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VercelPress turns your existing WordPress into a blazing-fast Next.js site on Vercel — you keep editing in WordPress, your visitors get an edge-cached frontend with green Core Web Vitals.

Quickstart →Go from WordPress to a deployed frontend in ~5 minutes.How it works →ISR, edge runtime, and on-demand revalidation explained.

Quickstart

Three steps from install to live:

Connect WordPress. Paste your site URL and install the VercelPress plugin (one click).
Deploy.We generate a Next.js frontend and ship it to Vercel's edge network.
Publish. Edit as usual — changed pages revalidate in seconds.

Install the plugin

Install from your WordPress admin, or via WP-CLI on your origin host:

# Install + activate the VercelPress plugin
wp plugin install vercelpress --activate

# Then paste the connection token from your VercelPress dashboard
wp option update vercelpress_token "vp_live_xxx"

How it works

Your WordPress stays exactly where it is. VercelPress fetches content via the REST API or WPGraphQL at build time, caches it at the edge, and serves a static-fast Next.js frontend. When you publish, the plugin sends a signed webhook that revalidates only the affected paths.

Revalidation

On save_post, delete_post, or a term update, the plugin POSTs a signed event. VercelPress maps the event to the exact paths and cache tags to invalidate, then triggers on-demand ISR — no full rebuild, no waiting.

Performance

Every page ships edge-cached and pre-rendered. Typical results moving from traditional WordPress hosting:

LCP: 4.2s → 0.7s
TTFB: 1.4s → ~90ms
CLS: 0.28 → 0.02

CLI

npx vercelpress login
npx vercelpress link        # link a WordPress site
npx vercelpress deploy      # trigger a deploy
npx vercelpress logs --site acme

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