Make use of Cloudflare R2 and Images

Hi,
cloudflare images is a totally different system which involve uploading the image on cloudlfare images and then serve it with their custom URL for different sites, so WordPress will have almost no control over the image sites and generation. This is something we have talked internally and hopefully in future we will release a separate paid plugin for that. But it is not in the score of this plugin.

Regarding the R2 storage, you can enable the tiered cache inside Cloudflare dashboard and then also apply for the new Cloudflare Cache Reserve feature. Read more here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cache-reserve/

@isaumya there are plugins that can handle images from storage look at Media Cloud. It’s for s3, but still Cloudflare has robust apis so this should be possible.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by hardtruth3456.

Hi @hardtruth3456,
Cloudflare has 2 ways of handling/optimizing images. One is CF Polish which is available for CF Pro or higher plan. In this case, when you serve the images from your server, CF will intercept the request and optimize the image, cache it, and server that in WebP or normal format. CF Polish also has unlimited image optimization and bandwidth.

Cloudflare also has another service called Cloudflare Images, where you will upload one main image to Cloudflare Server, and then using the API and URL parameters you will access, and modify the image however you like. Link: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-images/

But this is pay per use model. Currently, there is no easy way to use Cloudflare images in WordPress, but we are working on a new paid plugin for Cloudflare Images for WordPress. Unfortunately, I do not have any timeline for it yet but it is something we are working on.

Moreover, if you are using Cloudflare Polish + Cloudflare Cache Reserve (Link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cache-reserve/) that reserve data will also get stored in Cloudflare Server.

Hello there guys,

@isaumya , I think the guys are mentioning the R2 feature where one can store media files, up to 10 GB per account, for free on cloudflare servers.

I too came here searching for a solution to offload a wordpress website’s media on the Cloudflare R2 so I can decrease the size of the wordpress installation.

I understand that there is an option to enable cache reserve, but I think it does not make use of the free features, but instead it is directly chargeable. Also, enabling that won’t offload media to cloudflare, they will exist in both hosting server and R2 (in R2 only for 30 days).

Please kindly correct me if I understood wrong and any of the above info is wrong.

And the question now is, if there are plans for you guys to implement the free R2 capabilities to this already amazing plugin!

Thank you in advance for your reply!

Best regards,

Victor

Please kindly correct me if I understood wrong and any of the above info is wrong.
And the question now is, if there are plans for you guys to implement the free R2 capabilities to this already amazing plugin!

– At this point, we don’t have any plan to add R2 for image storage feature.