This covers the official Cloudflare WordPress plugin specifically, detected independently from Cloudflare the service sitting in front of an origin as a reverse proxy — a separate, already-handled concern (Static Shield's Admin Gateway already accounts for a trusted reverse proxy rewriting the visible client IP). The plugin's only real feature is an automatic cache-purge webhook that calls the Cloudflare API when content changes, plus a settings screen for security-level and page-rule toggles — neither affects what a visitor's request actually receives once a build is published.
Cloudflare's edge caching and this plugin's automatic purge operate independently of Static Shield's own static release — once Static Shield is serving static HTML from the origin, Cloudflare simply caches and distributes that same static output at the edge, layering CDN reach on top rather than conflicting with it.
No single mode applies — Cloudflare doesn't influence which serving mode a site should use; see the notes below for what it actually does.
Every page is served from the static release exactly as it would be without this plugin — the plugin has no effect on page output.
None — the plugin declares no public routes of its own; its cache-purge webhook is an admin-side action, not something a visitor's request goes through.
None needed — the Cloudflare plugin declares no public routes of its own.
No special setup — detected automatically once active.
Timing is worth understanding even though it isn't a correctness problem: if the plugin's purge fires on a raw post-save, before a Static Shield build for that same change has actually published, Cloudflare can briefly re-cache the pre-change static page at the edge until the next purge or its TTL expires. For tightest freshness, purge Cloudflare after a Static Shield build completes rather than immediately on save — Static Shield doesn't automate that ordering today. This profile is also about the WordPress plugin only, not about Cloudflare configured as a reverse proxy in front of the origin, which is a separate setup handled elsewhere.
Static Shield Lite is free to install and inspects your actual plugins, not just what's publicly visible.
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