Title: Wordfence blocking CloudFlare
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Wordfence blocking CloudFlare

 *  Resolved [shrewdies](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shrewdies/)
 * (@shrewdies)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-blocking-cloudflare/)
 * I have Wordfence on several sites, but one of them is blocking CloudFlare.
 * I’ve checked the configuration of Wordfence options, and CloudFlare settings,
   and as far as I can tell they are similar on all my sites.
 * As Google robots access through CloudFlare, they are being identified by Wordfence
   as fake crawlers and getting blocked. Because of this, Google has stopped crawling
   this particular websie, and my traffic has died.
 * I’ve deactivated Wordfence for now, but I hate losing the benefits it brings 
   in security and speed.
 * Is there a specific setting somewhere that could cause this that I might have
   overlooked?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  [damoncloudflare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/damoncloudflare/)
 * (@damoncloudflare)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-blocking-cloudflare/#post-5435133)
 * Hi,
 * I’m thinking that WordFence might be seeing our ips because we’re a reverse proxy.
   Do you have the [CloudFlare WordPress plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudflare/)
   or [mod_cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/resources-downloads) installed?
 *  Thread Starter [shrewdies](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shrewdies/)
 * (@shrewdies)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-blocking-cloudflare/#post-5435137)
 * [@damoncloudflare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/damoncloudflare/) You,
   sir, are a genius. The one thing I overlooked was CloudFlare plugin installation.
   Now installed and Wordfence reactivated.
 * I hope this solves my problem, and I will report back soon to confirm or otherwise.
 *  [WFSupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/)
 * (@wfsupport)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-blocking-cloudflare/#post-5435144)
 * Thanks Damon!
 * tim
 *  [damoncloudflare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/damoncloudflare/)
 * (@damoncloudflare)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-blocking-cloudflare/#post-5435145)
 * Hope that’s it. Let us know if that works!
 *  Thread Starter [shrewdies](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shrewdies/)
 * (@shrewdies)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-blocking-cloudflare/#post-5435250)
 * Thanks all!
 * I can confirm that this problem was due to my oversight in failing to install
   the CloudFlare plugin. Now safe and fast due to Wordfence+CloufFlare combo: in
   fact, [faster than 93% of all tested websites](http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/elHIgS/http://foodary.com/52/acid-alkaline-beverages-chart/),
   according to Pingdom.
 *  [etrnluv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etrnluv/)
 * (@etrnluv)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-blocking-cloudflare/#post-5435398)
 * I am having the same issue, but with mine, the site is loading when URL is typed
   in normally. But not working when using the WWW in front of the domain. Wordfence
   blocks it. I have installed the CloudFlare plugin and it is still blocking the
   [http://www.genscripts.com](http://www.genscripts.com) and not genscripts.com
   PLEASE HELP!!

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