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Maybe I didn't get something about this static blog generating trend thing, but what would be wrong about having a 'normal' database-backed blog software that s
by worldimperator 15y ago
Maybe I didn't get something about this static blog generating trend thing, but what would be wrong about having a 'normal' database-backed blog software that simply renders the pages staticly to a file (as it is an option with Rails caching) ? That would work with some simple inexpensive DB like SQLite, but still leave the system flexible and easy to edit with a backend.
- ionfish 15y agohttp://www.idlewords.com/2009/09/using_wordpress_to_generate_flat_files.htm http://www.idlewords.com/2009/09/using_wordpress_to_generate...
- JonnieCache 15y agoThat's how movable type, the predecessor to wordpress works. It's written in perl.
- mikeryan 15y agoThere's a popular Wordpress plugin which does something similar called WP Super cache. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/
- brandontreb 15y agoI use wp-super-cache for this. However, it's still not the same as static site generation. The entire Wordpress system still gets loaded at least to the plugin loading phase. There are numerous db hits that take place before this stage (mainly to figure out which plugins need to be loaded). Also, the PHP must be interpreted in order to render html. The static site generation has _none_ of this as it's already pre-rendered in html.