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by bicknergseng 3427 days ago
I wonder how hard it would be to convince folks to drop their expensive setups in favor of nearly $0 static sites, as well as how much up front cost they'd be willing to shovel out for the transition. S3 + CDN (+ Lambdas optionally) feels really ready to me for almost any straightforward "website." For most things GitHub/Lab pages is an easy path to that.
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frozenport 3427 days ago
A lot of folks who have static websites aren't technical and invested thousands of dollars for a WP website. If their site already runs, you wouldn't be providing anything.
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nine_k 3427 days ago
...unless they have to pay noticeable money for WP hosting due to serious load, or were bitten by security problems.

A free business idea: write a converter from WP to Jekyll (or Hugo) that converts 95% of a typical WP site right, sell total conversion services, maybe reselling hosting, too.

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davidbanham 3427 days ago
https://github.com/davidbanham/wp-to-wintersmith

Here's one I wrote a few years ago to go from Wordpress to Wintersmith.

The Wordpress export format is pretty gross, though.

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jlgaddis 3426 days ago
I have several WordPress sites (mostly "abandoned"/no longer updated) that I would love to convert to static sites. I would happily pay a decent sum for a tool that could completely handle that conversion/migration.
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davidak 3426 days ago
I used https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/ to convert a WP site with 10.000 pages. Took about 60 minutes so i had to increase PHPs max_execution_time. I also tested some other plugins before but most don't worked for me.

I had to turn off HTTPS for the generation time and reportet it as a bug to the developers.

I also converted another WP blog to Markdown and used it with a static site generator. My new site is not online yet, but here is the source of an article aout it: https://github.com/davidak/davidak.de/blob/master/pages/word...

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F_r_k 3426 days ago
Can't you just dump the website using wget ?
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davidak 3426 days ago
You can also use this but havn't testet it.

wget -N --recursive --page-requisites --html-extension --convert-links https://example.com/

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nine_k 3426 days ago
The idea is to keep the site inside a CMS, but a different CMS, one that generates (most) pages statically rather than on-the-fly.
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