CLOUDFLARE FOR WORDPRESS
Master Cloudflare for Faster, Safer WordPress Sites (in Prelaunch now)
The most complete Cloudflare course for WordPress professionals and agencies who want to maximize the entire layer between their visitors and WordPress.
Cloudflare can handle far more than DNS and a CDN, but only when you understand what it is doing, where it sits in your stack, and which responsibilities still belong to WordPress and your host.
This course takes you from domain setup through caching, performance, security, Rules, Access, AI crawler control, troubleshooting, and a complete production configuration you can reuse across WordPress sites.
Hi, I’m Remkus de Vries, a WordPress Performance Specialist, WP Consultant, and Educator for over 20 years. See what others have to say.
- Complete 13-module course with video lessons, supporting text, and searchable transcripts
- Follow one WordPress site from setup to a repeatable configuration, covering Cloudflare Free and Pro
- Domain registration, DNS, SSL, email authentication, and domain hardening
- Understand the caching stack and build safe Cache Rules for WordPress, WooCommerce, and dynamic sites
- Configure and evaluate APO, performance features, and image optimization
- Protect WordPress with WAF rules, rate limiting, bot controls, and Access
- Manage AI crawlers and explore Cloudflare’s WordPress-relevant AI features
- Practical Rules and simple Workers use cases
- Diagnose caching, SSL, plugin, hosting, and configuration problems
- Understand outages, privacy, GDPR, sovereignty, and Cloudflare dependency risks
- One year of course support
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Remkus has a deep and thorough understanding of everything WordPress – from the core to the most cutting-edge developments in the ecosystem.
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Remkus was thorough, detail-oriented, and results driven. I truly understood my next steps. Highly recommended!
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In this course, you will learn
Most Cloudflare tutorials jump straight to DNS records, Cache Rules, or a list of settings you should enable.
That makes it easy to configure Cloudflare without really understanding what it is doing to your WordPress site.
This course starts with the complete request journey, then builds from there. You’ll understand what happens at Cloudflare, what still happens at your origin, and how to make deliberate decisions about performance, caching, security, and everything in between.
This is a hands-on course: you’ll understand what you’re configuring and why, then put it into practice with clear walkthroughs, screencasts and related “snippets” you can copy and adapt to your own sites.
Understand exactly where Cloudflare fits
Follow every request from the browser through Cloudflare to your server, WordPress, and the database. You’ll understand which layer controls DNS, SSL, caching, performance, security, and application behavior, and where responsibilities overlap.
Configure Cloudflare for WordPress with confidence
Go beyond copied settings and generic recipes. You’ll learn how to configure DNS, SSL, Cache Rules, APO, security, Rules, Access, AI crawler controls, and more while keeping WordPress, WooCommerce, and dynamic functionality working correctly.
Build a Cloudflare setup you can repeat
Turn what you learn into practical Free and Pro baseline configurations you can use for your own sites and across client projects. You’ll also learn how to audit, troubleshoot, document, and maintain Cloudflare as part of a professional WordPress workflow.
→ Who Is This Course For?
For WordPress Professionals
Understand what Cloudflare is actually doing in front of WordPress, and confidently configure DNS, SSL, caching, performance, security, and more.
Stop relying on copied settings, and start making decisions based on how the entire stack works.
For All Kinds of WordPress Agencies
Create a repeatable Cloudflare setup you can deploy, audit, document, and maintain across client sites.
Learn how to handle account ownership, permissions, Free vs Pro decisions, configuration standards, troubleshooting, and ongoing management as part of your agency workflow.
For WooCommerce Builders
Use Cloudflare without breaking carts, checkout, customer accounts, sessions, AJAX, or other dynamic behavior.
Learn what can safely be cached, what must bypass the edge, and how to improve performance and security without interfering with the buying experience.
For Freelancers
Take control of the infrastructure layer that often sits between your work and the visitor.
Diagnose Cloudflare-related problems, improve existing configurations, and give clients better answers than “try purging the cache.”
For Performance & Security Specialists
Go deeper into Cache Rules, APO, WAF rules, bots, rate limiting, AI crawlers, Access, and edge configuration.
Understand where Cloudflare can solve a problem earlier in the request journey, and where WordPress or the hosting platform still needs to handle it.
For You
If you manage WordPress sites and Cloudflare is somewhere in the stack, this course will help you understand it properly.
You’ll know what to enable, what to avoid, how to troubleshoot it, and how to build a configuration you can trust.
Explore 13 Modules
Cloudflare can do a lot for WordPress, but knowing which settings exist is not the same as knowing how to use them properly.
