Title: Cloudflare not retaining settings
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Cloudflare not retaining settings

 *  [sarscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarscott/)
 * (@sarscott)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloudflare-not-retaining-settings/)
 * I’d like Cloudflare to do the minifying on my site.
 * I have the nameservers changed and working fine. I have minify turned off in 
   W3 Total cache and I have activated and filled out the Cloudflare details within
   w3 total cache.
 * The problem is, when ever I change the security level, rocket loader and minification
   settings in w3 total cache and hit save, they all go back to off!
 * I’ve tried various combos of turning them on via the cloudflare site etc all 
   of which makes no difference.
 * Am I missing something?
    Has anyone else had this issue?
 * Many thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  [muchmuch11](https://wordpress.org/support/users/muchmuch11/)
 * (@muchmuch11)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloudflare-not-retaining-settings/#post-6960808)
 * have you set the rule on clodflare to exclude admin pages and other pages like
   preview etc? it seems your admin cached so the setting never truly saved.
 *  Thread Starter [sarscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarscott/)
 * (@sarscott)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloudflare-not-retaining-settings/#post-6960873)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for pointing that out. I hadn’t. But it also didn’t help :-/
 * I’ve currently just set my nameservers back and have w3 Total Cache doing the
   minification as I couldn’t get it to work for some reason.
 *  [AJ @ WpFASTER.org](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajm_1976/)
 * (@ajm_1976)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloudflare-not-retaining-settings/#post-6960885)
 * Hi sarscott,
 * The CloudFlare extension in W3TC is not necessary and is generally more trouble
   than it is worth. So deactivate that; make sure minification is off in W3TC General
   Settings; activate your desired settings from within the CloudFlare dashboard
   itself and you should be ready to roll.
 * Be well,
    AJ

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 * Last reply from: [AJ @ WpFASTER.org](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajm_1976/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloudflare-not-retaining-settings/#post-6960885)
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