How to deactivate a blog and turn it into html!

  • Hi dear community,

    I have an question: We used a wordpress installation for a project (a medium sized football tournament), which was a onetime thing.
    As there is no budget for any future support of the page, like updates, etc, I want to turn it into a html page and deactivate the dynamic php part. This way, I can rot on the webserver until hell frezes, for what I care ??

    Is there a way to do that? I suppose, there should be a witty linux command line script to do that, and I do not have to invent the wheel again, as I’m surely not the first one to do that.

    Thanks!

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  • May I suggest just turning off all the interactive elements of the blog, such as: comments; user registration; etc. If you turn off all the “dynamic” features and stop posting it essentially becomes a static web site.

    Then just let it sit until there is a “new” budget or someone else wants to donate their resources to maintaining the blog.

    Thread Starter pampfelimetten

    (@pampfelimetten)

    thanks for your answer, but in a couple of years it will run into security issues, when security bugs get uncovered, and at some point we will have compatibility issues with the rest of the server – php, sql, and so on.

    html is straight forward, and there will be no new budget, as it is a closed project – thats for sure. and if that unlikely should happen, I can re-upload wordpress and thats it.

    so – somebody got another suggestion?

    Just wondering why you’d want to do that, especially since the whole point of WordPress is that it’s easier to work with (once you get it going, of course). You could just view the source code of all your pages using your Web browser, copy the code into new HTML files, and publish them, but I don’t see what purpose it would serve. If no one is using the site, it should be taken down. If it will still be viewed, it should be maintained. From my perspective, it’s like you’re asking how to leave an old computer connected to the Internet forever without having to pay attention to it, but that’s okay because the computer does nothing. If websites didn’t need to be maintained, no one would maintain them, but the sad truth is, once you start a site, it’s yours forever.

    Thread Starter pampfelimetten

    (@pampfelimetten)

    @jonvs: Well, what is more simple: Keeping a html-page running forever or keeping a php-sql page running forever. I’d say HTML, so thats the reason.
    It isn’t my page, I only got paid for one year of support, but they want to keep it alive for documentation (government funded, you know), but not have to install updates every few weeks.
    Thats it

    Try something like this. No idea if it will work. Looks interesting enough to play with though. And something like that is the way you are going to have to go. You can’t really deactivate the ‘dynamic part’. The ‘dynamic part’ is pretty much everything.

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