This course takes you through the entire Cloudflare layer, from domains, DNS, and SSL to caching, performance, security, Rules, AI controls, Access, troubleshooting, and agency workflows.
Let’s look at the modules and see how one WordPress site progresses from a regular installation to a complete, production-ready Cloudflare configuration.
Module 1: Understand Cloudflare w/ Your WordPress Site
Outcome: You’ll start with a clear mental model of Cloudflare rather than treating it as a collection of unrelated settings. You’ll understand where it sits in the WordPress stack, what it controls, and what remains the responsibility of WordPress and your hosting provider.
Cloudflare beyond the CDN
Understanding the complete request journey
Navigating the Cloudflare dashboard
Cloudflare Free vs Pro
Module 2: Your Domain, DNS, SSL, Email, Done Correctly
Outcome: you’ll be able to take a domain from registration or migration through to a correctly configured and secured WordPress and email setup.
Starting with a domain
DNS , SSL and HTTPS inside of Cloudflare
Email authentication and hardening
Hardening the domain and avoiding common mistakes
Module 3: Understand the Complete Caching Stack
Outcome: You’ll understand the entire WordPress related caching stack, not just Cloudflare’s part of it, and know where each optimization should live.
The caching layers from browser to database
What Cloudflare caches by default
Understanding cache status and TTL
Deciding which layer should optimize what
Module 4: Cloudflare Caches with Cache Rules
Outcome: You’ll be able to deliberately decide what Cloudflare should cache instead of relying on defaults or copied rule recipes, while keeping dynamic WordPress functionality working correctly.
Lessons
How Cache Rules work
Every Cache Rule option explained
What WordPress must never cache
Caching WooCommerce and dynamic WordPress sites safely
Build a baseline WordPress caching configuration
Module 5: Faster WordPress with APO
Outcome: You’ll know when APO gives WordPress a genuine performance advantage, how to configure it correctly, and when its caching behavior creates more problems than benefits.
Lessons
What APO (Automatic Platform Optimization) actually does
Setting up APO correctly
Measuring whether APO actually helps
When APO causes problems
Module 6: The Right Cloudflare Performance Settings
Outcome: You’ll know which Cloudflare performance features deserve to be enabled, where they belong in the wider WordPress stack, and which ones add complexity without meaningful gains.
Lessons
Compression, protocols, and delivery
Origin and edge performance
Minification and frontend optimization
Image optimization with Cloudflare + R2
When Cloudflare Images makes sense
Module 7: Secure Your WordPress Site at the Edge
Outcome: You’ll be able to build a layered WordPress security strategy that stops unwanted traffic as early as possible without assuming Cloudflare replaces every other security layer.
Lessons
Understand Cloudflare’s security layers
Build practical WordPress security rules
Bots, crawlers, spam, and automated traffic
Build security without breaking legitimate traffic
Understand where Cloudflare security ends
Module 8: AI Crawlers and Cloudflare’s AI Features
Outcome: You’ll understand both sides of the Cloudflare and AI relationship: controlling how AI systems consume your WordPress content and understanding how Cloudflare can support AI functionality you intentionally add to a WordPress site.
Lessons
How AI services interact with your WordPress content
Manage AI crawlers with Cloudflare
Protect content from unwanted AI scraping
Decide what your AI crawler policy should actually be
Using Cloudflare’s AI platform with WordPress
Module 9: Control WordPress Behavior with Rules ++
Outcome: You’ll know how to move appropriate functionality away from WordPress and onto Cloudflare’s edge without unnecessarily turning your setup into a custom application.
Lessons
Beyond Cache Rules
Redirect, URL rewrites, response headers, and more
A practical introduction to Workers
Useful low-complexity Worker patterns
Module 10: Protect WordPress with Cloudflare Access
Outcome: You’ll be able to decide when Cloudflare Access materially strengthens a WordPress environment and implement it without confusing edge authentication with WordPress authorization.
Lessons
Understanding Cloudflare Access and Zero Trust
Protecting WordPress administration
Protecting staging, development, and private sites
When Access is and isn’t appropriate
Module 11: Diagnose and Fix Cloudflare Problems
Outcome: You’ll be able to identify which layer is actually responsible for a problem instead of purging every cache and hoping something changes.
Lessons
See what Cloudflare is actually doing
Read the request itself
Debug caching and rule problems
Debug WordPress-specific problems
The recurring Cloudflare stumbling blocks
Module 12: Understand the Risks
Outcome: You’ll understand not only what Cloudflare gives you, but also the operational, legal, privacy, and architectural responsibilities you accept by depending on it.
