Bjorn, as usual, another amazing tut by yourself. I actually put this one into action on a new site I am working on. Eventhough my hosting provider offers a paid CDN, this actually worked out better. With a few tweaks, I was able to see a dramatic enhancement after completing the setup on Cloudflare and pointing the DNS Records was a snap and easy to propagate just as you illustrated in your tut! Great job!
Hi +WPLearningLab, +GregHyatt - I have an ssl site that i have been trying to implement cloudflare. The origin server has a GoDaddy ssl certificate. I have imported the zone files and can update my nameservers. Under Crypto tab i tried Full and Full(Strict) for SSL Often times i get an error message about Mismatch. How much downtime is required
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate these tutorials. Straight, to the point, what is taught works. All of your tutorials have really helped me make a lot more money for myself and therefore also my clients. I do have a question. Are you still recommending to use Cloudflare for websites? I believe you probably are, but just need to know the updated answer. Also, do you recommend the SSL though Cloudflare and if you do are there any known issues that I might run into when doing this? Again, I cannot express how impressed I am with your tutorials. They are simply the best.
Great presentation man, really natural... and very useful as I Just added Cloudflare as I was just not able to support from AWS Cloudfront. Though GTMetrix is somehow not able to connect to my site, but still will give it a day.
Thanks Jatin! Whenever you change a domains DNS, it takes time for things to adjust. Luckily, there was only 3 minutes between your two comments, so I think it went pretty quickly this time!
Great video and I just followed your advice and change to CF. Issue, not with you, but with the result. My GTmetrics didn't change much at all when I first checked. But then, just as I'm writing this, they improved a bit from an "F" of (33%) at "F" of (42%). Then, just did another recheck and it's back to (33%). Guess I'll live iwith a few days and see where it settles.
I'm happy to hear it Riska, thanks for watching! If you haven't yet, check out the private FB group for even more great help: facebook.com/groups/wplearninglab
Hi, You say around 7 Minute mark that "If it doesnt load then you have a problem"...How do i fix this problem? it seems I am doing everything correctly and it says its active.
Great video as always. Can you explain or do you have a video explaining how to configure subdomains in a way that Each subdomain is a separate Wordpress installation? I have searched for it everywhere and no luck so far. I think it would be very useful. Thank in advance. MM
Hello Bjorn If i may a question on AMP pages: Does Cloudflare create these amp pages for mobile as well as distribute them? Thanks in advance you and the site are awesome.. about to begin the security deals you have what a bargain!
Hi Ona, Last summer CloudFlare made an announcement that they would automatically AMP all pages if you enable that setting. I'm not sure what you mean by 'distribute'. Google should recognize that the pages are AMP and hopefully rank them better than non-amp pages. Thanks for apartment hoping on board with the security courses. They're pretty valuable, if I do say so myself :)
Looks interesting. :-) When you route your site traffic through Cloudflare, does this mean that some optimization and security plugins for Wordpress are no longer necessary? I'm thinking cache-plugins, WP Performance Score Booster, Autoptimize, iThemes Security, Wordfence, Sucuri, etc?
Thanks for your tutorial, but which sequence you did it first. 1) Godaddy domain+ Wordpress hosting then Clouldflare or 2) Godaddy+ Cloudflare then wordpress.
+Rami Botros Hi Rami, you can use a caching plugin for the features that Cloudflare doesn't provide. Every caching plugin let's you turn features on and off. You can also speed test your site with and without the caching plugin to see if there is a big difference. If there isn't then you don't need the caching plugin. I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
Thanks for this helpful video! if in the future i need to add subdomains, should I go through the same process? I see every plan is only for one website. does it mean it includes subdomains as well?
Hi Kagura, I haven't tried using subdomains on Cloudflare yet, but it looks like one account can handle the main domain and subdomains. Here's a CloudFlare help page about it: support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026440252-Understanding-Subdomain-Support I hope that helps :) Let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks for watching!
Thanks again Bjorn! Yes, according to the link the support for subdomain will be enabled upon contacting the team which also means the plan should be upgraded and is no longer free. Thanks for the information!
Hi, I have a wordpress website and I have installed cloudflare but I am noticing a problem. Whenever I try to submit a contact form on the website, I am not receiving it in the "webmail"...which is www.example.com/webmail. Can you tell me how to fix this? I am using "wp mail smtp" plugin and before installing cloudflare, I did not have an ssl certificate. Crrently the website url does show "https" instead of "http" but there is no LOCK ICON beside the url. I don't know if that is a problem. Can you please help me with this.
Hi Souvik, I haven't encountered this problem before. I would first get the green padlock on your site. You can do that following this tutorial: ua-cam.com/video/g813t2_SwYo/v-deo.html Then test it again. If that doesn't do and your SSL is through cloudflare try turning the SSL off and testing again. If you have a helpful host like Siteground they may be able to help as well. I hope that helps and thanks for watching! P.S. If you haven't yet, check out the WPLearningLab Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/wplearninglab See you there!
And now GTmetrix is working Showing 2.1 secs on a 1.01MB page. And the best part (for me) is that YSlow is showing 100% on Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) Never got this 100% on Max, Keycdn & AWS :)
If you point your DNS nameservers to Cloudflare, who manages your email? Where is your wordpress site being hosted - is it off of godaddy? Thank you for uploading this video and any help you can provide!!
Hi, you need to create specific DNS Records for your email to work. You can simply search "Enabling E-mail Through Your Webhost and CloudFlare" on UA-cam and watch the Video from Clickfunnels.
Quick questions; 1. While the name servers are updated is the website still live? 2. If we point the name servers back to GoDaddy will that effect or break the website structure in any ways?
Hi Dan, As far as I know, the website may experience an interruption while the nameserver changes propagate. If you point the nameserves back to GoDaddy (or wherever your hosting account is), it should not break the website structure in any way. I hope that helps :) Let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks for watching!
