Simplest way to Create your own Proxy Website using WordPress

If you are unable to access Websites you love, either because of your country's regulations (like Facebook and Twitter in China) or because of Work Place rules in your office, you can always access and use those blocked Websites using Proxy Servers or Websites by quickly and easily bypassing the filters.


Now you need a Proxy Website, well there are tons of proxies available online and most of them are free but supported by ads, but if you would like to keep things under your own control, without revealing your tracks to a third-party website, you can build your own proxy site using WordPress.

SEE ALSO : 10 Best Free Proxy Websites to access Restricted Content

How to:

It takes less than a minute to make your site a proxy with wordpress.  All you need is a website (or blog) running WordPress.org software and the free RePress plugin.

Step 1: Make sure that Permalinks are enabled for your WordPress installation. Open your WordPress admin dashboard, choose Settings -> Permalinks and select any format for your Permalinks other than the default option. Save the changes.

Step 2: From the dashboard itself, go to Plugins -> Add New and search for Repress in the WordPress plugin repository. Install and activate the plugin.

Step 3: Next we need to white-list website domains that should be accessible though our new WordPress based proxy server. Go to Settings -> Repress and add one or more domain names that you would like to access from work and Save.

Your proxy server is now ready for use. If your WordPress site URL is xyz.com, you can access a site like youtube.com using the URL http://xyz.com/proxy/youtube.com. All the internal links on the YouTube website are rewritten to be served though the proxy site.