Lessons
Cloudflare as an infrastructure dependency
Planning for outages and failure
Privacy, GDPR, and data sovereignty
Vendor dependency and knowing when not to use Cloudflare
Module 13: The WordPress Cloudflare Playbook
Outcome: You’ll leave with a repeatable way to implement, audit, document, maintain, and manage Cloudflare for your own WordPress projects and, especially, across an agency portfolio.
Lessons
Build your baseline WordPress Cloudflare configuration
Onboard a new WordPress site from start to finish
Audit an existing Cloudflare-powered WordPress site
Make Cloudflare repeatable across client sites
Turn Cloudflare into an agency service
What This Course it Not
This is not a “copy these Cloudflare settings and call it done” course. It is for WordPress Agencies, builders and developers who want to understand what Cloudflare is doing, why a configuration works, and where it fits alongside WordPress, hosting, caching, security, DNS, and the rest of the stack.
You will not leave with someone else’s checklist. You will leave knowing how to make the right Cloudflare decisions for the site in front of you. You’ll leave with a repeatable way to implement, audit, document, maintain, and manage Cloudflare for your own WordPress projects and, especially, across an agency portfolio.
Cloudflare, in the Context of WordPress
- Follow one WordPress site from domain setup to production
- Understand every decision before you configure it
- Finish with Free and Pro setups you can reuse
What You Should Know First
Prerequisites
To get the most out of this course, you should:
Be comfortable with WordPress fundamentals: You should understand how themes, plugins, the WordPress admin, and a typical WordPress site fit together. Experience building or managing WordPress sites is expected.
Understand the basics of domains and hosting: You don’t need deep DNS knowledge, but you should understand that a domain points visitors toward infrastructure where your WordPress site lives.
Have basic technical proficiency: You don’t need to be a developer or systems engineer, but you should be comfortable working with hosting dashboards, WordPress settings, and technical configuration.
No previous Cloudflare experience is required: We start with where Cloudflare sits in the request journey and build from there, so you don’t need to know the dashboard, its terminology, or its features beforehand.
More control at the edge.
Better WordPress outcomes.
Whether you manage one WordPress site or an entire client portfolio, this course gives you the expertise to make Cloudflare a deliberate part of your stack instead of another layer you hope is configured correctly.
Build a Cloudflare configuration you can trust
Know what belongs at Cloudflare, what belongs at your host, and what WordPress should still handle. Build sensible Free and Pro configurations that improve performance and security without breaking dynamic functionality.
Diagnose and fix Cloudflare problems faster
Stop purging caches and changing settings until something works. Learn how to read cache statuses, headers, analytics, Rules, DNS, and SSL behavior so you can identify which layer is actually causing the problem.
Turn Cloudflare into an agency service
Standardize how you onboard, configure, audit, document, and maintain Cloudflare across client sites. Define what you manage, demonstrate its value, and turn that expertise into a repeatable part of your care plans or managed services.
By the end should be able to…
- Explain the complete request journey from browser to Cloudflare, WordPress, and the database
- Configure DNS, SSL, caching, performance, and security for real WordPress sites
- Decide what Cloudflare, your host, WordPress, plugins, and the browser should each handle
- Build reusable Free and Pro baseline configurations for new and existing sites
- Diagnose caching, Rules, WooCommerce, SSL, and other Cloudflare problems systematically
Master Cloudflare for WordPress now
The difference between average WordPress builds and exceptional ones starts here. Stop piecing together fixes from random tutorials. This course gives you the full system — every layer, every tool, every insight — so you can build faster WordPress sites with confidence and clarity.
Whether you’re solving tough client issues or building high-performance sites from scratch, this is the edge you’ve been missing.
Choose the license that fits your workflow — solo or team
Single License
$339 299
one time purchase, prelaunch discount
Perfect for freelancers, solo developers, site owners.
Get the complete Cloudflare for WordPress course and build a configuration you actually understand.
- Complete 13-module course
- Cloudflare Free and Pro covered side by side
- Follow one WordPress site from initial setup to a complete Cloudflare configuration
- Domain registration, DNS, SSL, email authentication, and domain hardening
- Understand the full caching stack from browser to WordPress and origin
- Build safe Cache Rules for WordPress, WooCommerce, and other dynamic sites
- Configure and evaluate APO, performance features, and image optimization
- Protect WordPress with WAF rules, rate limiting, bot controls, and Access
- Manage AI crawlers and understand Cloudflare’s WordPress-relevant AI features
- Practical Rules and low-complexity Workers use cases
- Diagnose caching, SSL, plugin, hosting, and Cloudflare configuration problems
- Understand outages, privacy, GDPR, sovereignty, and Cloudflare dependency risks
- Finish with a repeatable Free and Pro implementation approach
- Video lessons, supporting text, and searchable transcripts
- One year of course support
100% Course completeness guarantee
Agency License
Built for Agencies
$1629 1500
one time purchase, prelaunch discount
Built for teams solving client problems at scale.
