MakeStatic

WordPress maintenance

How much WordPress maintenance a static copy takes off your plate.

A maintenance plan pays for updates, backups, uptime checks and the afternoon an update goes wrong. Most of that exists because WordPress answers every visitor. With a static copy in front, visitors never reach WordPress, and what's left to maintain is smaller and far less urgent.

Start for free

Your whole site, on your own domain.
Free while we're in beta. No credit card.

Or test one page first, without an account

Test it on one of your pages

About twenty seconds, no account. You see your page and the copy side by side and click through it yourself.

By clicking, you confirm the site is yours or that you may copy it. We copy one page, keep it for 4 hours, and search engines never see it.

A copy that works like your site

A plain HTML export saves each page with the files it links to. Anything a page loads only after it opens, like images that appear as you scroll, a menu that fills in, content a script fetches or a link that redirects, often goes missing. And you hear about it from a visitor.

A MakeStatic copy works like your site, it doesn't just look like it. You test it yourself, side by side with your site, before deciding anything. And if a page of the copy ever behaves differently from yours, write to [email protected] and we'll fix it.

  • Images that load as you scroll, in every size your site has for phones and big screens.
  • Fonts, icons and everything your theme or page builder brings along.
  • Content a script loads after the page opens, and menus that fill in on hover.
  • Links that redirect to another address still redirect.
  • Videos that play and let you skip ahead.
  • Contact forms that deliver and a search box that answers.

What you no longer need

  • Rushing to install a security patch: an outdated plugin can't be reached through the pages people read anymore.
  • Caching and speed plugins: the pages are already finished files.
  • Downtime after a failed update: the copy keeps running whatever WordPress is doing.
  • Wondering what changed: every publish lists the pages that were added, changed or removed, so a page nobody meant to change shows up instead of hiding.

What's still yours

WordPress itself is still online, because that's where you edit. Keep it updated and secured as you do today. The difference: an update you haven't gotten around to can't reach a visitor, and one that breaks WordPress breaks your editing, not your website.

Frequently asked questions

Can I cancel my maintenance plan?
That depends on what it covers. The copy takes over the part that protects visitors and keeps the public site up. WordPress itself still needs its updates; whether you do them yourself or keep someone for them is up to you.
What does it cost?
Nothing while MakeStatic is in beta: your whole site, no credit card, no commitment. Trying a single page doesn't even need an account. At some point it will cost something, and when there's a price, you'll see it before anything about your site changes.

Free while we're in beta

MakeStatic is new, and while it's in beta you get all of it for free: your whole site, on your own domain. No credit card, no commitment.

At some point it will cost something. When there's a price, you'll see it before anything about your site changes.