Hi Bjorn, I switched hosting and I am now with Bluehost that includes Cloudflare. I setup an account with Cloudflare with my old server, but when I log in to Cloudflare it has all my old server information. On Bluehost I can't see all the Cloudflare settings. On Bluehost it just says I have basic, and it is turned on. How do I update Cloudflare, so I can tweak Cloudflare like you did? If this stuff was genealogy, I would be in my element but running a website for me to understand takes your detailed videos. Thank-you for all your great videos!
Hi Rose, One of the big benefits of Cloudflare over KeyCDN is the security features. Cloudflare's network collects attack information from all websites that route traffic through Cloudflare. So shortly after one site is attacked and protected all sites will be protected by cloudflare blocking the attacking IPs. I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
Hi Greg, It shouldn't mess it up. Just don't use the Cloudflare SSL (which I don't cover in this tutorial anyway) and you should be fine. I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
Hi Bjorn. Your tutorials have really helped me. I have two questions. 1. I have third party domain names attached to my website, as parked domains. How do I point them to cloudflare without disconnecting from my host? 2. I have mp3 recordings embedded in my website, which are stored on Amazon S3. These seem to die when using cloudflare. The recordings work when off cloudflare. Is this normal? I would really appreciate your advice.
Hi Sally, If the third party domains are in your hosting account then you can change the DNS records for the domains and it shouldn't affect your main site. Here's a help page that hopefully helps: community.cloudflare.com/t/parking-a-domain-at-cloudflare/84979 I don't think the MP3s dying is normal behavior. Could it be that audio is taking a long to "buffer" and not actually dying?
@@wplearninglab Thanks for the rapid response, Bjorn. I'll check that out. In the mean time I've hit another issue. I'm using Yoast SEO, but the sitemaps can't be fetched by Google. I'd appreciate your advice. Many thanks. Best wishes. Sally
Hi Mike, The more plugins you have the more your site slows down and the more potential security vulnerabilities you introduce to your website. So when you can avoid using plugins, it's a good idea to avoid them. But if you find the plugin route better then go that route. I hope that helps and thanks for watching! P.S. If you haven't yet, check out the WPLearningLab Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/wplearninglab See you there!
Good question Viveca. I don't know for sure, but I just looked at their pricing and it says this for the free level: "For personal websites, blogs, and anyone who wants to explore Cloudflare." "Anyone" should include anyone including commercial use. You'd have to contact Cloudflare to confirm though.
Hey Bjorn, were you instructing us to turn on orange cloud for all A records on our sites? Most of my sites have all those A records but the cloud is grey. And oddly enough, I have one site that only shows a single A record and a single CNAME record. Where are all the other A records that appear on the other sites??
But tell me...cloudflare should be used only when you have a crowded server (lots of customers´ sites in it) or the server is not optimized for performance ? Thanks
Good question. It's the same process either way. The site I used in this video uses a different company for domain registrar and for web hosting. I hope that helps :) Let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks for watching!
Hello Sir, How many work you have done here? Only Cloudflare website add? Or Cloudflare + CDN this both activated ? Actually i'm confused did you added or not CDN here, Do i need to moved my website from NameCheap hosting to Cloudflare ?
Thanks for your help in this domain . Would you please explain why my site is broken after enabling the cloudflare ? Are there any extra efforts required to switch to https and enable the SSL certificate to it since my site is still not secure connection ?
Great video. Thanks! I've a question. If I edit any php or css file from CPanel will that changes be applied instantly on the frontend? Or I will have to do any settings in the cloudfare account?
Those changes will apply instantly to the front end. Editing CSS can be a bit of pain though because caching will make it so your changes aren't displayed even though you made them. For that you'll want to disable caching plugins, or Cloudflare caching and install the Cache Killer plugin if you're using Google Chrome. Here's a quick tutorial on it: ua-cam.com/video/CegkzTkcQq0/v-deo.html I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
Thank again for a great video. Was easily able to add Cloudflare to my Betheme WP site. I did what you said, try out different settings in the Speed Section. I selected Java, Css, Html, and tried out multiple combinations to see if they broke the site and also tested their speed each time. Honestly, I did not see any remarkable difference. On the GTmetrix, my page score was still C 76%, yslow D64, loading 3.2, 2.15MB site, and 93 requests. Any suggestions?
+Philip Chesney Hi Philip, some of it depends on the theme's coding and well. Have you tried WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache to see if those help lore with speed? I have tutorials for both of those: WP Super Cache: ua-cam.com/video/mvwIwA9ysfg/v-deo.html W3 Total Cache: ua-cam.com/video/2Q_V95ip7Pc/v-deo.html Let me know if either of those help more.
Yeah, i figured it could be because of the theme's coding. Regarding WP Super Cache and w3 total Cache, both of these plugins are currently unavailable for download on Wordpress 4.8.2. I see a message saying that they are functional, yet I am unable to download them(no download button). Is there a way around this?
Thanks for guiding through the installation. In an other tutorial i have seen a recomendation to instal the Cloudflair plugin to WP. How is our opinion on that ? i am useing super cache as well, do i ahve to check the box Aktiviere CDN Support ? Or ist it moer, like read between the lines ..... try this or that and check your loadspeed ? Thank you
Hi Samuel, My opinion of plugins is that you should use as few plugins as possible because they can add security vulnerabilities and some can slow down your site. I would use CDN on SuperCache OR Cloudflare, but not both. Like you said, I would try this or that and see which makes your site faster. I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
Can I use iThemes & WordFence both in single site? I know it can damage my site but I use these wisely I mean the options that are available in iThemes I will not enable those options in WordFence If I found something new in WordFence I only enable those new option which iThemes doesn't have. Any Problem? I mean I can use both?
Are there any advantages or disadvantages to sending email traffic through Cloudflare? If I delete those records from Cloudflare will my email stop working?
