Comments on: Convert WP to static HTML – part 2

By: ammon

ammon — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:25:41 +0000

Hi tommy,

Once you have the script on your server, you can run it from the command line. You’ll need to use a terminal (like PuTTy, if you’re using Windows). Make sure the permissions on the script are set so that your user has execute permissions (it would need to be 766, or rwxrwrw- if you do a ‘ls -lh’ to view the permissions). Then you’ll need to execute the script like so ‘./wpstatic’.

Hope that helps.

By: tommy

tommy — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:52:19 +0000

hello,

First I want to thanks you for writing the script above for everyone, it is so helpful especially for beginners like me.
sadly, I dont know how to run the script after uploading it to where wp-config.php is. Do I run it with MySQL? or using somthing else, Thanks!

By: ammon

ammon — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:10:55 +0000

Also check out the script that should convert a site for you: http://historicalwebber.mossiso.com/code/make-wordpress-static

By: ammon

ammon — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:49:55 +0000

Added another find/perl one liner to find and replace text in an html file.

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By: ammon

ammon — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:03:29 +0000

Yeah, the process takes care of the URL redirects to the new .html pages too. There’s usually no clean up of the files after the wget process.

Most of the blogs I’ve done so far used the default theme already, so I just stuck with that. It should work out fine with custom themes as well, since it just grabs what’s there (style sheets, images and all).

Sorry about the missing content. Your blog unfortunately suffered from being one of the guinea pigs. I think I finally have this process down pretty good now.

By: Jeremy Boggs

Jeremy Boggs — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:50:51 +0000

Nice write-up, Ammon, thanks! Does this process also take care of URL redirects to the new .html?

Also, why do you have to use the default theme? Can you do this so it uses the theme the blog had set prior to converting to HTML? I noticed when you did this to my Hist 120 class blog a few years ago, it reverted to the default theme instead of my custom class feed, which had some additional content that wasn’t in the database. Not complaining about that, just curious!