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Leon, thanks for the kind offer. Our WP site is merely a stepping stone while we dev our own so there’s no need to go to too much trouble. (I thought generating static pages was going to be a few hours work, boy was I wrong!)

I’m going to mark this as resolved, hope that’s ok.

Hi Leon, sorry for not replying sooner but it’s been hectic here. This plugin did work once I extended exe time, but the issue that ruined the whole static page thing for me is the developers used WooCommerce for absolutely everything! This means the site would need a lot of work to be able to operate as a static site. That’s time I cannot put into it, so I’ve had to shelve it for the meantime and simply find a better WP host! Very frustrating!

But thank you very much for the work you put in; it’s a great plugin. In the end it took almost 2 hours to run, but the site is over 7GB, so not surprising….

Would you like me to leave this issue as unresolved until you and Javier have sorted your issues out?

No worries, Leon. I spoke to my hosting provider and got them to increase the exe limit. It does create loads of files now so I think all I need to do is make sure the limit it long enough for the full crawl to take place. There’s about 250 pages with loads of images so I reckon it’ll take upwards of a half hour or more… I’ll update again when I have more news.

Hey Leon – thanks for replying.

I created a Github repo to test it with but the export doesn’t even get going (I just see the old export log and nothing new gets added).

I’ll chat to my hosting provider today to see if they will remove the limits temporarily, but I don’t think they’ll remove them permanently…

I’m happy to use Github, so maybe we can get that going instead? Maybe I’m doing something wrong? Or some access issue on the server etc?

I hear you @designac!

I do have an update now, actually: our site is hosted by a pro WP hosting company and they couldn’t figure it out either (permissions all good etc). They did the manual update and it went ok.

Problem was it broke NinjaForms. So, involved NF support and a few hours later they solved that problem! But they won’t tell me how…

Couple of days later an incremental update was performed (4.9.1, automatically I presume) and that was successful, but again it broke NF!

I’m just waiting for the next update to break things at this point. Very disappointing.
We’ll move away from WP as soon as we can – it’s a very poor product for a small business IMO. Maybe fine for a blog, but not as a POS.

I’m sorry I don’t have a more complete, and permanent, fix for anyone reading this!

Thanks, guys. I appreciate the suggestions, and the swift response.

It looks like a manual update is the only way…

Which is pretty disappointing really; I would prefer to have an actual solution (like a bug-fix from the WP team, if that’s what’s needed, or advice on setting permissions on the host etc).

Anyway, I’ll leave this here for a bit and see if any other suggestions come in!