Temporarily Disable Cloudflare
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If we want to temporarily disable all Cloudflare features without having to disable it through the DNS settings, we can use its Development Mode feature. This is useful, for example, when we are working on the site and want to see changes immediately.
Development Mode will turn off Cloudflare, and the domain will function as if Cloudflare did not exist for 3 hours. After 3 hours, the service will be reactivated and everything will return to normal.
Enable Development Mode from Cloudflare
From our Cloudflare account at https://dash.cloudflare.com, we select our domain, and on the "Overview" tab, we will find the "Development Mode" button on the right:
From the WordPress plugin
If we already have the Cloudflare plugin configured in our WordPress, either the official plugin or this excellent free alternative, we can enable Development Mode from WordPress.
If we configure LiteSpeed Cache to work with Cloudflare, we can enable Development mode from the CDN tab:
