WP Super Cache and Cloudflare Super Cache

Generally most caching plugin cache the HTML pages on the server level and using using cloudflare, only the static files gets served via the CF CDN, while the HTML pages are still served from the origin server, making the TTFB higher and slower page.

This plugin will not only cache the static files in CF CDN but also the HTML pages. So, when using this plugin if your have a normal site where users generally don’t have to login to interact with the site – in that case for the general user almost the whole site will be served via Cloudflare CDN (both the HTML Pages and the static files).

This makes the page load super fast compared to origin server level page cahcing solution. This plugin also have a fallback cache system – if you enable that it will also create a server level cache of the page for the occasions when the cache has been expired from the CF CDN and CF needs to contact the server to get the page content.

After the page gets cached in CF CDN all the requests will be handled by Cloudflare instead of sending the request to your origin server.

For more you can also watch this YouTube video which has shown how the plugin works in real life:

Hope this helps.

Thank you!

Is there any use of having both WP Super Cache and Super Page Cache for Cloudflare simultaneously installed?

Hi @mrsnarfwiz,
you cannot use both plugins simultaneously. If you wish to use this plugin then you need to ensure that you have deleted the official Cloudflare plugin from your website + APO is disabled in your Cloudflare dashboard.

There is a literally Third party tab when you can set other plugin cache so I’m confused. We can’t install different plugin for HTML cache? Supercache for cloudflare is great but for HTML cache for some reason I had better results with W3 total cache. Not sure why.

Ok it was about Supercache specificly. Sorry my fault :D.

We can’t install different plugin for HTML cache?

– yes that’s correct. When using this plugin then you need to make sure there is no other page caching solution present in your website and this is the only system that is taking care of page caching.

Supercache for cloudflare is great but for HTML cache for some reason I had better results with W3 total cache. Not sure why.

– When using this plugin in most cases the disk level HTML cache is not used most of the times. Only when the page is not yet cached at CF CDN level only them the request comes to the origin server and if you have fallback cache enabled then the page HTML is served from the disk.

After that when CF cache the page at it’s CDN from that point of time the request is totally handled by Cloudflare CDN. So for normal non loggedin user the website becomes origin less as all the requests are served from Cloudflare CDN.