Compared with HardyPress
HardyPress or MakeStatic: move your WordPress, or leave it where it is.
Both give the public a static copy of a WordPress site and host it for you. HardyPress moves your WordPress onto its own platform, where it runs only while somebody is editing. MakeStatic leaves your WordPress where it is and keeps everything its pages load, so the copy behaves like your site.
A copy that works, not just its HTML
Writing a site out as static HTML keeps what is in each page and the files it names. What a page asks for once it is open — the data a script fetches, a file another file loads, a redirect from an old address — is not among them, and that is where exported sites quietly stop working.
We keep every answer your site gave while its pages were opened, and give the same answer again: the same content, the same kind of file, the same redirect. That is why the copy behaves like your site instead of only looking like it — and why you can check it yourself, side by side, before you decide anything.
At a glance
| MakeStatic | HardyPress | |
|---|---|---|
| What the copy holds | Every answer your site gave, given again | The pages and the files they link to |
| Your WordPress | Stays where it is | Moves onto HardyPress |
| WordPress online | Yes, for you to edit in | Only while somebody edits |
| Access it needs | The address | Your WordPress, to import it |
| Systems | Any: WordPress, TYPO3, Joomla, Drupal, Ghost… | WordPress |
| Hosting | Included | Included |
| Files to take away | None — there is no export | The static site, and your WordPress files and database |
What this page says about HardyPress was checked on its own website on 25 September 2026.
Where HardyPress is the better choice
- You want WordPress off the internet while nobody is editing. With MakeStatic your WordPress stays online for you to edit in, and it stays yours to keep updated.
- You want to be able to download the static site and your WordPress.
- WordPress is all you run.
Where MakeStatic is the better choice
- You do not want to move your WordPress, or cannot: someone else manages it, or nobody has the login any more.
- Your site is not WordPress — or not only WordPress.
- You want to see the result before you decide. The trial copy of one page takes about twenty seconds, needs no account, and is shown beside your own site.
What to know about MakeStatic
Every page of the copy ends with one line of ours, "Made static with MakeStatic". There is no paid plan yet, and there is no way to take the files away.
Questions people ask
- Do I have to move my WordPress?
- Not for MakeStatic. We copy the pages from their address; your WordPress stays with whoever hosts it now.
See it on your own site
About twenty seconds, and nothing to sign up for. You will have your site and the copy open next to each other before you decide anything.