This plugin produces a static HTML version of your wordpress install, incredibly useful for anyone who would like the publishing power of wordpress but whose webhost doesn't allow dynamic PHP driven sites - such as Dropbox. You can run your development site on a different domain or offline, and the plugin will change all relevant URLs when you publish your site. It's a simple but powerful plugin, and after hitting the publish button, the plugin will output a ZIP file of your entire site, ready to upload straight to it's new home.
* The nature of a static site implies that any dynamic elements of your wordpress install that reply upon Wordpress plugins or internal functions to operate dynamically will no longer work. Significantly, this means comments. You can workaround this by including a non-Wordpress version of an external comments provider into your theme code, such as the Disqus comment system. Any page elements that rely upon Javascript will function normally.
* inability to correctly capture some relative links in posts
* inability to detect assets dynamically loaded via javascript after page load, these will need to specified separately (but will work)
Having issues with this plugin? I try to support any issues via the official support forum or email, but if you want to try some other plugins for static export, give these a go:
Developed by [**Leon Stafford**](http://leonstafford.github.io). If you have any questions about this plugin's usage, installation or development, please email me at: [leon.stafford@mac.com](mailto:leon.stafford@mac.com)
See the readme. In brief: you can't use dynamic WordPress functions such as comments on a static site. Use an external comments provider such as Disqus, or live without them.
Though this is no longer an officially supported PHP version, many of this plugin's users are running PHP 5.3 or earlier. This fix should once again allow them to use the plugin, which has not been possible for them since about version 1.2. If you are one of these affected users, please now upgrade and enjoy all the new useful features!
Plugin now ensures that formatted versions of your site's URL, ie //mydomain.com or http:\/\/mydomain.com\/ or the https/http equivalent are detected and rewritten to your target Base URL. The rewriting should now also work within CSS and JavaScript files.
Though this is no longer an officially supported PHP version, many of this plugin's users are running PHP 5.3 or earlier. This fix should once again allow them to use the plugin, which has not been possible for them since about version 1.2. If you are one of these affected users, please now upgrade and enjoy all the new useful features!
Plugin now ensures that formatted versions of your site's URL, ie //mydomain.com or http:\/\/mydomain.com\/ or the https/http equivalent are detected and rewritten to your target Base URL. The rewriting should now also work within CSS and JavaScript files.
From this update on, will only do major point increases, ie 1.3, 1.4, vs 1.3.1, 1.3.2. This is due to way WP plugin directory only reports usage stats across major version numbers.
This update brings much desired multiple export targets. Please note, it will need you to enter your settings again as the guts of the plugin changed quite a bit and a settings migration didn't make the cut.
* unlimited export targets
* desktop notifications alert you when all exports are completed (no more staring at the screen)
Good to be back into developing the plugin again. This release brings some good functionality, though may be some bugs. If so, please contact me to fix: lionhive@gmail.com Cheers, Leon
* 1-click generation and exporting to an FTP server
* improved user experience when saving and exporting sites (no more white screen of boredom!)
