A production-ready Nginx configuration for WordPress 6.9.4 — security blocks, static caching, Cloudflare real-IP, rate limiting, and wp-config.php essentials tuned for performance.

WordPress search queries can hammer your database and bring down a site under heavy load. Use Nginx rate limiting to cap search requests before they reach PHP.

Here are a number of Nginx configurations for common scenarios that should help make things easier to get started with. This page will grow as needed. Includes some sample configurations for Wordpress, Wordpress + W3TC, Drupal and NibbleBlog.