I will start with the werid experience with one of WP themes – Polite and Polite Grid. I was wondering why my website make double requests on every page. One for the document and other for content. This was annoying as I was unable to measure traffic properly. It turned out that it was because of the theme I’ve been using for some time. Changing it to different one fixed it.

Second of all to make NGINX logs easier to handle I’ve created separate location entry for all the WP things, so the “real” traffic goes only to particular log and everything else goes in different place. Take a look:

location ~ /wp-* {
  access_log /var/log/nginx/michalasobczak.pl.wordpress.access.log;
  ...
} 
location ~ /favicon* {
   ...
}
location / {
  access_log /var/log/nginx/michalasobczak.pl.access.log;
  ...
}

I can now push these logs into Elasticsearch thru filebeat module and need not to bother about all WP-specific things that clutters NGINX logs.