Hi Bjorn Ironside :D I would like to know why cloudflare is changing dns and Is it better to use instead of using namecheap server dns. Thanks in Advance
+Vijay Singh Hi Vijay, you're hosting account will work as normal. The difference is the traffic to your site will go through Cloudflare first and then go to your website on your regular host. Cloudflare detects your existing nameservers and saved them to your Cloudflare account. I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
If I Change my NameServer That Meas I all so change my hosting? Then in free plan how much store they will give me. And How can I manage Fille manager or other things? If I change my NameServer I can Also access My hosting cpnel ? hey What Happen after Change NameServer I have to Trafser My Site to CloudFlare host ? I'm Confuse
In this case, when you change your nameservers you are pointing traffic to Cloudflare. Cloudflare blocks the "bad" traffic and sends the good traffic to your hosting name servers (which Cloudflare auto-detected in the beginning). So the traffic ends up on your site in your original hosting account. You are not changing hosting, just changing the path of the traffic to your site. Does that make sense?
Hi Fernando, Google Analytics will work as normal when sending traffic through CloudFlare. I haven't any trouble with it. I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
I don't have a tutorial for Page Rules in Cloudflare yet, but I found these two resources in their help docs: support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172336-How-do-I-create-a-Page-Rule- www.cloudflare.com/features-page-rules/must-use-page-rules/ I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
Hi Bjorn I have a question. I did set up Cloudflare by watching your video for one of my websites last year. The website looked fine, but the problem I faced when I logged into the cpanel, the interface of the cpanel looked completely broken. It never managed to fix it. This is how I used to access the cpanel : mydomainname/cpanel I am thinking of setting up Cloudflare for another domain name to make it faster. But in case if similar thing occurs, then how do I revert to the way it was?
Hi Tasvir, To revert back to how things you were you just change your nameservers to point to your hosting account rather than Cloudflare. I can't see why only your cPanel would have been affected by it. Did you contact your host's support team to have them look at it?
Hi Bjorn, no I didnt as I had to take help someone else's help to buy it. I completely scrapped that hosting. But Now I do own my own hosting and will be able to change the name servers my self. Many Thanks for replying to my comment.
WordPress Tutorials - WPLearningLab Hi Bjorn, I think now I get the issue, you routed all the traffic to go through cloudflare including the cpanel, I think that caused the issue with cpanel.
very nice tutorial but one more question. ..Will my site homepage and posts automatically changes from to after applying cloudflare?? or i have to do some configuration in wordpress?. Please tell steps if some configuration needed. Thank you
I did that a year ago and my website crashed totally. On the cloudflare community threads they told me to check all zone records of hosting manually one by one and compare them to cloudflares' to make the similar! Which was a headache and I ended up removing it. You didn't explain in your video what "clouds" we need to turn on and off and why, you said "if you find some of these are not working and somebody says you have to change these to whatever.."..? And then you mentioned that the site may crash casually. Yes it will crash it did and there's nothing that explains this well in this video.
What happens if your domain registrar is with one company and your nameservers are changed to your hosting provider, which is another company? Will CloudFlare work?
Hi Stephen, yes it will. In your domain registrar the nameservers will be changed to send traffic to CloudFlare, then in CloudFlare the nameservers are set to send the traffic to your hosting account. I think that's the setup I had in this video. I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
hi friend can you pleas help me with this problem with coludflare which showing the settings page blank on my wordpress. and still cloudflare is active right now. also the coludflare plugin showing me warning message saying " This plugin has not been tested with your current version of WordPress".
Bjorn, thank you for a great video. I just started using it on one of my sites but now the site is down and the dns transfer has not even completed. The error message is: This site can’t provide a secure connection sitename.com uses an unsupported protocol. ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH Would you suggest I turn the Crypto settings from full to off? Thank you.
Hi Kathleen, I haven't encountered that error before, but here's some information that I found. This help page details 4 reasons for getting that error: support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170616-Why-am-I-getting-a-SSL-mismatch-error- Hopefully one of those describes your situation. For the Crypto settings I found this help page: support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170416-What-do-the-SSL-options-mean- It basically depends on the type of SSL you have. Sorry I can't be of more help!
Hi David, Good question. You can use Cloudflare and WPRocket together no problem. Cloudflare just filters traffic before it comes to your site. Then when the "clean" traffic arrives on your site, WPRocket will make it load faster. I hope that helps :) Let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks for watching!
How many times did you run it through Pingdom? Sometimes doing one-off tests skews the results. I usually run 3 to 5 tests back to back or at different times of day and average the results.
+MrAmoslemi I didn't actually add the SSL through Cloudflare. Just half demo's that part. There's no SSL on that site. I'll be adding one on a future tutorial though!
on gmetrix my grade before cloudflare was b 86 y slow d 60 fully load time 9.2 total page size 1.62 mb 74 regust after cloudflare i retested everything stayed exactly the same but some reason total load time went from 9.2 to 13.7 any thoughts.
I'm not sure, I've never used Alibaba cloud. CloudFlare just changes the path of your traffic, so it shouldn't matter where your site is hosted. I hope that helps, thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any further questions :)
+MOB HTH Good question! Nope, Cloudflare doesn't do everything so as long as your plugins aren't doing the same things as Cloudflare then you shouldn't run into any problems.
Usually not, especially if you use the CDN in CloudFlare. But you could speed test the site with a caching plugin and without. I hope that helps, thanks for watching!
WordPress Tutorials - WPLearningLab Followed the exact same steps you mentioned in the video. And, The GT Matrix score after signing up up for Cloudflare CDN turned out to be slower than it was before. So, I decided to delete my site from Cloudflare. The site is bengaloorism.com
Hi Mansur, The files are hosted in your hosting account. CloudFlare is just a path for the traffic to your site. A regular site has traffic that passes through a domain registrar where your domain was bought and then the traffic is sent to your hosting account where the website loads. The visitors doesn't know any of this, this is just how the back end system works, more or less. With CloudFlare enabled, the traffic that passes through a domain registrar where your domain was bought and then the traffic is passed through CloudFlares servers, then the traffic is sent to your hosting account where the website loads. I hope that helps :) Let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks for watching!
made my cloudfare install and see no improvement. everything that can be optimized in free acount i did. My website was loading 15-30 seconds (woocommerce with about 5000 products) and now it is loading about the same. Also chhecking on gtmetrix nothing changed. Any idea why?
