# How to Optimize Wordpress Performance with nginx and WP Super Cache

DevFeed: [How to Optimize Wordpress Performance with nginx and WP Super Cache](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-optimize-wordpress-performance-with-nginx-and-wp-super-cache-31833.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.metachris.dev/2016/02/how-to-optimize-wordpress-performance-with-nginx-and-wp-super-cache/>)

Author: Chris Hager

Published: 2016-02-21T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Chris Hager](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/chris-hager.md>)

Topics: [nginx](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nginx.md>), [WordPress](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/wordpress.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [PHP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/php.md>), [HTML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/servers.md>)

Tags: [apache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apache.md>), [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [config](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/config.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [html](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/html.md>), [nginx](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nginx.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [php](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/php.md>), [wordpress](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/wordpress.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial explains how to improve WordPress performance by using WP Super Cache to generate static HTML files and configuring nginx to serve those files directly, bypassing PHP for anonymous users. It also covers testing, troubleshooting, and cache verification.

## Source excerpt

This is a simple and effective method how to serve Wordpress pages blazingly fast: produce static HTML files with WP Super Cache, and serve them directly with nginx. WP Super Cache (on Github) is an immensely popular, official Wordpress caching plugin with more than 1 million active installations. Basically the plugin produces static html pages of your posts and pages, and anonymous users can directly load the html without any interaction with PHP.