Title: Nivoli Edge
Author: calimonk
Published: <strong>03.09.2026</strong>
Last modified: 07.09.2026

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# Nivoli Edge

 Від автора [calimonk](https://profiles.wordpress.org/calimonk/)

[Завантажити](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/nivoli-edge.1.64.0.zip)

 * [Деталі](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/nivoli-edge/#description)
 * [Відгуки](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/nivoli-edge/#reviews)
 *  [Встановлення](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/nivoli-edge/#installation)
 * [Розробка](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/nivoli-edge/#developers)

 [Підтримка](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/nivoli-edge/)

## Опис

Nivoli Edge is a security layer that lives one step above WordPress. Attacks, floods,
scanners and code changes are refused at Cloudflare’s edge before a request reaches
PHP, and the settings that refuse them live there too, behind an email confirmation,
so a hacked WordPress cannot switch them off or install anything. The same edge 
serves whole HTML pages and right-sized images from the node nearest each visitor,
and every number shows up inside WP admin.

**Free and managed, in one sentence:** the plugin is free and GPL and everything
that runs on your own server works without an account; the shields, the locks, the
edge cache and the numbers need the managed edge, from 15 euro a month with a 14-
day trial.

#### The Edge Security layer

Wordfence and Sucuri run inside the site they protect. This runs one layer up, at
the edge, and the site cannot reach it.

**Ten shields, refused before PHP.** Your server never boots PHP to turn a request
away.

 * Login flood limit (10 attempts per 10 minutes per address)
 * Comment flood limit (5 posts per 5 minutes per address)
 * Search flood limit (30 searches per 5 minutes per address)
 * XML-RPC block (a cached 410)
 * Login country lock (wp-login answers only the countries you list)
 * wp-admin IP lock (your own addresses, with a self-lockout guard and an email 
   rescue)
 * AI-crawler block (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot and friends; search engines never 
   affected)
 * Stray-PHP lock (every .php request except the real WordPress entry points gets
   a 404)
 * WordPress surface lock (the REST users list, ?author=N, readme.html, license.
   txt, the installer, debug.log)
 * Security-headers pack (HSTS, nosniff, frame and referrer policies; your own values
   win)

Eight of them come with every managed plan; the AI-crawler block and the wp-admin
IP lock from the Growth plan up. The stray-PHP and surface locks have a monitor 
mode that lists what blocking would have stopped before it blocks anything.

**Three locks, nothing inside the site can turn off.** A takeover of your WordPress
admin owns every plugin’s settings page. Ours refuses to act on WordPress’s say-
so.

 * Change lock: any change that weakens protection waits for a click on a link mailed
   to the license holder; the link applies exactly that change, once.
 * Install lock: plugin and theme installs, uploads, updates, deletes and the file
   editors are refused site-wide until a 15-minute window is opened the same way.
   Automatic updates and WP-CLI run on the server and are never affected.
 * Origin lock: the edge stamps a per-site secret on every request it forwards and
   the plugin refuses code changes that arrive without it, so knowing the server’s
   address is no longer a way around the locks. A self-test reports whether the 
   server enforces it.

**Evidence: who did what, from where.**

 * Refused installs named by plugin, and every refused attempt in your inbox as 
   it happens.
 * A lock activity log with time and address for every unlock request, clicked link,
   confirmation and lock change.
 * An attack-surface strip per fortnight, a monthly report by email, and for agencies
   a posture matrix across every site.

Underneath all of it, Cloudflare’s managed WAF rulesets, including the WordPress
rule set, run in front of every managed site.

#### Pages served from the edge

Full-page HTML caching with surgical purge: only the pages featuring a changed post
refresh, never the whole cache.

 * Surrogate-Key / Cache-Tag headers on every cacheable page; purges go to Nivoli,
   Fastly, Cloudflare Enterprise or your own webhook.
 * Logged-in visitors, carts and checkout always bypass.
 * Stylesheets, scripts and fonts from the edge too, on versioned addresses, so 
   no browser or CDN node holds a stale file after a purge.
 * Origin shield: if your server goes down, the edge keeps serving the last good
   copy of every cached page for up to 7 days and emails you when it engages and
   when the origin recovers.

