Every day, website visitors spend far too much time waiting for websites to load in their browsers. This waiting is partially due to browsers not knowing which resources are critically important so they can prioritize them ahead of less-critical resources. Continue reading Speeding up your (WordPress) website is a few clicks away
Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better Internet. We’ve been at it since 2009 and we’re making progress — with approximately 25 million Internet properties being secured and accelerated by our platform. When we look at other companies that Continue reading Cloudflare and WordPress.com partner to Help Build a Better Internet
Last year during Birthday Week, we announced Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress (APO): smart HTML caching for WordPress sites using Cloudflare. Initial testing across various WordPress sites demonstrated significant improvements in performance metrics like Time to First Byte (TTFB), First Continue reading Automatic Platform Optimization post-launch report
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% Continue reading Introducing Automatic Platform Optimization, starting with WordPress
This post explains how we implemented the Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress. In doing so, we have defined a new place to run WordPress plugins, at the edge written with Cloudflare Workers. We provide the feature as a Cloudflare service Continue reading Building Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress using 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. WordPress is an open source software project that many website service providers host for end Continue reading Fast WordPress Sites with Bluehost & Cloudflare Workers
The Time to First Byte (TTFB) of a site is the time from when the user starts navigating until the HTML for the page they requested starts to arrive. A slow TTFB has been the bane of my existence for Continue reading Improving HTML Time to First Byte
Die Time to First Byte (TTFB) einer Website ist die Zeit von dem Zeitpunkt, an dem der Benutzer mit der Navigation beginnt, bis der erste HTML-Code für die von ihm angeforderte Seite ankommt. Langsame TTFBs sind der Fluch, der über Continue reading Time to First Byte für HTML verbessern
We’ve had the tremendous pleasure of working with WP Engine for nearly 5 years, starting when both companies employed fewer than 100 people in total. From the beginning, we noticed striking similarities between our two companies—both were founded in 2010, Continue reading Welcome, WP Engine!
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. CC BY-SA 2.0 image by Nicola Sap De Mitri The problem was found Continue reading Protecting everyone from WordPress Content Injection
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 Continue reading CloudFlare’s new WordPress plugin
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. The vulnerability can easily Continue reading A Look at the New WordPress Brute Force Amplification Attack
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. Aside from the many and varied denial of service (DDoS) attacks that break against Continue reading Of Phishing Attacks and WordPress 0days
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 Continue reading Flexible SSL & WordPress: Fixing “Mixed Content” Errors
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 Continue reading Automatic protection for common web platforms
As we’ve said before, lots of our users run WordPress on their websites and its popularity makes it a big target. So when a new vulnerability is discovered, acting quickly is prudent. Jetpack is an extremely popular plugin to provide Continue reading Jetpack for WordPress: automatic protection
At CloudFlare a lot of our customers use WordPress, that's why we have our own plugin, we hang out at WordCamp and we wrote a WordPress specific ruleset for our Web Application Firewall. WordPress' ubiquity on the web can make Continue reading WordPress Pingback Attacks and our WAF
The team at the research firm Sucuri announced a serious vulnerability to W3TC and WP Super Cache this afternoon. (Update: it appears the vulnerability was first reported on WordPress.org about a month ago.) The vulnerability allows remote PHP code to Continue reading W3TC and WP Super Cache Vulnerability Discovered, We’ve Automatically Patched
There is currently a significant attack being launched at a large number of WordPress blogs across the Internet. The attacker is brute force attacking the WordPress administrative portals, using the username “admin” and trying thousands of passwords. It appears a Continue reading Patching the Internet in Realtime: Fixing the Current WordPress Brute Force Attack
Last night I gave a short presentation about how to use CloudFlare with WordPress sites to about 60 people attending the WordPress London Meetup. CloudFlare was happy to be sponsor of the event providing drinks, beers and lots and lots Continue reading WordPress London Meetup January 2013