WordPress - The Cloudflare Blog

Speeding up your (WordPress) website is a few clicks away

June 22, 2023 2:00PM

In this blog, we will explain where the opportunities exist to improve website performance, how to check if a specific site can improve performance, and provide a small JavaScript snippet which can be used with Cloudflare Workers to do this optimization for you...

Cloudflare and WordPress.com partner to Help Build a Better Internet

March 19, 2021 2:00PM

Product News WordPress Privacy Analytics

Today we’re excited to announce a number of initiatives, starting with the integration of Cloudflare’s privacy-first web analytics into WordPress.com. This integration gives WordPress.com publishers choice in how they collect usage data and derive insights about their visitors....

Automatic Platform Optimization post-launch report

March 16, 2021 12:00PM

Automatic Platform Optimization WordPress Speed & Reliability Cache Performance

We explored almost 200 websites with the activated Automatic Platform Optimization feature in Chrome User Experience Report data. Automatic Platform Optimization consistently demonstrated better aggregate performance among sites we analyzed in TTFB, First Paint, FCP, and LCP metrics....

Yevgen Safronov

Introducing Automatic Platform Optimization, starting with WordPress

October 02, 2020 2:01PM

Birthday Week WordPress Product News Speed & Reliability TTFB

Today, we are announcing a new service to serve more than just the static content of your website with the Automatic Platform Optimization (APO) service. With this launch, we are supporting WordPress, the most popular website hosting solution serving 38% of all websites....

Garrett Galow

Building Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress using Cloudflare Workers

October 02, 2020 2:00PM

Automatic Platform Optimization Birthday Week Speed & Reliability WordPress Cloudflare Workers

zero-config edge caching and optimizations for improved performance for WordPress. Reduce WordPress plugin burden....

September 05, 2019 3:24PM

Fast WordPress Sites with Bluehost & Cloudflare Workers

WordPress is the most popular CMS (content management system) in the world, powering over a third of the top 10 million websites, according to W3Techs....

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Peter Dumanian

Cloudflare Workers , Serverless , WordPress

December 24, 2018 4:00PM

Improving HTML Time to First Byte

Fixing slow Time To First Byte by edge-caching HTML with Cloudflare Workers and automatically purging the cache when content changes....

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Patrick Meenan (Guest Author)

Speed & Reliability , Cloudflare Workers , Cloudflare Workers KV , WordPress , Cache

September 05, 2018 5:50PM

Welcome, WP Engine!

We’ve had the tremendous pleasure of working with WP Engine for nearly 5 years, starting when both companies employed less than 100 people in total....

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Rachele Gyorffy

WordPress , Security , Partners

February 01, 2017 4:53PM

Protecting everyone from WordPress Content Injection

Today a severe vulnerability was announced by the WordPress Security Team that allows unauthenticated users to change content on a site using unpatched (below version 4.7.2) WordPress....

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Ben Cartwright-Cox

WordPress , WAF , Vulnerabilities

September 19, 2016 9:00PM

CloudFlare’s new WordPress plugin

Over 25% of all websites use WordPress, and over 10% of all internet traffic flows through CloudFlare; WordPress + CloudFlare has always been a winning combination, and now with CloudFlare’s new WordPress plugin, it's easier than ever to make your site 60% faster....

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Rahul Mahajan

WordPress , Reliability , WAF , Security

October 16, 2015 6:14PM

A Look at the New WordPress Brute Force Amplification Attack

Recently, a new brute force attack method for WordPress instances was identified by Sucuri. This latest technique allows attackers to try a large number of WordPress username and password login combinations in a single HTTP request....

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Pasha Kravtsov

WordPress , php , Attacks , Reliability

April 24, 2015 1:17AM

Of Phishing Attacks and WordPress 0days

Proxying around 5% of the Internet’s requests gives us an interesting vantage point from which to observe malicious behavior. However, it also makes us a target....

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Marc Rogers

WordPress , Attacks , DDoS , Abuse

January 21, 2015 9:47PM

Flexible SSL & Wordpress: Fixing “Mixed Content” Errors

As many are aware, CloudFlare launched Universal SSL several months ago. We saw lots of customers sign up and start using these new, free SSL certificates. For many customers that didn’t already have an SSL certificate, they were able to use “Flexible SSL”....

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David Fritsch

WordPress , HTTPS , Mixed Content Errors , SSL , Security

October 14, 2014 1:16PM

Automatic protection for common web platforms

If you are a CloudFlare Pro or above customer you enjoy the protection of the CloudFlare WAF. If you use one of the common web platforms, such as WordPress, Drupal, Plone, WHMCS, or Joomla, then it's worth checking if the relevant CloudFlare WAF ruleset is enabled....

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John Graham-Cumming

WordPress , Drupal , Joomla , Vulnerabilities , Reliability