Description
Activate WEDOS Global protection — WAF, DDoS protection and CDN for your WordPress website.
WEDOS Global (CDN Cache & Security)
WEDOS Global Protection plugin helps site administrators activate WEDOS.protection from inside WordPress. The plugin provides a simple landing page for non-technical users, guided website and DNS setup, a dashboard with protection status, and a consent step before any external service activation request is sent.
Cloud WAF & DDoS Protection
By filtering traffic and blocking harmful cyberattacks on cloud servers, our WAF provides protection for your WordPress websites without putting any extra load on your local resources.
Global CDN Cache
The WEDOS Global CDN will ensure a significant increase of your WordPress loading speed, and better overall server response all around the world.
Links to Documentation and Other Sources
External Services
This plugin connects to the WEDOS Global Protection service (plugin.wedos.global) to:
- Verify domain ownership via a local verification file
- Register and activate the domain protection service
- Check the protection and DNS status
Data sent to the service includes: domain name, server IP address, email address (entered by the admin), and a unique request ID. No personal visitor data is ever transmitted.
The service is provided by WEDOS Group SA, 7 Rue Robert Stumper, L-2557 Luxembourg, EU.
By activating the plugin and clicking «Create request», you explicitly consent to your domain data being sent to the WEDOS Global Protection service.
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Installation
- Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/wgpwpp directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
- Let the plugin guide you through the service setup process
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Contributors & Developers
“WEDOS Global (CDN Cache & Security)” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“WEDOS Global (CDN Cache & Security)” has been translated into 4 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
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Changelog
v2.0.16
- Smarter page cache: per-page caching, deduplication, automatic maintenance and admin bar flush buttons
v2.0.15
- Verification file: auto-fix permissions on .well-known/ and wedos-verify.txt before write attempt
v2.0.14
- Compliance: reduced tags to 5 per WordPress.org guidelines
- Compliance: added External Services section to README documenting data sent to plugin.wedos.global
- Compliance: WordPress core update notices are no longer suppressed on plugin page
v2.0.13
- Dashboard now shows ‘Active — FREE Plugin’ or ‘Active — WEDOS’ badge based on activation source
v2.0.12
- Extended suppression of third-party notices — covers all admin_notices variants, core update nags and footer overlays
v2.0.11
- Suppress third-party admin notices on the plugin dashboard page
v2.0.10
- Fixed fatal error on activation when OPcache serves stale Settings.php from older version
v2.0.9
- Renamed mu-plugin file to wgpwpp-cache.php (wp-content/mu-plugins/wgpwpp-cache.php)
v2.0.8
- Page cache now uses mu-plugin as primary strategy — works independently of other caching plugins
- Falls back to advanced-cache.php drop-in if mu-plugins/ is not writable
- Dashboard shows which strategy is active (mu-plugin or advanced-cache.php)
v2.0.7
- Fixed: www. prefix is now stripped from domain before API calls (API does not accept explicit www.)
- DNS records are still generated for the original host including www.
v2.0.6
- Page cache now checks and attempts to auto-fix file permissions before enabling
- Permission issues shown with confirmation dialog and detailed error info
v2.0.5
- Removed wgp-domain-create-retry flow — domain activation is now handled in a single step
v2.0.4
- Improved domain activation detection for code 2278 — checks A records against known WGP IPs (185.8.237.5, 185.8.237.6), ANAME and www. variant
- CDN Cache purge button disabled until release (01.05.2026)
v2.0.3
- Fixed plugin reset — now fully cleans up all options, cache files, advanced-cache.php and .well-known/ verification files
v2.0.2
- Added WEDOS CDN Cache card in dashboard with Purge CDN Cache button
v2.0.1
- Fixed verification file not being created before ingest call (verify_file_missing)
- Fixed verification file not served correctly behind WordPress rewrite rules
- Fixed unnecessary retry being triggered for all domains (not only disabled)
- Fixed error code 1001 (request pending) incorrectly treated as fatal error
- Added file permission diagnostics when verification file write fails
- Added clear error message in UI when verification file cannot be created
- Added .htaccess and do_parse_request hook to ensure /.well-known/ is served directly
v2.0.0
- Redesigned onboarding and dashboard UI
- Simplified DNS setup flow
- Improved protection status detection
- Performance improvements
v1.2.2
- Buttons for deletion of file cache and CDN cache
- Dashboard improvements
- Service activation improvements
v1.2.1
- Updated FAQ
- Updated plugin description and assets
v1.2.0
- Dashboard page added
- UX optimization
v1.1.6
- UX optimization
v1.1.5
- Expansion of supported translations (SK, HU)
v1.1.4
- WP 6.5 compatibility
- Language texts corrections
v1.1.3
- Page caching improvements
- REST API improvements
v1.1.2
- Page caching improvements
- Security reports improvements
v1.1.1
- bugfix: missing icons
v1.1.0
- Security reports
- Page caching
- CDN Cache
v1.0.0
- Initial release