Disable Cloudflare’s Rocket Loader on individual scripts in WordPress

Here is a quick guide on how to disable Cloudflare's Rocket Loader functionality on individual scripts in Wordpress using filters

Disable Cloudflare’s Rocket Loader on individual scripts in WordPress

Here is a quick guide on how to disable Cloudflare's Rocket Loader functionality on individual scripts in Wordpress using filters
Created: 22nd January 2025
Updated: 26th January 2025
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Today i was trying to find out how to disable Cloudflare’s Rocket Loader on certain scripts in WordPress, in normal HTML you would simply add the data-cfasync="false" attribute tag but this isn’t possible in WordPress

However it turns out it’s also super simple if you know the correct filters and a bit of PHP.

Simply add the following code to your functions.php or code snippet plugin of your choice.

function cy_modify_wp_script_attributes( $attr ) {
  // ID's of inline scripts that you want to disable Cloudflares Rocket Loader on
  $rocketloader_disabled = array(
    'core-framework-theme-loader-js-after',
    'script2...',
    'script3...',
  );

  if ( in_array( $attr['id'], $rocketloader_disabled, true ) ) {
    $attr['data-cfasync'] = 'false';
  }
  return $attr;
}
add_filter( 'wp_inline_script_attributes', 'cy_modify_wp_script_attributes');
add_filter( 'wp_script_attributes', 'cy_modify_wp_script_attributes');

In the example above i am disabling Rocket Loader on the script with ID core-framework-theme-loader-js-after but you can add any script you like, make sure to add any scripts it depends on also otherwise you will have issues due to order of scripts loading.

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