#### Images served from the edge

URLs rewrite through Cloudflare Image Resizing into right-sized WebP/AVIF variants
on the fly. No uploads, no duplicate copies, no migration, no theme changes.

 * Per-size presets, one-click Size mapping from your theme’s registered sizes, 
   a catch-all for everything else.
 * Broken, heavy and fake images found from real traffic, with where each is used
   and one-click fixes; heavy originals shrink through Tinify.

#### The numbers, inside WP admin

 * What the edge answered and what it refused, by window, with the most-requested
   and most-missed URLs.
 * Dead URLs on a Live 404s page with one-click redirect or block; a Search Console
   404 export imported, matched to your own pages and turned into redirect and block
   rules family by family; All rules: one ordered list of every edge rule with per-
   rule counts and reordering.
 * Audience without a tracking script: humans versus bots, countries, referrers,
   devices, served-from-cache speed.
 * Static assets: edge hit rate per file type and which files still travel on plain
   addresses.
 * A monthly report by email, white-label copies for clients on Business and up.

#### Free versus managed

Free, on your own infrastructure, no account: image URL rewriting through your own
Cloudflare zone (native WP filters, srcset, Gutenberg, WooCommerce, the_content 
and full-page scan), image rules and size mapping, page-cache tag headers with surgical
purge to Fastly, Cloudflare Enterprise or your webhook, prewarm on save, coverage
audit with a weekly regression email, fake-image detection and repair, purge-failure
alerts, a weekly header self-test, a printable client report, the debug overlay,
and WP-CLI.

Managed, with a Nivoli API key: everything in The Edge Security layer above, the
managed page cache and image CDN (no Cloudflare account, plan or DNS work), origin
shield, URL rules and the 404 inbox, per-path cache duration, the query-param manager,
cache protection, dynamic-content safety for WooCommerce, edge insights and the 
monthly report, custom image hostname and watermarking, and for agencies a fleet
console with one key across sites.

#### Requirements

 * **Free:** a Cloudflare zone with **Image Resizing** enabled for the image half(
   Pro+ plan or per-1000 pricing); a tag-aware edge (Fastly / CF Enterprise / your
   webhook) for the page-cache half. If Image Resizing isn’t enabled the rewritten
   URLs 404; the Tools tab has a one-click probe to verify.
 * **Managed:** none of the above; the managed edge provides both. Just an API key
   from your Nivoli account.

### External services

The free tier’s core image rewriting sends **no data to any external service**; 
it only rewrites `<img>` URLs in your site’s HTML so browsers fetch through your
own Cloudflare zone. Beyond that, the plugin contacts external services only for
the specific, opt-in features listed below.

**Nivoli managed edge** (api at html-caching-admin.nivoli.workers.dev, dashboard
at console.nivoli.com): used **only if you enter an API key**. On activation and
on a daily background re-check it sends your API key, this site’s URL, the plugin
version, and the list of broken-image file paths you have marked handled (so the
monthly report can exclude them; these are addresses the CDN already sees in its
own traffic) to validate the key and provision your managed CDN/page-cache tenant;
it then reads back the aggregate usage statistics shown on the dashboard. If you
configure monthly reports or alerts, the recipient email address and optional report
branding (a name and logo URL) are stored with your account. No visitor data is 
ever sent. Terms: https://nivoli.com/terms · Privacy: https://nivoli.com/privacy

**Cloudflare** (api.cloudflare.com): used **only if you configure the Cloudflare
Enterprise page-cache backend** with your own API token, to dispatch tag-based cache
purges when your content changes. Terms: https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ · Privacy:
https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

**Fastly** (api.fastly.com): used **only if you configure the Fastly page-cache 
backend** with your own API token, to dispatch surrogate-key purges on content change.
Terms: https://www.fastly.com/terms/ · Privacy: https://www.fastly.com/privacy/

**TinyPNG / Tinify** (api.tinify.com): used **only if you add your own Tinify API
key and click “Shrink original”** on an image, to compress that source file. Only
the image you choose is sent. Terms & Privacy: https://tinify.com/terms

## Скріншоти

[⌊Dashboard: what the edge did for you in the last 30 days. Delivered, Protected
and your plan at work, with 30-day trends.⌉⌊Dashboard: what the edge did for you
in the last 30 days. Delivered, Protected and your plan at work, with 30-day trends
.⌉[

Dashboard: what the edge did for you in the last 30 days. Delivered, Protected and
your plan at work, with 30-day trends.