Hi thanks for reaching out. Could you send a link to your homepage so that we can take a quick look. If your homepage has many requests and contains a lot of content then this is probably the reason for the issue. Regards Nickie
hi, i have been watching your videos regularly! great content can u help me with this my dns sections says "Your DNS zone file is hosted by Byethost" and do not give the options for optimization as yours is giving! i tried byethost but couldnt figure what and how to do there any help is really appreciated, thanks!
It sounds like the nameservers are pointed at Byethost your maybe you bought the domain through Byethost. Their support should be able to help you find the DNS settings. Figuring that out will be key to getting Cloudflare up and running. I'm not familiar with Byethost, so I'm not help in this case. Thanks for watching regularly! It's much appreciated.
Hello Bjorn Nice video AGAIN. I did everything you did. Exactly the same. The first test of the page is much better from the last. Can you tell me why?
Hi, I'm not sure what you mean the first test of the page is much better than the last. Do you mean speed test? Sometimes it can take up to 24 hours for the DNS changes to be fully applied across all the servers in the world. Until that happens speed testing can have in accurate results.
Hi Yes i mean about the speed test with GTmetrix. I waited for 3 days and nothing changed. My website is much worse after i make the CDN process (worse on speed tests) Do you have something in mind or i should go back to the old way?
A good rule of thumb is if it worked better the old way, go back to that way. It could be that your server is blazing fast and better than using a CDN. It's pretty rare for that to be the case, but it does happen sometimes.
Hi thanks for this wonderful Video.I have followed your all steps but I am getting Error 522. please help me out of it.. I have just started my website and I am not a tech guy
Hi Balaji, Error 522 is usually a temporary one while the DNS is completely set up. It often goes away without doing anything. Are you still getting this error?
Hi Balaji, Error 522 is usually a temporary one while the DNS is completely set up. It often goes away without doing anything. Are you still getting this error?
Thank you for reply. error 522 is still coming after I activate ssl certificate full/flexible in crypto option.. error going out when I off the ssl certificate option. what can do to solve it?
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Bjorn, as usual, another amazing tut by yourself. I actually put this one into action on a new site I am working on. Eventhough my hosting provider offers a paid CDN, this actually worked out better. With a few tweaks, I was able to see a dramatic enhancement after completing the setup on Cloudflare and pointing the DNS Records was a snap and easy to propagate just as you illustrated in your tut! Great job!
Thanks Greg! Great job to you too for making it happen in your project! Thanks for watching :)
Hi +WPLearningLab, +GregHyatt - I have an ssl site that i have been trying to implement cloudflare. The origin server has a GoDaddy ssl certificate. I have imported the zone files and can update my nameservers. Under Crypto tab i tried Full and Full(Strict) for SSL Often times i get an error message about Mismatch. How much downtime is required
One minor detail, a setting i had and after watching this, all is golden.
Thank you very much sir.
Kudos.
where's the CDN tutorial? I signed up and my gtmetrix score didn't improve. The CDN is still 0 in YSlow
Thanks a lot for all your professional videos , i always trust that you do and follow it in my website
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate these tutorials. Straight, to the point, what is taught works. All of your tutorials have really helped me make a lot more money for myself and therefore also my clients. I do have a question. Are you still recommending to use Cloudflare for websites? I believe you probably are, but just need to know the updated answer. Also, do you recommend the SSL though Cloudflare and if you do are there any known issues that I might run into when doing this? Again, I cannot express how impressed I am with your tutorials. They are simply the best.
Great presentation man, really natural... and very useful as I
Just added Cloudflare as I was just not able to support from AWS Cloudfront.
Though GTMetrix is somehow not able to connect to my site, but still will give it a day.
Thanks Jatin!
Whenever you change a domains DNS, it takes time for things to adjust. Luckily, there was only 3 minutes between your two comments, so I think it went pretty quickly this time!
Thank you! That was so helpful!
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
Great video and I just followed your advice and change to CF.
Issue, not with you, but with the result. My GTmetrics didn't change much at all when I first checked. But then, just as I'm writing this, they improved a bit from an "F" of (33%) at "F" of (42%).
Then, just did another recheck and it's back to (33%). Guess I'll live iwith a few days and see where it settles.
Any news on GTMetrix? Was there some improvement?
Thanks for the video, this was well done and very informative even 3 years later thanks!
Awesome!! It was so much easy to follow along!! Thanks a lot for this great helpful video!! :-))
+Vagabond Artist You're welcome, glad I could help. Thanks for watching!
I really enjoy your tutorial. tqvm.
Thanks and thanks for watching!
Thanks for the tutorial! This is really helpful for me 👍
I'm happy to hear it Riska, thanks for watching!
If you haven't yet, check out the private FB group for even more great help: facebook.com/groups/wplearninglab
Genuine guy
Thanks!
Seriously I'm your big fan
Thanks man, I appreciate that!
Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing 😉
You're welcome Carmelo, thanks for watching!
That's pretty much clear & helpful.
Thanks and thanks for watching!
Thanks a lot! Great and fast learning tutorial for as I was looking for...
Thanks a lot for the tutorial. Very easy to follow and it still work in 2019 ;)
You're welcome Miro, thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any questions 😀
Hi,
You say around 7 Minute mark that "If it doesnt load then you have a problem"...How do i fix this problem? it seems I am doing everything correctly and it says its active.
Awesome Channel.
You are great, Man!
Nice Video...................
very nice video. so cols
Thanks & thanks for watching!
Great video as always. Can you explain or do you have a video explaining how to configure subdomains in a way that Each subdomain is a separate Wordpress installation? I have searched for it everywhere and no luck so far. I think it would be very useful.
Thank in advance.
