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Static site generators, at least how they exist today, are unfortunately massively impractical for the vast majority of Wordpress users. Heck, I am a pretty tec
by kinkrtyavimoodh 9y ago
Static site generators, at least how they exist today, are unfortunately massively impractical for the vast majority of Wordpress users. Heck, I am a pretty technical user and even I regret moving my blog to a static generator.
- baby 9y agoYep. I don’t understand this trend. I would never use a static blog myself unless they would offer an online administration. And it would be weird to have such a thing for something that claims to be static.
- daxelrod 9y agoI haven't looked into this for over a decade, but that's exactly how Movable Type used to work. The blog is generated as static files by the admin interface, which is web based but can be completely isolated from the publicly facing site.
- thirdsun 9y agoThere are countless CMS for static sites / blogs these days: - https://www.datocms.com/ https://www.datocms.com/ - https://www.netlifycms.org/ https://www.netlifycms.org/ - https://www.siteleaf.com/ https://www.siteleaf.com/
- baby 9y agoimo this is re-inventing the wheel, the same with a caching system in front of a database is way easier and cleaner to implement
- stevenicr 9y agoThank goodness I have found two static page generators in the wp plugin repo that actually work - I have now converted about 20 wordpress sites into static html pages and pulled the php files all down. I could do more, but some of these sites depend on contact forms - which I know can be made outside wp - but it's extra work I can't jump into at the moment. This has cut down the hacking on more than 20 sites - and I am doing some more as I run into them. Tons to love with wordpress, but lots of reasons to turn it static and avoid the non-stop brute forcing of it.