How to Enable Cloudflare Automatic Platform Optimization in WordPress Easily

Hi to all, in this article I am going to tell you all about how to enable cloudflare automatic platform optimization or APO easily in WordPress.

So, read the below provided steps carefully and completely to get clear understanding about enabling APO in WordPress easily without any error or issue.

Cloudflare is a content delivery platform launched a new feature called Automatic Platform Optimization in WordPress.

As you all know that the website speed is main important criteria in Search engine performance, so to help the website perform well in Google, For this cloudflare introduced a new feature called Automatic platform optimization or APO in WordPress.

It helps your website perform well in First Contentful Paint, speed index and other speed metrics. According to the cloudflare, it will help reduce the time to first byte by 72 percent and first contentful paint by 23 percent and it will help in fast index in the desktops.

Working of Automatic Platform Optimization 

Basically this is a new feature in Cloudflare, where it treats dynamic webpages as a static webpage and boosts the performance by utilizing it's workers to cache the dynamic content and enabling them to provide the entire WordPress websites from their edge network.

You can also use this service in any hosting providers but you will need to create a cloudflare account and the official Cloudflare plugins.

And first of all you need to remember that this is not a free service from Cloudflare. If you are using free plan then you have to pay 5 dollar per month and if you are using paid plan then it is free.

You can easily reach the speed boost provided by the cloudflare APO by using simple theme like kadence.

And if you are using page builders like Elementor or any other builder then you can use this service. As these page builders loads a lot of resources in the front end side, so this will help a lot in such condition.

Step by Step Process to Enable APO

Enable APO in Cloudflare Account

First of all you need to visit official website of cloudflare.

If you don't have any account in cloudflare then you need to create it.

And  login to your cloudflare dashboard by using your login credentials safely.

Now you need to go to speed section and then you need to click on optimization and you need to scroll down then you will find cloudflare Ap section as shown in below image.

Generate an API token for WordPress plugin

Now you need to click on overview tab and then you need to scroll down, you will find API section in the right side and here you need to click on "API Tokens".

And you need to create a token button using WordPress template as shown in above image, then you need to click on continue to summary button and create a token which you can use it in plugin.

Install and activate the plugin

Now you need to install the cloudlare plugin in WordPress and activate it. and then you need to enter cloudflare email and API key generated.

And after installing of the API key, you need to verify the status on the Cloudflare website and after the successful installation, the Installed WordPress plugins button will disappear.

Basically as a beginner whether you should use this APO services or not?

Mainly if you are beginners and you might get less traffic to your blogs then you don’t need to invest on it. instead of using this you can use other services provided by cloudflare as it will help to increase your website speed.

And if your posts are already ranking in the search result and getting high traffic and you are using shared hosting then you can go with this service to boost your website performance.

Conclusion

I hope that you all have understood about enabling cloudflare automatic platform optimization service in WordPress easily in just few minutes without any error or issue.