location / {
location ~ [^/]\.ph (p\d*|tml)$ {
try_files /does_not_exists @php;
}
}

location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; # wp permalinks
location ~ [^/]\.ph (p\d*|tml)$ {
try_files /does_not_exists @php;
}
}

оригинал:

location / {

#start_nginx_wp
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; # wp permalinks
#end_nginx_wp

location ~ [^/]\.ph (p\d*|tml)$ {
try_files /does_not_exists @php;
}
location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|svg|js|css|mp3|ogg|mpe?g|avi|zip|gz|bz2?|rar|swf)$ {
expires 6h;
}
}