Give your team a shared approach to configuring, auditing, troubleshooting, and maintaining Cloudflare for WordPress at scale.
- Everything included with the Single License
- Team access for up to 7 people
- One shared Cloudflare approach across developers, builders, support, and technical staff
- 1:1 agency onboarding session
- Priority course support for one year
- Guidance for turning the course configuration into your agency baseline
- Establish separate Free and Pro starting points for client sites
- Build a repeatable process for new-site Cloudflare onboarding
- Build a repeatable process for auditing inherited or existing Cloudflare setups
- Guidance on client vs agency account ownership, roles, permissions, and handover
- Standardize caching, performance, security, and troubleshooting decisions across client sites
- Apply the course’s risk, privacy, and outage considerations to client work
- Use the final Agency Cloudflare Playbook as the basis for an ongoing managed service
- Video lessons, supporting text, and searchable transcripts for the whole team
100% Course completeness guarantee
Frequently asked questions
Do you have any questions? Check the FAQs below — or reach out, and we’ll help you get the clarity you need.
Our most common FAQs
Do I need Cloudflare Pro to follow this course?
No. Cloudflare Free and Pro are covered throughout the course, and you’ll learn what is genuinely available on each plan, where Pro adds meaningful value, and when upgrading makes sense.
The final module includes baseline configurations for both Free and Pro, so you can build a solid setup regardless of which plan you use.
When will this course launch?
I’m planning to launch the course before the end of 2026. I’ll keep you updated on progress and share the confirmed launch date as we get closer.
What does “100% Course completeness guarantee” mean?
This guarantee means that every single thing, every single component, and every single layer that has an impact on the performance of your site will be covered in this course.
Do I need previous Cloudflare experience?
No. The course starts by explaining where Cloudflare sits between your visitors and WordPress, how the request journey works, and what Cloudflare actually controls.
You should already be comfortable managing WordPress sites, but you do not need to know Cloudflare’s dashboard, terminology, or features beforehand.
I’m afraid this might be too technical for me?
You do not need to be a developer, DevOps engineer, or network specialist.
We will cover technical concepts such as DNS, SSL, caching, HTTP headers, security rules, and request behavior, but always in the context of managing WordPress sites. The goal is to help you understand what is happening well enough to make good decisions, not turn you into an infrastructure engineer.
Is this mainly a Cloudflare performance course?
No. Performance is an important part of the course, but Cloudflare sits across much more of your WordPress stack.
We cover domains, DNS, SSL, email authentication, caching, APO, performance, security, bots, AI crawlers, Rules, Workers, Access, troubleshooting, infrastructure risk, and repeatable agency workflows.
Will this work with WooCommerce and other dynamic WordPress sites?
Yes. The course specifically covers the parts of WordPress that require more careful caching and security decisions, including WooCommerce carts, checkout, customer accounts, authenticated sessions, AJAX, memberships, LMS platforms, personalization, and other dynamic behavior.
You’ll learn what can safely be cached and, just as importantly, what should never be cached.
My hosting provider already uses Cloudflare. Is this course still relevant?
Yes, and this is an important part of the course.
Some WordPress hosts integrate Cloudflare into their own platform, which can make it unclear who controls caching, performance, security, DNS, or other parts of the request journey.
You’ll learn how to identify what your host controls, what you control directly in Cloudflare, and where overlapping functionality can create problems.
Does this course cover Cloudflare security as well?
Yes. You’ll learn how Cloudflare’s DDoS protection, WAF, Managed Rules, Security Rules, rate limiting, bot controls, and other security layers fit around WordPress.
We’ll also cover where Cloudflare security stops. Cloudflare does not replace WordPress security, hosting security, vulnerability management, or every other security layer.
Does the course cover AI crawlers and Cloudflare’s AI features?
Yes. There is an entire module dedicated to AI.
You’ll learn how to control AI crawlers, decide which crawlers you want to allow or block, use Cloudflare’s crawler controls and AI Labyrinth, and think through the tradeoffs between discoverability, citations, training, bandwidth, and content ownership.
We’ll also introduce AI Gateway and Workers AI in the context of WordPress, without turning the course into an AI application development course.
