Title: Is this plugin necessary?
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Is this plugin necessary?

 *  Resolved [mertimiks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mertimiks/)
 * (@mertimiks)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-plugin-necessary-1/)
 * I try to you as least plugins as I can, because it every pluging slows down the
   website. So what is advantage of using this plugin? Why I cannot simply change
   my dns nameserver, connect to cloudflare, and leave it with default settings 
   of cloudflare?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudflare/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudflare/)

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 *  [jwineman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwineman/)
 * (@jwineman)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-plugin-necessary-1/#post-7484492)
 * Hi,
 * The only advantages of the plugin over updating the settings on CloudFlare.com
   are:
 * Protocol Rewrite: Converting http:// and https:// to // to avoid mixed content
   warnings.
 * IP Rewrite: Convert the CloudFlare IP to the visitors IP for more accurate analytics.
 * If you don’t care about either of those features then you don’t need to install
   the plugin!
 * Thanks,
    John

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 * Last reply from: [jwineman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwineman/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-plugin-necessary-1/#post-7484492)
 * Status: resolved