MM
Hello Bjorn If i may a question on AMP pages: Does Cloudflare create these amp pages for mobile as well as distribute them? Thanks in advance you and the site are awesome.. about to begin the security deals you have what a bargain!
Hi Ona,
Last summer CloudFlare made an announcement that they would automatically AMP all pages if you enable that setting. I'm not sure what you mean by 'distribute'. Google should recognize that the pages are AMP and hopefully rank them better than non-amp pages.
Thanks for apartment hoping on board with the security courses. They're pretty valuable, if I do say so myself :)
Looks interesting. :-) When you route your site traffic through Cloudflare, does this mean that some optimization and security plugins for Wordpress are no longer necessary? I'm thinking cache-plugins, WP Performance Score Booster, Autoptimize, iThemes Security, Wordfence, Sucuri, etc?
great video man
Thanks for your tutorial, but which sequence you did it first.
1) Godaddy domain+ Wordpress hosting then Clouldflare or
2) Godaddy+ Cloudflare then wordpress.
Hi Honer, I did option #1 :) Thanks for watching!
Hi,
this was awesome but I have one question please:
after using cloudflare do I have to use a caching plugin anymore or not?
thank you
+Rami Botros Hi Rami, you can use a caching plugin for the features that Cloudflare doesn't provide. Every caching plugin let's you turn features on and off.
You can also speed test your site with and without the caching plugin to see if there is a big difference. If there isn't then you don't need the caching plugin.
I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
Thank you :)
+Rami Botros You're welcome Rami, thanks for watching!
Thanks for this helpful video! if in the future i need to add subdomains, should I go through the same process? I see every plan is only for one website. does it mean it includes subdomains as well?
Hi Kagura,
I haven't tried using subdomains on Cloudflare yet, but it looks like one account can handle the main domain and subdomains. Here's a CloudFlare help page about it: support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026440252-Understanding-Subdomain-Support
I hope that helps :) Let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks for watching!
Thanks again Bjorn! Yes, according to the link the support for subdomain will be enabled upon contacting the team which also means the plan should be upgraded and is no longer free. Thanks for the information!
Hi, I have a wordpress website and I have installed cloudflare but I am noticing a problem. Whenever I try to submit a contact form on the website, I am not receiving it in the "webmail"...which is www.example.com/webmail. Can you tell me how to fix this? I am using "wp mail smtp" plugin and before installing cloudflare, I did not have an ssl certificate. Crrently the website url does show "https" instead of "http" but there is no LOCK ICON beside the url. I don't know if that is a problem. Can you please help me with this.
Hi Souvik,
I haven't encountered this problem before. I would first get the green padlock on your site. You can do that following this tutorial: ua-cam.com/video/g813t2_SwYo/v-deo.html
Then test it again.
If that doesn't do and your SSL is through cloudflare try turning the SSL off and testing again.
If you have a helpful host like Siteground they may be able to help as well.
I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
P.S. If you haven't yet, check out the WPLearningLab Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/wplearninglab See you there!
And now GTmetrix is working
Showing 2.1 secs on a 1.01MB page.
And the best part (for me) is that YSlow is showing 100% on Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Never got this 100% on Max, Keycdn & AWS :)
Not bad for a free solution at Cloudflare. Good work Jatin!
Yeah but if i can get less than 1 sec or 1500 ms speed, $20 is worth every penny...
Thanks a lot. I noticed you left SSL as flexible. Is this better than "full".
HUGE help! Thanks a bunch!
I'm happy to help, thanks for watching!
I'm happy to help, thanks for watching!
If you point your DNS nameservers to Cloudflare, who manages your email? Where is your wordpress site being hosted - is it off of godaddy? Thank you for uploading this video and any help you can provide!!
Hi. After changing the nameservers, I am no longer able to access my emails on my mobile. I use webmail. How can I fix this?
Hi, you need to create specific DNS Records for your email to work. You can simply search "Enabling E-mail Through Your Webhost and CloudFlare" on UA-cam and watch the Video from Clickfunnels.
@@bennihtm Thanks a lot.
Thanks a lot.
+Rafiqul Islam You're welcome Rafiqul, thanks for watching!
Quick questions; 1. While the name servers are updated is the website still live? 2. If we point the name servers back to GoDaddy will that effect or break the website structure in any ways?
Hi Dan,
As far as I know, the website may experience an interruption while the nameserver changes propagate.
If you point the nameserves back to GoDaddy (or wherever your hosting account is), it should not break the website structure in any way.
I hope that helps :) Let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks for watching!
Hi Bjorn,
I switched hosting and I am now with Bluehost that includes Cloudflare. I setup an account with Cloudflare with my old server, but when I log in to Cloudflare it has all my old server information. On Bluehost I can't see all the Cloudflare settings. On Bluehost it just says I have basic, and it is turned on. How do I update Cloudflare, so I can tweak Cloudflare like you did?
If this stuff was genealogy, I would be in my element but running a website for me to understand takes your detailed videos.
Thank-you for all your great videos!
Hi can you please create video compare cloudflare vs keyCDN? I'm so confused, don't know which is the best . Thanks
Hi Rose,
One of the big benefits of Cloudflare over KeyCDN is the security features. Cloudflare's network collects attack information from all websites that route traffic through Cloudflare. So shortly after one site is attacked and protected all sites will be protected by cloudflare blocking the attacking IPs.
I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
What if you already have SSL on your website but want to use Cloudflare? Will that mess it up? I have my site hosted on Hostgator currently.
Hi Greg,
It shouldn't mess it up. Just don't use the Cloudflare SSL (which I don't cover in this tutorial anyway) and you should be fine.
I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
Hi Bjorn. Your tutorials have really helped me. I have two questions.
1. I have third party domain names attached to my website, as parked domains. How do I point them to cloudflare without disconnecting from my host?
2. I have mp3 recordings embedded in my website, which are stored on Amazon S3. These seem to die when using cloudflare. The recordings work when off cloudflare. Is this normal?
I would really appreciate your advice.
