Rating: 5 stars
One of the great things about using WordPress is the availability of plugins to handle a wide variety of jobs. The best ones–like this one–do that simply and effectively. Couldn’t be happier with the increased speed of loading cached pages. Highly recommended.
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Since I started using page cache I managed to get a higher rating on my loading page speed. Thanks guys. Keep up the good work.
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This was always a good plugin, until version 5. Now it’s broke, it mostly doesn’t even save the options. We also did tutorials on Youtube about this plugin, but now we are forced to tell our customers to use something else. It was good to control Cloudflare from WordPress, now it tries to force you into using the disk cache, injects ads and tries to upsell additional things.
On top of this, options are now extremely hidden, and the form doesn’t save the changes
“An invalid form control with name=’swcfpc_cf_fallback_cache_ttl’ is not focusable. ?”
Rating: 5 stars
The plugin completely broke wp-config.php after enabling cache, it might be working but I don’t recommend it
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Thank you for this wonderful plugin, it seems are working great. Content are always updated and site health just indicate all is fine. I need use an additional plugin for Object cache to pass the health of WordPress, maybe in the future you can integrate also that to make your cache plugin more complete and fully pass the site health. I love this cache plugin!
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Works great, loads pages faster.
I’ve been looking for this type of plugin for the longest time and finally found it.
Rating: 3 stars
Fast and works… but unfortunately, But the plugin author is inserting ads directly into the WordPress editor. I’ve confirmed this both visually in the editor and by inspecting the plugin’s code. It’s concerning as I don’t want my clients to encounter ads while working. This practice shouldn’t be permitted. Consequently, I’ll be uninstalling the plugin.
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I use only this provider, page and very satisfied with it.
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Works great with a Cloudflare free account!
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EXCELLENT PLUGIN. REALY WORKS
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Excellent plugin, works great!
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best solutions ever
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Best cache plugin out there, simple to use and powerful.
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Amazing plugin
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The technical means this plugin uses to get your site cached on CloudFlare is state of the art. Using service workers and then configuring CloudFlare to render from cache and only “fail open” to uncached content on cache miss, is very forward thinking. It may take a bit for someone less experienced with this to setup, but the performance gains with this approach are stellar. Using CloudFlare without this specific implementation approach still won’t be as fast. Be sure to take the time to set it up right, and do the actual service worker configuration and you’ll be amazed at how well this works, and all for no cost.
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We use the Super Page Cache for Cloudflare plugin on multiple WordPress sites, and it has truly transformed the performance of our sites. The setup is incredibly straightforward, and the seamless integration with Cloudflare makes it a must-have for anyone looking to optimize control over site speed. The advanced caching options allow for fine-tuning the cache behavior to meet my specific needs. Highly recommended.
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Once in a while I come across a plugin that blows my mind, and this is one of those.
It just works.
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Your website is as fast as your Cloudflare configuration. I discovered Super Page Cache through a friend and decided to give it a spin. The plugin has ton of settings and you might feel lost at first BUT what you actually need is to start from a simple configuration that makes Cloudflare work for your website. No Pro plan required, no Automatic WordPress Optimization (APO) license either. Make sure to fasten your seatbelt and turn that preloader on.
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Good work
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have tried a few plugins to connect to Cloudflare caching and this is the most advanced.
many more options with good explanations of what each of them do.
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… it’s tricky to set up!
You might have noticed that 80% of the reviews give 5 stars to this plugin. Aye, it well deserves them! And then there are a few who simply say “doesn’t work” or “does nothing” or “same error as reported 5 years ago” and just give one star. There is not much in-between! How come?
The explanation is easy.
WordPress users come in all forms and shapes, and that also means quite different levels of know-how. Many entry-level cache plugins are very easy to set up: install it, click a checkbox to “enable cache”, and in 90% of the cases, that’s all you need to do. Some give you a few options to further tweak your setup, but these are mostly optional and/or “advanced usage” for the very few that really need them.
This is the case of the free, built-in cache plugins already being offered by many hosting providers. They are installed automatically when WordPress is installed. They are also automatically configured. The end-user doesn’t need to do much, and, in many cases, they’re not even aware that a cache plugin is being used — everything works transparently and effortlessly.
Obviously, that level of simplicity comes with a catch: you can’t really optimise much in terms of caching. It’s a one-size-fits-all-but-probably-none situation. In many cases, turning off the hosting provider’s plugin and adding your own will give you the possibility of tweaking things further, beyond what an automatic configuration can do.
And then there is the other extreme of the spectrum: W3 Total Cache. The cache plugin that has everything and does everything. You can precisely configure the most minute details of your whole caching framework (because, well, it doesn’t limit itself to caching pages — it does pretty much everything). W3 Total Cache goes even further, actively looking for “improvement” tools that it can use and which might be running on your server — and allows you to activate them. Selectively. So you can use a Redis cache for some things (such as, say, object cache) but let the page cache stay on disk; or write some rules to get some elements automatically sent to a CDN, while keeping others local. It does support Cloudflare, too (as well as many, many other providers). In fact, it would be hard to think of anything that W3TC does not support or doesn’t allow to be configured.
