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Only tangentially related, but reminds me of something I ran across recently. I've been maintaining a couple of old blogs my wife used to write for years; I do
by tempestn 4y ago
Only tangentially related, but reminds me of something I ran across recently. I've been maintaining a couple of old blogs my wife used to write for years; I don't want to get rid of them, but it was a bit of a pain having to regularly keep wordpress updated and fix any related issues. Recently found a WP plugin, Simply Static, that will generate a static site from a wordpress blog, maintaining all the URLs and such. So it's perfect for my use case of archiving something that won't be added to in the future. But you can also use it for a live site, just exporting a new static version after each post.
Used it for those couple of blogs with zero issues, and now I can keep the originals around but inaccessible from the internet, so I don't have to worry about keeping them updated, aside from when I update php itself.
- heywhatupboys 4y agolink?
- cafeinux 4y agoThe first result of a "simply static wordpress" search seems to correspond to what you're asking for : https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/
- heywhatupboys 4y agono for the blog, I would like to be nostalgically reminded of blogs, they are hard to come by
- irdc 4y agoMaybe https://ooh.directory/ https://ooh.directory/ can help?
- heywhatupboys 4y agothat's awesome thanks! Do you know of any archive site that stored some of the old 2000's blogs?
- sundarurfriend 4y ago> So it's perfect for my use case of *archiving* something > I can keep the originals around but *inaccessible* from the internet So it's only tangentially related to cool URIs not changing, since in this case the actual URIs did (apparently) go kaboom, this plugin just helps maintain the internal links within their local archive.
- tempestn 4y agoTechnically it's not archived, but just the live wordpress install is no longer accessible. From a web users's perpective, nothing changed (aside from the pages maybe loading a touch faster).