Title: Using this plugin on local staging
Last modified: June 28, 2026

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# Using this plugin on local staging

 *  Resolved [rdhutchins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdhutchins/)
 * (@rdhutchins)
 * [3 weeks, 3 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-this-plugin-on-local-staging/)
 * Hello- when I am developing, I usually pull a copy of the site to a locally running
   instance on my machine. I’m not sure what the plugin is trying to do when the
   site URL is not a publicly available URL… It seems like it might create the Cloudflare
   Cache Rule anyway – is the preloader going to try to fill cache with my local
   copies? (I do not want this, obviously…) Does the plugin have to be removed from
   local dev instances? Does it respect WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE = development ?
 * Thanks!

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 *  Plugin Support [Poonam Namdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poonam9/)
 * (@poonam9)
 * [3 weeks, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-this-plugin-on-local-staging/#post-18953080)
 * Hi [@rdhutchins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdhutchins/),
 * The plugin does not check `WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE`, so it won’t automatically disable
   itself on local/development environments.
 * That said, you don’t need to remove it, just **don’t connect it to Cloudflare**
   on your local instance (skip entering the API token/Zone ID). Without a Cloudflare
   connection, no cache rules will be created and the preloader won’t run.
 * If you do have Cloudflare credentials configured locally, the preloader would
   make HTTP requests to your local URLs, but since Cloudflare can’t proxy local
   traffic, it would never actually populate the CDN cache, so no harm to your live
   site.
 * The safest and simplest approach for local dev: **leave the plugin installed 
   but unconfigured**.
 * Let us know if you have other questions.

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 * Last activity: [3 weeks, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-this-plugin-on-local-staging/#post-18953080)
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