Hi Sally,
If the third party domains are in your hosting account then you can change the DNS records for the domains and it shouldn't affect your main site. Here's a help page that hopefully helps: community.cloudflare.com/t/parking-a-domain-at-cloudflare/84979
I don't think the MP3s dying is normal behavior. Could it be that audio is taking a long to "buffer" and not actually dying?
@@wplearninglab Thanks for the rapid response, Bjorn. I'll check that out.
In the mean time I've hit another issue. I'm using Yoast SEO, but the sitemaps can't be fetched by Google. I'd appreciate your advice. Many thanks. Best wishes. Sally
What about the cloudflare wordpress plugin, is it needed or it is worthless?
Hi Mike,
The more plugins you have the more your site slows down and the more potential security vulnerabilities you introduce to your website. So when you can avoid using plugins, it's a good idea to avoid them. But if you find the plugin route better then go that route.
I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
P.S. If you haven't yet, check out the WPLearningLab Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/wplearninglab See you there!
Great video! Is this free even for commercial use?
Good question Viveca. I don't know for sure, but I just looked at their pricing and it says this for the free level:
"For personal websites, blogs, and anyone who wants to explore Cloudflare."
"Anyone" should include anyone including commercial use. You'd have to contact Cloudflare to confirm though.
Hey Bjorn, were you instructing us to turn on orange cloud for all A records on our sites? Most of my sites have all those A records but the cloud is grey. And oddly enough, I have one site that only shows a single A record and a single CNAME record. Where are all the other A records that appear on the other sites??
But tell me...cloudflare should be used only when you have a crowded server (lots of customers´ sites in it) or the server is not optimized for performance ? Thanks
Hi Sonny,
Sorry for the delay in responding. Cloudflare is also good for filtering out "bad" traffic which is a big benefit.
Hi
Great video
Thank you
But what if i host my sites on vps server
will it improve the performance or rather might slow it down?
cheers
Amazing Man! Thank You...
You're welcome Eric. Thanks for watching!
Excellent...
Thanks Rupesh and thanks for watching!
You are great
Thanks for sharing :)
Thanks Hadi, thanks for watching!
Is it the same process to set up if your domain name registrar and your web hosting are at two different companies ? or is it the same process ?
Good question. It's the same process either way. The site I used in this video uses a different company for domain registrar and for web hosting.
I hope that helps :) Let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks for watching!
Hello Sir,
How many work you have done here?
Only Cloudflare website add? Or Cloudflare + CDN this both activated ?
Actually i'm confused did you added or not CDN here,
Do i need to moved my website from NameCheap hosting to Cloudflare ?
answer please, i am waiting for your reply
thank you, great video.
Thanks Mark. Thanks for watching and being part of the WPLL community!
Thanks for your help in this domain .
Would you please explain why my site is broken after enabling the cloudflare ?
Are there any extra efforts required to switch to https and enable the SSL certificate to it since my site is still not secure connection ?
Cloudflare shouldn't break your site because all you doing is redirecting traffic. What is broken on the site exactly?
Great video. Thanks!
I've a question. If I edit any php or css file from CPanel will that changes be applied instantly on the frontend? Or I will have to do any settings in the cloudfare account?
Those changes will apply instantly to the front end. Editing CSS can be a bit of pain though because caching will make it so your changes aren't displayed even though you made them.
For that you'll want to disable caching plugins, or Cloudflare caching and install the Cache Killer plugin if you're using Google Chrome. Here's a quick tutorial on it: ua-cam.com/video/CegkzTkcQq0/v-deo.html
I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
Thank again for a great video. Was easily able to add Cloudflare to my Betheme WP site. I did what you said, try out different settings in the Speed Section. I selected Java, Css, Html, and tried out multiple combinations to see if they broke the site and also tested their speed each time. Honestly, I did not see any remarkable difference. On the GTmetrix, my page score was still
C 76%, yslow D64, loading 3.2, 2.15MB site, and 93 requests. Any suggestions?
+Philip Chesney Hi Philip, some of it depends on the theme's coding and well. Have you tried WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache to see if those help lore with speed? I have tutorials for both of those:
WP Super Cache: ua-cam.com/video/mvwIwA9ysfg/v-deo.html
W3 Total Cache: ua-cam.com/video/2Q_V95ip7Pc/v-deo.html
Let me know if either of those help more.
Yeah, i figured it could be because of the theme's coding. Regarding WP Super Cache and w3 total Cache, both of these plugins are currently unavailable for download on Wordpress 4.8.2. I see a message saying that they are functional, yet I am unable to download them(no download button). Is there a way around this?
Seems like Managed Wordpress on Godaddy doesn't allow it as they already claim to have another caching resource... Have you encountered this?
do i have to change back to hosting server after these what you have shown in video
for me wp fastest cashe was superior to the other cashe plugins!
It's changed and now I can only re-check it once per hour. Shame there ain't no counter or sth there. Good tutorial tho, thx
differences between cloud hosting and cloudflare? cloud hosting almost do the similar like increase load speed, security etc
Thanks a tonne mate, God Bless You brother. :)
You're welcome Abdullah, thanks for watching!
Thanks for guiding through the installation. In an other tutorial i have seen a recomendation to instal the Cloudflair plugin to WP. How is our opinion on that ? i am useing super cache as well, do i ahve to check the box Aktiviere CDN Support ? Or ist it moer, like read between the lines ..... try this or that and check your loadspeed ? Thank you
Hi Samuel,
My opinion of plugins is that you should use as few plugins as possible because they can add security vulnerabilities and some can slow down your site.
I would use CDN on SuperCache OR Cloudflare, but not both. Like you said, I would try this or that and see which makes your site faster.
I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
Alright ! Thanks for prompt response
Hi, is there any vedio about Fully Loaded Time,Total Page Size to optimize?
would changing the nameservers affect out company email service?
