I recently made a YouTube tutorial on converting a WordPress site to a static HTML site. This blog post is a companion to the video.
First of all, why convert a WordPress site to a static HTML site? There are a number of reasons, but my primary concern is to reduce update fatigue. WordPress software, along with WordPress themes and plugins, have frequent security updates. Many sites have stable content after an initial editing phase, the need to apply never-ending security updates for a site that doesn’t change doesn’t make sense.
The example site I used in the tutorial is www.stress2012.com, a site for an academic conference/workshop that was held in 2012. It’s 2024: the site content is not going to change.
To mirror the site, I used Wget with the following command:
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