Whitelist Admin-ajax.php in Cloudflare

This article covers how to whitelist the admin-ajax.php page for WordPress in Cloudflare.

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IMPORTANT: This guide requires you have Cloudflare enabled on your site.

Allowing Admin Ajax

1. Log in to your Cloudflare dashboard, and select your account and domain.
2. Click on Security > Security Rules.
   NOTE: If prompted, choose the new Cloudflare Dashboard.
3. Select +Create Rule > Custom Rules.
   
4. Fill out the "When incoming requests match" field with Name (Admin Ajax), Field (URI Path), Operator (contains), and the Value (wp-admin/admin-ajax.php).
    
   
5. Choose Action
   1.  Skip- This allows all requests for admin-ajax.php
6. Select all checkboxes under WAF components to skip
   
7. Click Deploy.