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Guided setup, smart defaults & WordPress asset CDN mode

Paradarum Team
Product & Engineering

Getting a site onto Paradarum just got a lot smoother: property creation is now a guided wizard, new properties ship with smart defaults (a static-assets cache rule and an automatic Host header), and the WordPress plugin v1.1.0 can serve your static assets through the CDN without touching DNS.

Guided property setup​

Create property is now a five-step wizard: name → origin → site type → domain (optional) → guided DNS. You pick your site type — WordPress, PrestaShop, or any other platform from the preset catalog — and the wizard seeds the matching cache and header rules. The choice is always yours: Paradarum never auto-detects your CMS.

Two things worth calling out:

  • The domain step is optional. Your site is live on its your-property.prdrm.net hostname the moment the property is created — connect your own domain now, later, or never.
  • Guided DNS with automatic verification. The wizard shows the exact CNAME to create and then polls your DNS for you — no retry-clicking; the hostname activates and SSL is issued as soon as the record propagates. We also published Connect your domain, a click-by-click walkthrough for Cloudflare (orange cloud off!), OVH, IONOS, GoDaddy and cPanel, including apex-domain options.

See the updated Fast start and Create your first property.

Smart defaults on new properties​

  • Default — cache static assets. Every new property is seeded with a cache rule that caches common static extensions (CSS, JS, images, fonts) for 7 days. It is a normal rule — editable, deletable, ordered last so your own rules and presets always win — and a Restore defaults action brings it back if you remove it. Details in Cache rules.
  • Auto Host header. New properties send your custom hostname to the origin by default, so shared hostings serve your real site instead of their default page when visitors arrive via *.prdrm.net. See Origin server and Host header.

WordPress plugin 1.1.0: serve static assets through CDN​

The WordPress plugin gains an optional mode that rewrites your wp-content and wp-includes asset URLs to your CDN hostname — so themes, plugin assets, uploads and core scripts are edge-cached without any DNS change, even before you connect your domain. One toggle in Settings → Paradarum CDN; details and limits in Serve static assets through CDN.