Turning older version into a static, read-only site

  • Resolved Pierre Mobian

    (@netagence)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    I have a client who manages yearly events, and creates a new website for each new one. We keep the current one under the WWW address, but everybody also wishes to keep the old websites, so we create subdomains for that – 2014.site.fr etc. I’m ok with keeping them online, but of course the last thing I want is to have to manage updates and security for many sites, some dating from many years ago.
    Any plugin or solution that you know to turn them into static, read-only sites ? I’d be ok with not even having a backoffice for them anymore. I thought to study this on a server level, but there may be a more elegant, “official” WP solution ?

    Thank you.

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  • You might be able to use a program like HTTrack ((https://www.httrack.com/) to download the entire website as a set of static HTML files. Then delete the WordPress install and just upload the HTML files.

    I don’t know how this would work with certain plugins (contact form, etc.), but you probably won’t need them for an archive site. You might be able to disable them ahead of time.

    Thread Starter Pierre Mobian

    (@netagence)

    Thank, I also found relevant plugins in the meantime and will explore those options.

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