Leon Stafford

Hi itchin,

I’ll get right onto this…

Cheers,

Leon

Hi Sapirocco,

This is Ubuntu’s official page, which may be a good starting point (Mint 17 is based on Ubuntu 14.04, I believe, and steps should be identical).

https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/wordpress.html

If you encounter errors, try searching for answers on https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/

Hi Pkmarkevich,

Thanks for the kind words! Truth be told, there are a couple of other plugins which do static HTML output, but I hope to make this one standout.

Watch out for big update coming soon!

Cheers,

Leon

Hi Sapirocco,

Any personal computer (Mac, PC or Linux) will be able to run a webserver with WordPress.

Depending on what operating system you have, the instructions will vary.

Could you please let me know what operating system you have on your personal computer (desktop/laptop, doesn’t matter).

Cheers,

Leon

Hi Sapirocco,

Thanks for your interest in the plugin. I used to export a site with thousands of posts/pages, but I was running WordPress locally (on my personal computer) and so was able to allocate more memory/adjust PHP’s timeout settings.

I would suggest trying such a method out – running your WordPress locally, this may also save you a few $ if you are then able to cancel the GoDaddy hosting.

Let me know if you need help setting up on your local machine.

Cheers,

Leon

Hi Ben,

Thanks for using the plugin!

I’m currently working on the next update (multiple simultaneous exports), so this may not get resolved soon. In the interim, I think what may work is to reference those same files directly as images somewhere, set a display:none; style to hide them and they should get pulled into the export.

I realise the additional URLs needs an overhaul!

Cheers,

Leon

Hi @mrenergy,

Developer of the plugin here. Are you using a standard or customized theme?

It is usually (but not always) due to a certain way specific themes are structured that prevents the export to complete.

Feel free to reply here and/or email me at [email protected] with more details. I’ll try to get your site exporting properly.

Cheers,

Leon

Hi @qanfs,

Sorry for the late reply.

In general, if the links are to the same target image, you would only expect one copy of the image to be stored in the static site. I feel something else may have been the cause in this case.

For future users experiencing a similar problem, it will be helpful to know the WordPress theme you are using and if possible, a link to either your development server, static site or both.

Cheers,

Leon

Hi Sarah,

Sorry for my belated reply, just getting back to developing the plugin.

The issue sounds related to the ‘Base Url’ field in the plugin’s options. This should be set to the URL where you intend to run the static version of your website from.

For example, I develop my WordPress site on my computer, so the field starts as ‘localhost’ but I change this to my intended site, which is:

https://leonstafford.github.io/demo-site-wordpress-static-html-output-plugin

Then, when the plugin runs, it replaces all original links to ‘localhost’ with ‘https://leonstafford.github.io/demo-site-wordpress-static-html-output-plugin’.

This answer might be too late to help you, but hopefully will be of use to future users who came here with the same problem.

Cheers,

Leon

Hi there,

Sorry for the late response, I’m just getting back into developing the plugin.

RSS/XML feeds are something I had working at one stage with my own site which was running with the plugin a few years ago. I remember it was a bit fiddly, so I’ll try to work on a better solution.

Cheers,

Leon

Hi there,

Sorry for late response, just getting back into plugin development.

I’m working with the Avada theme now, as it poses a few challenges that the plugin needs to overcome for certain themes. I believe Avada connects with Slider Revolution, so hopefully will sort out that issue soon (else, feel free to remind/bug me soon ??

Cheers,

Leon

Hi there,

Sorry for the ubver-late response. Just getting back into developing the plugin.

Here is a little post about search options for a static site:

https://leonstafford.github.io/demo-site-wordpress-static-html-output-plugin/optimizing-your-wp-site-for-static-export/

Cheers,

Leon

Hi,

Your CSS links are not correct on the exported HTML.

The plugin should work fine with relative links, but try setting absolute paths to the CSS in your WordPress templates to force it to pick them up and rewrite them to the new URL.

Cheers,

Leon

Hi Kahren,

Thanks for your interest in the plugin, nice to hear stories of it in the wild.

The index.html file generation is default as that is required for the static display of the pages.

Your clients need never know about those files though, all links in the exported html will still be to /post-id/ etc not /post-id/index.html

It sounds like your ZIP file is OK, try moving that ZIP file to your desktop and then extracting, may be a permissions thing with the folder you’re trying to extract it?

Hi Grendel,

Try switching back to the default WordPress theme if not already.

If you leave the checkbox for “retain files on server”, do they appear to be OK?

Cheers,

Leon