Hi Raj,
Depends on how you're email is hosted. Do you know if you have MX records set for your email or do you use the hosting email settings?
wouldn't changing nameservers to cloudflare from whatever hosting I'm using interfere with the site? sorry I'm new to this
Did you buy your domain through the hosting company or through a domain registrar like GoDaddy or Namecheap?
Do we need extra settings for AMP, just enable the two options it will work?
Can I use iThemes & WordFence both in single site? I know it can damage my site but I use these wisely I mean the options that are available in iThemes I will not enable those options in WordFence If I found something new in WordFence I only enable those new option which iThemes doesn't have. Any Problem? I mean I can use both?
Hey Muhammad,
Most times it's not an issue as long as you're not using them to do the same things. I would back up your site before you try it.
@@wplearninglab thanks brother.... 👍👍👍
Thanks Mate, Ur a legend
Thanks man!
You put out so much good content.....Im subscribing !
Cool, I appreciate the sub! You should check out the private FB group that I just created if you're into fb: facebook.com/groups/wplearninglab
Interesting information
It is, thanks for watching!
Great!
Are there any advantages or disadvantages to sending email traffic through Cloudflare? If I delete those records from Cloudflare will my email stop working?
Hi Bjorn Ironside :D
I would like to know why cloudflare is changing dns and Is it better to use instead of using namecheap server dns.
Thanks in Advance
Hi,
If i will change nameserver from hosting nameserver to cloudflare than my hosting account will work or not?
+Vijay Singh Hi Vijay, you're hosting account will work as normal. The difference is the traffic to your site will go through Cloudflare first and then go to your website on your regular host.
Cloudflare detects your existing nameservers and saved them to your Cloudflare account.
I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
If I Change my NameServer That Meas I all so change my hosting? Then in free plan how much store they will give me. And How can I manage Fille manager or other things? If I change my NameServer I can Also access My hosting cpnel ? hey What Happen after Change NameServer I have to Trafser My Site to CloudFlare host ? I'm Confuse
In this case, when you change your nameservers you are pointing traffic to Cloudflare. Cloudflare blocks the "bad" traffic and sends the good traffic to your hosting name servers (which Cloudflare auto-detected in the beginning). So the traffic ends up on your site in your original hosting account.
You are not changing hosting, just changing the path of the traffic to your site.
Does that make sense?
Yes, thanks. But I get a New Problem here after I change NS then I can't log in My WP ADMIN . Do you have any solution for this
Just one question: if all traffics goes to cloudflare, it means that google analytics won’t be good. Is it correct?
Hi Fernando, Google Analytics will work as normal when sending traffic through CloudFlare. I haven't any trouble with it.
I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
Hi I'm trying to set up a new page rule but I can't see how to do it on the Cloudflare menu. Could you point me in the right direction?
I don't have a tutorial for Page Rules in Cloudflare yet, but I found these two resources in their help docs:
support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172336-How-do-I-create-a-Page-Rule-
www.cloudflare.com/features-page-rules/must-use-page-rules/
I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
Hi Bjorn I have a question. I did set up Cloudflare by watching your video for one of my websites last year. The website looked fine, but the problem I faced when I logged into the cpanel, the interface of the cpanel looked completely broken. It never managed to fix it. This is how I used to access the cpanel : mydomainname/cpanel
I am thinking of setting up Cloudflare for another domain name to make it faster. But in case if similar thing occurs, then how do I revert to the way it was?
Hi Tasvir,
To revert back to how things you were you just change your nameservers to point to your hosting account rather than Cloudflare.
I can't see why only your cPanel would have been affected by it. Did you contact your host's support team to have them look at it?
Hi Bjorn, no I didnt as I had to take help someone else's help to buy it. I completely scrapped that hosting.
But Now I do own my own hosting and will be able to change the name servers my self. Many Thanks for replying to my comment.
WordPress Tutorials - WPLearningLab Hi Bjorn, I think now I get the issue, you routed all the traffic to go through cloudflare including the cpanel, I think that caused the issue with cpanel.
Hi! do i need to do any configuration after cloudflare like MaxCDN, copying API key or somethin ?
very nice tutorial but one more question. ..Will my site homepage and posts automatically changes from to after applying cloudflare?? or i have to do some configuration in wordpress?. Please tell steps if some configuration needed. Thank you
I did that a year ago and my website crashed totally. On the cloudflare community threads they told me to check all zone records of hosting manually one by one and compare them to cloudflares' to make the similar! Which was a headache and I ended up removing it.
You didn't explain in your video what "clouds" we need to turn on and off and why, you said "if you find some of these are not working and somebody says you have to change these to whatever.."..? And then you mentioned that the site may crash casually. Yes it will crash it did and there's nothing that explains this well in this video.
why no one shows video with large sites such as woocommerce home page. this is just a blog page with no multiple images.
What happens if your domain registrar is with one company and your nameservers are changed to your hosting provider, which is another company? Will CloudFlare work?
Hi Stephen, yes it will.
In your domain registrar the nameservers will be changed to send traffic to CloudFlare, then in CloudFlare the nameservers are set to send the traffic to your hosting account.
I think that's the setup I had in this video.
I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
@@wplearninglab , thank you so much. This will really help speed up my sites.
You're welcome, I'm glad I could help 😀
Hey, how are you? Quick question, how to add expire headers in wordpress websites?
thanks :)
hi friend can you pleas help me with this problem with coludflare which showing the settings page blank on my wordpress. and still cloudflare is active right now. also the coludflare plugin showing me warning message saying " This plugin has not been tested with your current version of WordPress".
Nice video, thanks. Tiny update, mine has taken over an hour and the cloudflare "check for update" server now only allows one check per hour.
Good update, thanks!
Bjorn, thank you for a great video. I just started using it on one of my sites but now the site is down and the dns transfer has not even completed. The error message is:
This site can’t provide a secure connection
sitename.com uses an unsupported protocol.
ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
Would you suggest I turn the Crypto settings from full to off? Thank you.
Hi Kathleen,
I haven't encountered that error before, but here's some information that I found. This help page details 4 reasons for getting that error: support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170616-Why-am-I-getting-a-SSL-mismatch-error- Hopefully one of those describes your situation.
