix are measured where they are. An address WordPress gives on another
   host, such as a single sign on page, is never asked; the address on this site
   is measured instead.
 * Requests go only to the hosts of the home and site addresses, and Basic Auth 
   credentials are added only for those hosts.
 * The copied report, the printout and wp edge-doctor –redact show a moved login
   page as [custom login URL].
 * Basic Auth credentials are validated before they are forwarded, and are not forwarded
   at all when they do not pass.
 * The report page is printed through wp_kses() with a list of the elements it uses.
 * Without dns_get_record(), stream sockets or OpenSSL the affected checks are inconclusive
   with a reason.
 * E3 is inconclusive when no request got an answer, the Cloudflare trace is read
   at the root of the domain, and the logout link is recognised in any order of 
   its parameters.

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.2**
 *  Last updated **18 hours ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.1.4**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [cache](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/cache/)[cloudflare](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/cloudflare/)
   [diagnostics](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/diagnostics/)[site health](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/site-health/)
   [ssl](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ssl/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/edge-doctor/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ rxnwebsolutions ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rxnwebsolutions/)

## Support

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