So why isn’t everybody using it, if it’s that good?
Well, W3TC is impossibly hard to configure. Or, rather, you can do it, but it will be a nightmare to “get it right”. You might be “overtweaking” your configuration (it happened to me all the time!) and, as a consequence, W3TC would even slow down your system. You can miss a crucial parameter and throw your site offline in a second. And sure, you can make a copy of all the configuration settings that you have carefully preserved over the years, hoping to avoid all the trouble the next time you configure another WP installation. Well, good luck with that. It’s highly likely that a different WP site will, well, require different configurations. Some WP sites have zero JavaScript, but complex CSS; others have minimalistic CSS, but very clever JavaScript tricks, such as partially loading bits of content instead of a full page. Tweaking W3TC for each of those scenarios can be completely different and may require you to dump your “favourite” configuration and just start from scratch again. Oh, and that’s until your end-user decides to switch themes and/or add new plugins. Then you have to do everything from scratch — again.
Not everybody has that amount of free time, nor the enthusiasm and dedication required to keep W3TC operating smoothly. It’s simply too complex to configure and maintain. As a result, most sites using W3TC ae not as optimised as they could be.
Enter Super Page Cache for Cloudflare.
This plugin, in terms of complexity and the ability to fine-tune several performance parameters, is closer to W3TC and further away from the “generic” page cache plugin pre-installed by hosting providers. In other words: there is a lot to configure until you “get it right”. The “reasonable defaults” that it starts with are… well, reasonable, sure, in the sense that they will not blow up your website, but the performance enhancements will not be dramatic.
That’s as it should be, because the heavy-duty work is not being done by WordPress, nor even by Super Page Cache for Cloudflare; indeed, most is being done on Cloudflare’s side. And this is the right way to do it! Super Page Cache for Cloudflare essentially prepares WordPress to correctly interface with Cloudflare and leverages on what Cloudflare already provides (for free) in order to seriously accelerate your website.
In other words…
There is a limit to how much you can tweak your website locally. The “best of the best” caching plugin cannot magically wave some metrics away. If you’re hosting in the US, but your clients connect from Europe, there is no way to tweak and fine-tune your caching plugin so that European users get faster access to your website. There is a limit to how fast data can be transferred between the two sides of the Atlantic — ultimately, the speed of light. You cannot get faster than that! So, at best, you can hope for a local optimal configuration: giving users near to your data centre the best experience possible, and, well, there is not much more you can do beyond that, right? There is no way to go faster than the speed of light (not on this universe, anyway).
Well, the answer is that you can cheat.
And that’s what Cloudflare essentially does: it doesn’t merely “cache your content”. Rather, it does so by making copies of your website’s cache to their 250+ data centres across the world. This means that European visitors will not connect to your website in the US. They will just connect to Cloudflare’s nearest data centre in Europe, and retrieve the cached pages from there instead. Since Cloudflare operates in so many different cities, there is a huge percentage of the world’s Internet population that gets local speeds to retrieve your website — as opposed to have to wait for data to patiently cross the Atlantic (twice… once for the request, once for the reply).
It’s the equivalent of making copies of your website all over the world. But instead of paying hundreds of web hosting companies across the world to hold a local copy of your website — not to mention the management of this automatic replication every time a cache is flushed — you just use Cloudflare to do everything on your behalf. Automatically, in the background, effortlessly. And for free.
Super Page Cache for Cloudflare is just the key to unlock that potential.
Now, to be fair, when you sign up to Cloudflare, by default, it caches very little — some JavaScript, some CSS, and, with luck, a few static images. This is the “bare minimum”, or the least common denominator — it will certainly improve things a bit, but not that much. Cloudflare even has their own “official” WordPress plugin, which facilitates the two-way communication between WP and Cloudflare’s servers. Nevertheless, Cloudflare’s own plugin is not really fine-tuned to perfection. It also implements, by default, a “least common denominator” policy — and making sure that, when a WP author/editor publish an article and requires the cache to be cleared (“flushed”), this request is also forwarded to Cloudflare’s network. But “flushing caches” is just one of the hundreds of options given by WP caching plugins. Some plugins, such as W3TC or the WP Fastest Cache plugin, are already “Cloudflare-aware” and can effectively communicate with Cloudflare’s API. Most, however, cannot be bothered to be properly configured: they work, sure, but always using the “bare minimum” performance boost you get from a generic default configuration.
As such, considering that there are way too many possible ways to configure WordPress itself — not to mention Cloudflare! — it’s rather obvious that none of that leads to a simple way to pre-generate a “one-size-fits-all” cache configuration.
That said, Super Page Cache for Cloudflare is not one of those “one-size-fits-all” solutions, but a plugin with a very reasonable amount of case-by-case configuration, even for the most basic of scenarios. And that is, unfortunately, the reason why so many reviews say “nothing works” or “impossible to configure”. You need to be patient. This is not an entry-level plugin at all: it is a rather sophisticated way of tapping into Cloudflare’s caching potential.
