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by breck 655 days ago
> You clone what? A WordPress database?

You clone static site generated websites.

Scroll is designed for this, but there's no reason other SSCs can't copy our patterns.

Here's a free command line working client you can try [beta]: https://wws.scroll.pub/readme.html

Instead of favoriting feeds, you favorite repos. Then you type "wws fetch" to update all your local repos.

It fetches the branch that contains the built artifacts along with the source, so you have ready to read HTML and clean source code for any transformations or analysis you want to do.

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I love Wordpress, but the WordpressPHPMySQL stack is a drag. At some point I expect they will move the Wordpress brand, community, and frontend to be powered by a static site generator.

To be quite honest, I suspect they'll probably want to use Scroll as their new backend.