Michelangelo van Dam

In this article I’m adding another page that will display the contents of an article while I provide links to this page in the main page.

Static content should be delivered fast and preferrably without many processes on top to slow it down. Nginx is very suited for this job.

Add a layer of protection between your static HTML frontend and the WordPress API as backend. This will ensure no direct calls can be made against WordPress and gives you control over what kind of requests you allow.

Creating a static HTML page to access the WordPress REST API and pull in the article titles without requiring PHP or any other language engine.

This is a tutorial on scaling WordPress beyond just multiple instances with a highly scalable static frontend and a trusted backend.