WordPress
Make your WordPress site static, without a plugin.
Keep WordPress where it is and keep writing in it. The public gets a copy of your pages as files: no database, no plugins, no login page. We only need the address — nothing is installed, and nobody needs your password.
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.
Why not a plugin?
The usual way to make WordPress static is a plugin that runs inside WordPress and writes the pages out. That works if you can install plugins, keep that one updated too, and look after wherever the files end up.
It does not work on an installation somebody else manages, on a WordPress.com plan that does not allow plugins, or on a site nobody has the login for any more. We read the finished pages from outside, the way a visitor does, so none of that matters: if the site answers on an address, it can be copied.
What happens to your plugins
They keep working where they work now: in your admin. A page builder, an SEO plugin, a gallery or a slider has done its job by the time a page is finished, so what it made is in the copy.
What changes is that none of them answers a visitor any more. An outdated plugin is no longer a way into the site the public sees, and an update that goes wrong breaks your editing, not your website.
Contact forms, search and comments
After the first copy of your whole site you get a list of everything on it that needs something running behind it, with the page it is on. What happens to each:
- A contact form or a newsletter sign-up — Contact Form 7, WPForms and the like — is received by us when a visitor sends it, mailed to you and listed on your site's page. The form looks exactly as it does now.
- The search box answers from the text of your pages. It is a search over the words on them, not WordPress's own search, and the list says so.
- Comments and logins cannot be files. They are listed for you, not taken over.
- A shop's cart and checkout need WordPress behind them, so a static copy is not the way to run a shop.
When you change something
Write and edit in WordPress as you always have, then publish the copy. Each publish is listed with the pages that were added, changed or removed, so you can see it went through — and notice a page that changed without you.
Your domain and your rankings
When you are satisfied with the copy, your domain points at it and WordPress moves to a second address, such as wp.yourcompany.com, where you keep editing.
Search engines then read the same pages at the same addresses — the same words, the same headings, the same links — so nothing they know about your site is thrown away. A trial copy is never indexed, so it cannot compete with your site.
Questions people ask
- Do I need to install a plugin?
- No. Nothing is installed in WordPress and we never ask for a login. We need the address and nothing else.
- Does it work with Elementor, Divi or the block editor?
- The page builder has done its work by the time the page is finished, and the finished page is what we copy. The quickest way to be sure for your site is to put in its address and hold the two side by side.
- Is this the same as a caching plugin?
- No. A cache keeps WordPress answering visitors, faster. Here WordPress stops answering visitors at all: the public gets files, and WordPress is only there for you to edit in.
- My WordPress has been hacked. Will this fix it?
- Clean it first. We copy what the site shows, so a copy of a compromised site carries whatever was put into its pages. Making the site static is how it stops happening again, not how it is undone.
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.