u/ogrekevin

Hello!

A while ago I rolled out a free CDN service for WordPress (Shift8 CDN). I just retired that and migrated the endpoints to be positioned as a free WAF-as-a-service called "Atomic Edge".

Atomic Edge puts protection in front of your site with an edge Web Application Firewall, traffic filtering, AI-assisted threat detection, logging, analytics, page rules, geographic rules, rate limiting, and CDN features.

The Atomic Edge WordPress plugin linked here is the companion plugin that makes setup and management easier from inside wp-admin. It can connect your WordPress site to your Atomic Edge account, show security and traffic data, help manage settings, and provide useful tools like malware scanning and integration with Atomic Edge features.

The plugin is helpful, but it is not strictly required for the core protection to work. You can technically use the dashboard directly without the plugin at all.

One of the main pain points (I've had) with services like cloudflare (unless you are an enterprise customer) is having to hand over the entire DNS (nameserver) management to their service. For Atomic Edge, you just change the "A" of your apex to go through the endpoint, and thats it.

Happy to hear thoughts and feedback.

It became a intriguing challenge to streamline the ability to animate a scrolling effect of a very large (height) image , using different speeds animations and directional controls.

At its core, the plugin is very simple, but since nothing (that I found) existed that easily implemented this (and was builder agnostic), I thought why not make it a plugin in case anyone else finds it useful.

You can check out the plugin directly here