[ravishi]

A friend of mine used a WordPress plugin that did exactly that. He'd style and develop his WordPress website locally, then generate a static "snapshot" and deploy it. Of course it came with all the usual WP bloat and complications, but for my friend that's a feature, not a bug.

[noahjk]

I believe the most popular implementation of this is Leon Stafford's WP2Static (open source). I've heard good things about it for years, but have never personally tried it.