2. WHAT’S THE STORY?
• Looking for options for clients who need a
great site, but don’t want a blog
• Eager to reduce hosting and maintenance
costs for sites that don’t update often
• This trend is happening, so better explore it
• Hosting for active WordPress-to-static sites
is expensive
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3. CLIFF JUMPING
• Decided to dig into WordPress-to-
static sites one week ago
• Spent 4 hours building and
outputting first static site
• Knowledge is a work in progress
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9. PRE-EXPORT TASKS
• Get rid of extra themes and plugins
• Delete unnecessary uploads
• Update exclude settings to prevent
export of feed, comments, .DS_Store
files on Mac, etc.
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10. HANDLING 404
• Create a 404 page in WordPress
• Use .htaccess to declare the location
of the 404 file on the server
ErrorDocument 404 /404/index.html
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11. HOSTING
• Currently hosted on BlueHost
• Playing around with Amazon Lightsail
• Might look at GitHub Pages
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13. STILL LEARNING
• Exporting single static pages
• The best way to clear demo content
before exporting to static
• Exploring hosting solutions
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