[⌊Edge shields: the attack surface strip (XML-RPC, logins, AI crawlers, comment 
and search floods) and every shield with its switch, enforced before your server.⌉⌊
Edge shields: the attack surface strip (XML-RPC, logins, AI crawlers, comment and
search floods) and every shield with its switch, enforced before your server.⌉[

Edge shields: the attack surface strip (XML-RPC, logins, AI crawlers, comment and
search floods) and every shield with its switch, enforced before your server.

[⌊Locks: change lock and install lock, what they refused (by plugin), the wp-admin
IP lock and login country lock, and the lock activity log with time and address.⌉⌊
Locks: change lock and install lock, what they refused (by plugin), the wp-admin
IP lock and login country lock, and the lock activity log with time and address.⌉[

Locks: change lock and install lock, what they refused (by plugin), the wp-admin
IP lock and login country lock, and the lock activity log with time and address.

[⌊Lock activity: what the locks refused in the last 14 days, the exact plugin someone
tried to install or update, and the log of who unlocked what, when, from which address.⌉⌊
Lock activity: what the locks refused in the last 14 days, the exact plugin someone
tried to install or update, and the log of who unlocked what, when, from which address
.⌉[

Lock activity: what the locks refused in the last 14 days, the exact plugin someone
tried to install or update, and the log of who unlocked what, when, from which address.

[⌊PHP & surface shields: stray PHP and enumeration or leftover requests refused,
with off, monitor and block for each.⌉⌊PHP & surface shields: stray PHP and enumeration
or leftover requests refused, with off, monitor and block for each.⌉[

PHP & surface shields: stray PHP and enumeration or leftover requests refused, with
off, monitor and block for each.

[⌊Stats and overview: hour-by-hour traffic, origin offload, hit rates by window,
surgical purges.⌉⌊Stats and overview: hour-by-hour traffic, origin offload, hit 
rates by window, surgical purges.⌉[

Stats and overview: hour-by-hour traffic, origin offload, hit rates by window, surgical
purges.

[⌊Heaviest images: the files costing the most bandwidth, one-click Tinify shrinking,
and what the shrinking has saved so far.⌉⌊Heaviest images: the files costing the
most bandwidth, one-click Tinify shrinking, and what the shrinking has saved so 
far.⌉[

Heaviest images: the files costing the most bandwidth, one-click Tinify shrinking,
and what the shrinking has saved so far.

[⌊Redirects: legacy URLs answered at the edge, patterns and exact rules with usage,
unused rules folded away.⌉⌊Redirects: legacy URLs answered at the edge, patterns
and exact rules with usage, unused rules folded away.⌉[

Redirects: legacy URLs answered at the edge, patterns and exact rules with usage,
unused rules folded away.

[⌊Live 404s: paths your server keeps answering with a 404, with bot share and one-
click redirect or block.⌉⌊Live 404s: paths your server keeps answering with a 404,
with bot share and one-click redirect or block.⌉[

Live 404s: paths your server keeps answering with a 404, with bot share and one-
click redirect or block.

[⌊Your audience: humans versus bots, served-from-cache speed, referrers, devices
and countries, no tracking script.⌉⌊Your audience: humans versus bots, served-from-
cache speed, referrers, devices and countries, no tracking script.⌉[

Your audience: humans versus bots, served-from-cache speed, referrers, devices and
countries, no tracking script.

[⌊Static assets: edge hit rate for stylesheets, scripts and fonts, versioned addresses,
bandwidth offloaded.⌉⌊Static assets: edge hit rate for stylesheets, scripts and 
fonts, versioned addresses, bandwidth offloaded.⌉[

Static assets: edge hit rate for stylesheets, scripts and fonts, versioned addresses,
bandwidth offloaded.

[⌊Query params: which parameters split the cache, which are guarded, with one-click
collapse.⌉⌊Query params: which parameters split the cache, which are guarded, with
one-click collapse.⌉[

Query params: which parameters split the cache, which are guarded, with one-click
collapse.

