How do I connect my Wordpress site to my Cloudflare domain? Wordpress servers are not being accepted
I feel like I'm missing something extremely simple.
I bought a domain name registered on a Cloudflare, and made a Wordpress site. I'm trying to connect my Cloudflare Domain to my Wordpress site but my problem is Cloudflare requirres an IPv4 address, while Wordpress on has named servers.
My domain on Cloudflare is currently connected to Cloudflare's named servers, but will not allow me to change them to Wordpress's.
The first two images I posted are from Wordpress while the third is from Cloudflare.
Wordpress tells me all I need to do is:
"Replace all the name servers of your domain to use the following values:
ns1.wordpress.com
ns2.wordpress.com
ns3.wordpress.com"
But if I place any of those named servers into my Cloudflare DNS, I am told an "IPv4 address is required", as seen in Pic #4
Wordpress doe not provide IP addresses though and only uses named servers!
Is there a way to get around this that I'm just missing? I found no help on either Cloudflare or Wordpress's site.
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A record type is for ipv4 addresses. youre probably looking for the NS record typeThanks, I appreciate it.
I think you may be onto something, however, when I tell Cloudflare it's an NS record type, it still requires a name. (as shown in Pic 1)
Moreover, Wordpress tells me
"Find the name servers on your domain’s settings page.
Replace all the name servers of your domain"
But as Pic 2 shows, Cloudflare has named servers, though I am unable to delete them like WordPress tells me I should.
I feel like there's no clear instructions from either site and I'm driving myself crazy for what should be a simple operation.
you can't change your domains authoritative dns if you're with the cloudflare registrar
for this you would have to transfer your domain
perhaps look at the resources that the WordPress site provides to see if there is any information on how to use it with cloudflare
Look through the help pages or your website settings for the ip addresses to set. The instructions by default wil ltell you to set nameservers, but if you dig you should be able to find the ip addresses to set as the
A record in cloudflare