_remote_ip problems

While waiting for help, I continued searching and found a fix for my problem. By the look of what I found, I guess that remote_ip doesn’t work properly with Cloudflare.

There is a code snippet very similar to the code in my prior message that was provided by my hosting company that fixed the problem. The variation that should have been added to wp-config.php is below. I included the comments from the person who provided the snippet which briefly explains the code. This was found at: https://gist.github.com/vhsu/aad62aafd2f782e826f8c0e3589b5440

// Override $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] on WordPress to retrieve the client ip for cloudflare users
// This will also correct the [_remote_ip] shortcode with contact form 7 ( wpcf7 ) or any other plugin using $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']
// Simply add the following code in the wp_config.php file and you're done.
if (isset($_SERVER["HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP"])) {
  $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] = $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP"];
}

Eric