## Встановлення

 1. Upload the plugin and activate it (or paste your API key on the **Managed Edge**
    tab; the managed edge provisions itself and fills the settings in for you).
 2. Free / bring-your-own-zone: open **Nivoli Edge  Settings**, confirm the auto-detected
    image host + path prefix, toggle Enabled.
 3. Add rules under **Image rules** if specific sizes need specific treatment, or let**
    Size mapping** create them from your theme’s registered sizes in one click. Catch-
    all handles the rest with zero config.
 4. For HTML caching, open **Settings  Page cache** and pick a backend (managed Nivoli
    with your API key, or your own Fastly / CF Enterprise / webhook).
 5. The **Dashboard** shows whether everything’s working and what the edge is doing
    for you.

## Часті питання

### Does this require Cloudflare Pro?

Cloudflare Image Resizing is bundled with Pro plans or available as per-1000-transforms
pay-as-you-go. Either is fine.

### Will this break my theme?

No. The plugin only modifies URLs at the filter boundary; the HTML structure your
theme outputs is unchanged. Use the `no-cf` CSS class on any element to opt out.

### How is this different from Smush / ShortPixel / Optimole?

Those plugins compress and re-host images on their own CDN. Nivoli Edge transforms
on the fly from your origin: no asset duplication, no migration step, no storage
bill.

### What’s the difference between Free and Managed?

Everything the plugin does on your own server is free and fully functional: image
rewriting, page-cache purging, audits, prewarming, alerts, reports. Nothing phones
home. An API key connects the plugin to the Nivoli managed edge: we run the Cloudflare
zone and page cache for you (no Cloudflare setup at all) and the service adds what
a plugin alone can’t, such as edge-side usage statistics, per-URL traffic insights,
edge URL rules and security shields, custom hostnames, watermarking, and multi-site
fleet management.

### What if I lose access to my license email?

Confirmation and unlock links go to the email address on your Nivoli license and
nowhere else; that is what makes the locks hold against a takeover. Support can 
move the license to a new address after verifying you own it. Until then the locks
stay as they are and the site keeps running; only changes that weaken protection
wait.

### Does the install lock break automatic updates?

No. Automatic background updates run from wp-cron on your server and WP-CLI runs
on the box; neither passes through the edge, so neither is affected. Only installs,
uploads, updates and deletes started from wp-admin are refused, and you open a 15-
minute window by email when you want to do one yourself.

### What if my site gets hacked anyway?

The locks stop the intruder from switching the shields off, installing anything 
through WordPress, or redirecting the confirmation address, and every attempt lands
in your inbox and on the Locks page with its time and address. What no edge control
can do is undo code already running on your server: cleaning the box is still yours(
scan, restore, rotate). The locks make sure the compromise stays where it landed.

### Does the page caching conflict with my security plugin (Wordfence, Sucuri)?

No. Different layers: security plugins inspect requests inside WordPress/PHP; Nivoli
Edge’s ten shields run at Cloudflare’s edge, before the request reaches your server.
It sheds junk traffic so your origin and your security plugin only see real visitors.
They complement each other.

### Do I need to change my nginx / web-server config?

Only if your origin runs its own micro-cache (nginx fastcgi/proxy cache, Varnish)
and you use the manual purge trigger; the Cache protection pane shows the exact 
one-line snippet. A standard PHP-FPM origin needs no server changes at all.

## Відгуки

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## Учасники та розробники

“Nivoli Edge” — проект з відкритим вихідним кодом. В розвиток плагіну внесли свій
вклад наступні учасники:

Учасники

 *   [ calimonk ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/calimonk/)

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## Журнал змін

Recent releases are listed below. The full history for every version is in CHANGELOG.
md, which ships with the plugin, and on the GitHub releases page.

#### 1.64.0

Settings window, with the edge (admin-v2.34.0): the confirmation page now offers
Apply, or Apply and unlock settings for 15 minutes. In that window, settings changes
from WordPress go through without another email and each one is listed under Lock
activity; installs stay locked and the change lock itself still needs a confirmation
to turn off. The Locks page shows the window on the change-lock card with a Lock
again now button; Lock activity names the new events.

