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by hombre_fatal 411 days ago
You can use WordPress as a static site generator: https://simplystatic.com/

Then WordPress is just your private CMS/UI for making changes, and it generates static files that are uploaded to a webhost like CloudFlare Pages, GitHub Pages, etc.
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sureIy 411 days ago
It has been a long time since I tried that, but it was never as simple as they claimed it to be.

Now that plugin became a service, at which point you might just use a WP host and let them do their thing.

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hombre_fatal 410 days ago
Yeah, true. There are other options that might be better like https://wordpress.org/plugins/staatic/.

I think a crawler that generates a static directory from your site probably the best approach since it generalizes over any site. Even better if you're able to declare all routes ahead of time.

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