Title: Cloudflare Proxy Mandatory
Last modified: May 15, 2025

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# Cloudflare Proxy Mandatory

 *  Resolved [Francis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/francissamo/)
 * (@francissamo)
 * [1 year ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloudflare-proxy-mandatory/)
 * Hi
 * I assume Cloudflare Proxy is mandatory, but maybe you can get it also to work
   using the API. 🤷‍♂️
 * Using “App for Cloudflare®”, does the website get cached with Cloudflare when
   it’s not proxied through Cloudflare?
 * ![](https://cdn-std.droplr.net/files/acc_765263/W53yhu)

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 *  Plugin Author [digitalpoint](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitalpoint/)
 * (@digitalpoint)
 * [1 year ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloudflare-proxy-mandatory/#post-18468370)
 * Most Cloudflare functions do need the traffic to be proxied (if they never see
   the traffic, Cloudflare cant do backend magic like serve from its edge cache).
 * Some services (like storing WordPress Media in R2), technically doesn’t require
   traffic to be proxied. But guest page caching does require proxing traffic since
   it needs to see the requests in real-time to do it.

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