#### 1.63.0

Plan-bound windows, with the edge (admin-v2.33.0): every analytics picker offers
30 and 90 days; options above your plan’s analytics window (7 days on Starter, 30
on Growth, 90 on Business and Agency) show greyed with the plan that has them; the
Audience card, the Attack surface card and the Origin shield history gained day 
pickers. The Origin shield pane says how long your plan covers an outage (a day 
on Starter, a week from Growth); Email and reports names the weekly report Growth
and up receive every Monday.

#### 1.62.0

Rule cap by plan: 100 redirect and block rules per site on Starter, 500 on Growth,
1000 on Business and Agency (the edge used to stop everyone at 100). All rules shows
how many of your plan’s rules are in use, turns amber at 80 percent and names the
plan that raises it; the Redirects tile counts against the same cap; the 404 import
refuses an apply that would not fit before sending it, with the count and the next
plan.

#### 1.61.0

All rules (was URL rules): the one ordered list every edge rule runs through, numbered,
with move up and down arrows because the first match wins. Redirect rows stay in
the list in grey with their position and an Edit on Redirects link; blocks are added
and edited here, the form makes blocks only. The per-path analytics split: What 
your blocks answered under All rules, Where your redirects fired under Redirects.

#### 1.60.1

404 import: the Old URL column kept its width (fixed table layout; it collapsed 
to one character next to the destination field), a junk URL defaults to Block even
when its last segment happens to be a live slug, and a generic last segment such
as index or feed never counts as an exact match.

#### 1.60.0

URL handling is four pages: URL rules, Redirects (overview and the add form, now
above the list, with generic examples), Live 404s (the suggestions inbox that used
to sit under Redirects, on its own page) and the 404 import. The rail order matches
the flow: see what is asked for, import what Google still holds, write the rules.

#### 1.59.0

404 import (Managed Edge > URL handling): upload the Search Console Not found (404)
export or paste URLs. Every dead path is matched against your posts, pages, tags
and categories, grouped by URL family (/tag/, /Walkthroughs/, a year), and shown
with a destination preselected where the match is confident and Block preselected
for junk. Apply writes the ticked rows as one rule change; a family can be blocked
with one shape-matched pattern, or redirected slug for slug when three or more members
map onto one prefix. Handled, skipped and awaiting-confirmation rows stay on the
list, and a rule that appears on the edge later settles its rows automatically.

#### 1.58.4

Fake images pane: a row recorded before the file sniffer stored what the bytes are
is shown as unknown data instead of raising two PHP warnings per row; same for the
CLI listing.

#### 1.58.3

Locks page: the install-unlock request has its own marker, so dismissing the change-
lock notice can no longer hide an open unlock window; the page keeps reading the
edge until the window shows. Stray-PHP allowlist: patterns are checked against the
JavaScript regex dialect the edge uses, and PCRE-only syntax such as (?i) or \A 
is refused with the construct named instead of silently exempting nothing. Adding
a 41st path to the allowlist is refused out loud instead of dropped.

#### 1.58.2

Managed Edge pane cache, from the external review: a save no longer wipes every 
cached pane read (the Locks page came back fully cold and the dashboard widget went
blank); forgetting a read that was never cached no longer purges everything; on 
Redis or Memcached hosts the health check now counts the cached reads through its
registry instead of reporting empty; while a confirmation is pending only lock and
shield state is re-read live, analytics stay cached, and a failed re-read serves
the cached copy instead of fetching twice; a background refresh can no longer overwrite
a state a save just changed.

## Мета

 *  Версія **1.64.0**
 *  Останнє оновлення **23 години тому**
 *  Активних встановлень **Менше 10**
 *  Версія WordPress ** 6.2 або вище **
 *  Tested up to **7.1**
 *  Версія PHP ** 7.4 або вище **
 *  Мова
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/nivoli-edge/)
 * Позначки
 * [cache](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/cache/)[cloudflare](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/cloudflare/)
   [image optimization](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/image-optimization/)
   [performance](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/performance/)[security](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security/)
 *  [Розширений перегляд](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/nivoli-edge/advanced/)

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## Учасники

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## Підтримка

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