Install or not??

  • Henk Barreveld

    (@henk-barreveld)


    11 years, 3 months ago

    Sorry, I don’t understand this:

    The “Description” tab says: “We recommend any WordPress and CloudFlare user use this plugin. For more best practices around using WordPress and CloudFlare, see: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/201717894-Using-CloudFlare-and-WordPress-Five-Easy-First-Steps”.

    “any WordPress and CloudFlare user”, mind you…

    If you follow the above link, you get a document of which step 1 recommends installing the CloudFlare WordPress plugin and then says, a little further down: “You also don’t need to worry about this if you activated through a hosting partner, since they already have mod_cloudflare added to their servers by default.”

    My websites are on BlueHost and SiteGround, which are both in CloudFlare’s list of hosting partners.

    Does this mean that I should NOT install the CloudFlare WordPress plugin, or am I understanding this incorrectly?

    Thanks,
    Henk

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudflare/

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  • dfritsch

    (@dfritsch)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    The primary feature of this plugin is to make sure that WordPress sees the actual IP Address for the visitor instead of a CloudFlare IP Address. If you are running on a hosting partner, they have likely already installed mod_cloudflare which will run before WordPress sees any page request and alter the IP Address to the actual visitor’s IP. In this case, the plugin isn’t needed to handle this and is optional. There is no conflict that will occur though, so it shouldn’t break the website if both mod_cloudflare and this plugin run.

    We have just released a new feature to allow WordPress sites to use our Flexible SSL, so as we add new features, there will likely be new reasons to install this plugin for CloudFlare customers.

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