For the Crypto settings I found this help page: support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170416-What-do-the-SSL-options-mean- It basically depends on the type of SSL you have.
Sorry I can't be of more help!
Thank you I appreciate your response.
No problem Kathleen, sorry I couldn't be more help.
thank u brother
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
Hello my wp guider! I use wp rocket (paid) for faster site loading. Can I use cloudflare also for better results or will mix bad those two? Thank you
Hi David,
Good question. You can use Cloudflare and WPRocket together no problem. Cloudflare just filters traffic before it comes to your site. Then when the "clean" traffic arrives on your site, WPRocket will make it load faster.
I hope that helps :) Let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks for watching!
I'm also testing this on a domain that has divi on it and although GTmetrix look good, the speed on pingdom has become worse, any idea of whats up?
How many times did you run it through Pingdom? Sometimes doing one-off tests skews the results. I usually run 3 to 5 tests back to back or at different times of day and average the results.
thanks again :-)
You're welcome, thanks again for watching!
I noticed that your example website wp-phd.com is not secure while you added the SSL through cloudflare. Do you know what's wrong?
+MrAmoslemi I didn't actually add the SSL through Cloudflare. Just half demo's that part. There's no SSL on that site. I'll be adding one on a future tutorial though!
The process is the same and I can see that you have a flexible SSL under domain summary. What more should be done to enforce the SSL certificate?
on gmetrix my grade before cloudflare was b 86 y slow d 60 fully load time 9.2 total page size 1.62 mb 74 regust after cloudflare i retested everything stayed exactly the same but some reason total load time went from 9.2 to 13.7 any thoughts.
Is that a good option with website uses Alibaba cloud as well?
I'm not sure, I've never used Alibaba cloud. CloudFlare just changes the path of your traffic, so it shouldn't matter where your site is hosted.
I hope that helps, thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any further questions :)
This is so wrong to mention about Alibaba cloud, do you know it's under China Gov monitoring? shouldn't touch it please
website not loading with Cloudflare, any suggestion please advice.
Did I miss the WP portion of this video?
meu site saiu fora do ar com esse procedimento apaguei o site no cloudflare mesmo assim nao voltou o que eu faço
Hi,
Is it wrong to use caching and security plugins in wordpress when i'm already using cloudflare?
+MOB HTH Good question! Nope, Cloudflare doesn't do everything so as long as your plugins aren't doing the same things as Cloudflare then you shouldn't run into any problems.
Thanks for answer :)
+MOB HTH You're welcome, I hope it helped!
After setting up cloudflare GTmetrix not picking my website "Onlineseoblog.com"
thanks dude
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
Is it necessary that i have a caching plugin alongside cloudfire?
Usually not, especially if you use the CDN in CloudFlare. But you could speed test the site with a caching plugin and without.
I hope that helps, thanks for watching!
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Followed the exact same steps you mentioned in the video. And, The GT Matrix score after signing up up for Cloudflare CDN turned out to be slower than it was before. So, I decided to delete my site from Cloudflare. The site is bengaloorism.com
So, where is file hosted? How cloud flare works?
Hi Mansur,
The files are hosted in your hosting account. CloudFlare is just a path for the traffic to your site. A regular site has traffic that passes through a domain registrar where your domain was bought and then the traffic is sent to your hosting account where the website loads. The visitors doesn't know any of this, this is just how the back end system works, more or less.
With CloudFlare enabled, the traffic that passes through a domain registrar where your domain was bought and then the traffic is passed through CloudFlares servers, then the traffic is sent to your hosting account where the website loads.
I hope that helps :) Let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks for watching!
made my cloudfare install and see no improvement. everything that can be optimized in free acount i did. My website was loading 15-30 seconds (woocommerce with about 5000 products) and now it is loading about the same. Also chhecking on gtmetrix nothing changed. Any idea why?
Hi thanks for reaching out. Could you send a link to your homepage so that we can take a quick look. If your homepage has many requests and contains a lot of content then this is probably the reason for the issue. Regards Nickie
super awesome
hi, i have been watching your videos regularly! great content
can u help me with this
my dns sections says "Your DNS zone file is hosted by Byethost" and do not give the options for optimization as yours is giving!
i tried byethost but couldnt figure what and how to do there
any help is really appreciated, thanks!
It sounds like the nameservers are pointed at Byethost your maybe you bought the domain through Byethost. Their support should be able to help you find the DNS settings. Figuring that out will be key to getting Cloudflare up and running.
I'm not familiar with Byethost, so I'm not help in this case.
Thanks for watching regularly! It's much appreciated.
Hello Bjorn
Nice video AGAIN. I did everything you did. Exactly the same. The first test of the page is much better from the last. Can you tell me why?
Hi,
I'm not sure what you mean the first test of the page is much better than the last. Do you mean speed test? Sometimes it can take up to 24 hours for the DNS changes to be fully applied across all the servers in the world. Until that happens speed testing can have in accurate results.
Hi
Yes i mean about the speed test with GTmetrix. I waited for 3 days and nothing changed. My website is much worse after i make the CDN process (worse on speed tests) Do you have something in mind or i should go back to the old way?
A good rule of thumb is if it worked better the old way, go back to that way. It could be that your server is blazing fast and better than using a CDN. It's pretty rare for that to be the case, but it does happen sometimes.
Hi thanks for this wonderful Video.I have followed your all steps but I am getting Error 522. please help me out of it.. I have just started my website and I am not a tech guy
Hi Balaji,
Error 522 is usually a temporary one while the DNS is completely set up. It often goes away without doing anything.
Are you still getting this error?
Hi Balaji,
Error 522 is usually a temporary one while the DNS is completely set up. It often goes away without doing anything.
Are you still getting this error?
Thank you for reply. error 522 is still coming after I activate ssl certificate full/flexible in crypto option.. error going out when I off the ssl certificate option. what can do to solve it?