HTTPS and WWW with Cloudflare?

“Cloudflare only works on websites that have www in the URL?)”

This is not true & only applies to hosting partner signups (activating through their panel). Customers that don’t have/don’t want www can simply signup for CloudFlare directly.

“Hi, I have a WordPress website equipped with SSL. Using a bit of code that I added to my .htaccess file, my website redirects visitors to https on all my web pages”
If you are trying to activate the free SSL option, I do need to advise that this is only possible when you signup for CloudFlare directly (not available through a hosting partner signup).

Some tips that might help configuring Flexible SSL with WordPress, if that’s what you’re trying to activate through CloudFlare.

Thanks for the helpful clarification. One quick follow-up question: my webhosting company Hostgator has already installed SSL on my website. If I want to sign up for Cloudflare directly rather than sign up for Cloudflare through my webhosting company Hostgator, can I still use Cloudflare in conjunction with the SSL provided by Hostgator? Or in order to use Cloudflare directly, do I need to jettison my current SSL and get SSL through Cloudflare?

Also, I have Wordfence Security installed on my website. Do you know if Cloudflare and Wordfence are compatible with each other?

Thanks!

“If I want to sign up for Cloudflare directly rather than sign up for Cloudflare through my webhosting company Hostgator, can I still use Cloudflare in conjunction with the SSL provided by Hostgator?”

Yes. You would want to make sure you’re choosing the FULL SSL option with SSL directly on your server.

“Or in order to use Cloudflare directly, do I need to jettison my current SSL and get SSL through Cloudflare?”
No, you would still want to keep the SSL on your server for the best security.

“Also, I have Wordfence Security installed on my website. Do you know if Cloudflare and Wordfence are compatible with each other? “
Should be ok as long as two things are set:

1. Make sure CloudFlare’s IPs aren’t blocked/limited in WordFence or on your server.

2. I would strongly recommend installing the CloudFlare WordPress plugin or mod_cloudflare to make sure the original visitor IPs are showing. Since we act as a reverse proxy for websites, our IPs will show unless something is installed to restore visitor IP.