Will I learn Cloudflare Workers?
Yes, but this is not a JavaScript or Workers development course.
You’ll learn where Workers fit when Cloudflare Rules are no longer enough and explore useful, relatively low-complexity patterns such as redirects, 410 Gone responses, maintenance responses, header manipulation, geographic logic, and request filtering.
Will this help me troubleshoot existing Cloudflare setups?
Absolutely. Troubleshooting is a major part of the course.
You’ll learn how to inspect Cloudflare headers, cache statuses, analytics, Rules, DNS, SSL, and browser requests so you can determine which layer is actually responsible for a problem.
The goal is to move beyond “purge everything and see if that fixes it.”
Is this useful for agencies managing multiple client sites?
Very much so. The final part of the course is specifically about making Cloudflare repeatable across client projects.
You’ll learn how to approach account ownership, permissions, standardized configurations, onboarding, auditing, documentation, handover, ongoing maintenance, and deciding what Cloudflare management could look like as part of a care plan or managed service.
Support for one year, what does this mean?
When you buy Cloudflare for WordPress, you’ll always have access to the complete course plus one year of direct support from me.
That means you can revisit the material as you implement Cloudflare on real sites and reach out when you need clarification on the concepts, configurations, or decisions covered in the course.
Meet Remkus, the man behind the course
Hi, I’m Remkus de Vries, and I run Within WordPress.
I’m a seasoned WordPress veteran with more than 20 years of performance and security expertise, dedicated to building, refining, and sharing methods, best-practices, and tools that keep WordPress sites fast, secure, and reliable
Over the years, I’ve helped agencies, developers, and businesses untangle performance bottlenecks, scale high-traffic WordPress sites, and make infrastructure decisions that actually stick.
This course distills everything I’ve learned, the hard way and the smart way, into one clear, no-nonsense blueprint for making WordPress fast, reliably and repeatedly.
Remkus de Vries is a WordPress Performance Specialist, WordPress Consultant and Educator for almost 20 years.
Start mastering Cloudflare for WordPress today!
What are you waiting for?
If Cloudflare sits between your visitors and WordPress, you should know exactly what it is doing there.
Stop relying on copied configurations, scattered tutorials, and settings you enabled because somebody told you to. Learn how Cloudflare actually fits into the WordPress stack, and make deliberate decisions about DNS, caching, performance, security, and everything that happens at the edge.
By the end, you’ll have more than Cloudflare knowledge. You’ll have a repeatable way to configure, audit, troubleshoot, and manage it across real WordPress sites.
Let’s make Cloudflare work for WordPress. Properly.
- 13-module, complete Cloudflare for WordPress curriculum
- Cloudflare Free and Pro covered throughout
- One WordPress site followed from domain setup to production
- Caching, performance, security, Rules, Access, AI, and more
- Reusable Free and Pro baseline configurations
100% completeness guarantee
If you’ve made it this far enough to consider one of my courses, you probably already know my work. I don’t chase trends and I don’t create surface-level content. You’ve likely read my newsletter, watched my videos, or learned something from the way I approach performance, security, tooling, and the broader WordPress ecosystem.
For more than twenty years, I’ve built a reputation on showing WordPress Agencies, Builders and Developers how to work smarter, think deeper, and understand the platform beneath the plugins. Thousands of people have used my guidance to build faster, safer, more reliable sites. I’m proud of that track record, and I’m protective of the quality behind it.
These courses represent my highest level of work. They combine everything I’ve learned operating WordPress at scale with everything I wish someone had taught me earlier. They’re structured to take you from understanding concepts to actually applying them, without the fluff or shortcuts that usually lead to mediocre results. When you enroll, you’re getting the same principles and practices I use myself.
Because of that, these courses are built for people who are ready to commit. The material only delivers its full value when you genuinely engage with it. If you’ve followed my work for a while, you know what to expect: clarity, depth, practicality, and a strong bias toward long-term thinking. If that aligns with the way you build websites, you’ll get far more out of these courses than the price you pay.
This is also why I ask you to make an intentional decision before purchasing. If you’re uncertain about whether you have the time to work through the material, or if you’re unsure whether the course fits your level or goals, you’re always welcome to reach out and ask. I’d rather you choose with confidence than buy on impulse.
To maintain the integrity of these courses and continue investing in the quality and support behind them, all sales are final. I do not offer refunds. This allows me to dedicate my energy to the students who are committed to doing the work and getting the most from it.
Thank you for considering my courses thoughtfully and for being part of a community that values depth, mastery, and high standards.