But configuring Super Page Cache for Cloudflare is just half the story. You need to configure Cloudflare as well. One doesn’t work without the other. And I have to say that learning to configure Cloudflare’s rule engine so that it works correctly for Super Page Cache for Cloudflare was truly an education: I didn’t realise how little I was actually using from Cloudflare’s free account.
It’s not obvious, but once you register with Cloudflare for a free account (or a paid one!), by default, it does not cache most things. You get just CSS and JS caching by default — good if you have insanely huge CSS/JS files — but that’s pretty much it.
Why? Well, Cloudflare originally would cache most things — including all static HTML retrieved from one’s own webserver, images and other media, and so forth. Unfortunately, this only worked so long as, on the Web server side, everything is properly prepared for Cloudflare to work well. What happened was that the vast majority of Cloudflare users (again, especially the free ones!) have no clue about how Cloudflare is configured, or why, or what it does. They have only heard that Cloudflare is great for protecting one’s site from remote attacks (true) and that it does some caching (also true). They assume (incorrectly) that there is nothing they need to change on their side. And that inevitably leads to problems — such as dynamic content, generated taking cookies into account, or assuming that certain headers were present, not displaying correctly. A common issue I had with a really basic WP cache plugin was that Cloudflare would sometimes show the mobile page for a desktop user and vice-versa — even though on the WordPress side of things these two cases ought to be handled separately. They were, but… they weren’t always detected based on their headers only. And sometimes Cloudflare would just blindingly serve the last version of the page they had cached, no matter who it was for (it was even possible to “leak” in this way pages requiring authentication…).
Over the years, therefore, Cloudflare learned their lesson: stop assuming that people have flawlessly configured servers on their side. Instead, go for the bare minimum that will work even with the worst possible configuration, but which, at least, won’t “break things”. And let so-called “advanced power users” to tweak both configurations (on their local web server and on Cloudflare) to cache whatever can be cached — but with a knowledgeable human being making rational decisions and tinkering with the configuration, not with an “automated” procedure.
Super Page Cache for Cloudflare does a neat job on the Web server’s side of things. It can be configured to prepare a ready-to-be-served page cache on disk which will be nicely used by Cloudflare, exactly in the way Cloudflare prefers such content to be received. Super Page Cache for Cloudflare, therefore, is all you need to properly “prepare” everything to be served by Cloudflare — but it means that each site will require its own distinct configuration. There will be common things, of course, but they will not be exactly the same under all circumstances. In my experience, there are certain plugin + theme configurations that will not work with Cloudflare (so all you can do is to water your plants while waiting for something to happen). Most will, but they will also need some human help to properly configure Cloudflare’s page rules.
And ultimately there’s where the magic happens. By enabling the Cloudflare rule engine, and making sure that it understands the format that Super Page Cache for Cloudflare uses to write things to disk — and serves them from disk —?you can virtually put your whole website on Cloudflare’s cache and serve it from there. With a bit of tinkering, you can do it. But, again, it’s not easy to do so, no matter how “automated” your system is, even though Super Page Cache for Cloudflare includes some of the more obvious configurations that you need to deploy.
And woe to any major upgrade, which might just scratch your existing configuration — and you have to start over again!
Rating: 5 stars
my blog daltxrealestate.com went from a 1.2-second load time to just 250 milliseconds! That’s incredible!
I want to say a huge THANK YOU, ALEX!
I was using WP-ROCKET’s paid plan, which crashed my website. Then, Litespeed Cache slowed my TTFB to 2 seconds. WP Fastest Cache didn’t improve my speed at all.
But when I tried Super Page Cache for Cloudflare, I jumped out of my chair! GTmetrix showed an A rating andTTFB just 200 milliseconds!
Man, your plugin is like a PREMIUM SUPER CLASSY DIAMOND PLAN.
Hope you have a fantastic day, Alex!
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I followed the instructions carefully and it works perfectly. I want to say thank you to the author for sharing your knowledge. I use this plugin in conjunction with litespeed cache and I am well impressed with the results.
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This plugin supposedly works out of the box.
Well, it doesn’t.
The developer’s support is terrible. The same problem I encountered, I found threads 5 years ago..
Did everything by the book, but cache was not working..
Disabled everything the developer said on Litespeed cache, my hosting didn’t have any page rules setup either..
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using for my Clients..mex92.com and working very fine
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We tried every cdn for our site and we use cf because of this plugin.
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It used to work well, but now without cloudflare it’s dead, it’s no longer useful, there’s just a button you click and nothing happens
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Great plugin that provides both fantastic out-of-the-box functionality for casual users and highly detailed and customizable settings for power users.
Fills an essential role in the community for WP + CloudFlare users.
Incredible fast and high quality support directly from the developer.
Highly recommended over the official CloudFlare plugin, which forces users to adopt their “APO” system, lacks detailed settings and just generals falls short of what it should do.
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Quite easy to setup and no issue so far. Works along with Wp Rocket and Litespeed plugin (with cache disabled on these ones).
Clear Cloudflare cache directly from WP dashboard. Perfect!
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