# WordPress-Nginx Series is updated for WordPress 3.5

*Published:* 2013-03-10
*Author:* Rahul Bansal

> 12 articles in WordPress-Nginx tutorial series are updated to make use of WordPress 3.5 improved static-file handling for multisite.

[![wordpress-nginx](https://rtcamp.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/09/wordpress-nginx.jpeg?resize=220%2C91&quality=100&strip=all "wordpress-nginx")](https://rtcamp.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/09/wordpress-nginx.jpeg?quality=100&strip=all)If you are reading or following our WordPress-Nginx tutorials series AND if you are using WordPress-Multisite, please note that we have updated articles in the series for WordPress 3.5.

WordPress 3.5 handles static-files in multisite setup without getting PHP & MySQL involvement. This change can improve performance radically for fresh multisite setup.

**Following articles are updated:**

1. [Creating A WordPress Multisite Network with Nginx](https://easyengine.io/tutorials/ "Creating A WordPress Multisite Network with Nginx")
2. [Nginx + WordPress-Multisite + Subdirectories + (optional) Domain-Mapping](https://easyengine.io/tutorials/ "Nginx + WordPress-Multisite + Subdirectories + (optional) Domain-Mapping")
3. [Nginx + WordPress-Multisite + Subdirectories (in a subdirectory itself)](https://easyengine.io/tutorials/ "Nginx + WordPress-Multisite + Subdirectories (in a subdirectory itself)")
4. [Nginx + WordPress-Multisite + Subdirectories + WP Super Cache + (optional) Domain-Mapping](https://easyengine.io/tutorials/ "Nginx + WordPress-Multisite + Subdirectories + WP Super Cache + (optional) Domain-Mapping")
5. [Nginx + WordPress-Multisite + Subdirectories + W3 Total Cache + (optional) Domain-Mapping](https://easyengine.io/tutorials/ "Nginx + WordPress-Multisite + Subdirectories + W3 Total Cache + (optional) Domain-Mapping")
6. [Nginx + WordPress-Multisite + Subdomains + (optional) Domain-Mapping](https://easyengine.io/tutorials/ "Nginx + WordPress-Multisite + Subdomains + (optional) Domain-Mapping")
7. [Nginx + WordPress-Multisite + Subdomains + WP Super Cache + (optional) Domain-Mapping](https://easyengine.io/tutorials/ "Nginx + WordPress-Multisite + Subdomains + WP Super Cache + (optional) Domain-Mapping")
8. [Nginx + WordPress-Multisite + Subdomains + W3 Total Cache + (optional) Domain Mapping](https://easyengine.io/tutorials/ "Nginx + WordPress-Multisite + Subdomains + W3 Total Cache + (optional) Domain Mapping")
9. [Nginx + WordPress + fastcgi\_cache with conditional purging](https://easyengine.io/tutorials/ "Nginx + WordPress + fastcgi_cache with conditional purging")
10. [Nginx + WordPress-Multisite + Subdirectories + fastcgi\_cache with conditional purging + (optional) Domain-Mapping](https://easyengine.io/tutorials/ "Nginx + WordPress-Multisite + Subdirectories + fastcgi_cache with conditional purging + (optional) Domain-Mapping")
11. [Nginx + WordPress-Multisite + Subdomains + fastcgi\_cache with conditional purging + (optional) Domain-Mapping](https://easyengine.io/tutorials/ "Nginx + WordPress-Multisite + Subdomains + fastcgi_cache with conditional purging + (optional) Domain-Mapping")
12. [Nginx Map + WordPress-Multisite + Static Files Handling + Nginx-Helper](https://easyengine.io/tutorials/ "Nginx Map + WordPress-Multisite + Static Files Handling + Nginx-Helper") – *(for multisite created before WordPress 3.5 released)*

If you have created multisite setup before WordPress 3.5, then this new static-file handling won’t be available to you even after you upgrade to WordPress 3.5. You can use [Nginx Map and Nginx-Helper](https://easyengine.io/tutorials/ "Nginx Map + WordPress-Multisite + Static Files Handling + Nginx-Helper") to improve static-file handling which is as fast as new WordPress way!

If you find any typo or mistake, please let us know. Its a huge task update so many articles!

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