Thanks for this extremely useful video! I am so grateful to come across this.. For someone like me with a design background and no experience in coding, it was really easy and convenient to follow.. The hack for generating static website after using inspect tool to include files fixed the issue for me which no other person explained in any tutorial.. You r a genius sir! :D
@@jcwebtech Hi Jan, yes really useful and helpful indeed :) .. Needed one more small advice from you please. I uploaded my static files to Github repository which was looking and working fine until I put a custom domain I bought from GoDaddy. Now some icons and images are not showing on the website and when I inspect I see a couple of errors - "blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource". Please suggest.
@@SukhdeepSingh-sh6eb Did you export it for that custom domain in Simple Static? I suppose you did not, and that the switch between the domains on Github did not alter all the code and therefore is loading some of it resources via the old domain.
This was super cool thank you…. I was trying to use this to create a Wordpress (KadenceWP) HTML email flyer…. Concept workflow…. Trying to get it to work the way you explain… Warmest, (New Sub) Kai
Can you please summarize this long video? What plugin did you use? Export WP Page to Static HTML/CSS or Simply Staric, or something else? Does this also keep the images or is it just html and css?
Hi, first of great video, but just want to ask, is there a way to automate the url inclusion for every new post we create togather with all of the assests js/css files?
This video was VERY helpful! Thanks so much for creating it! Just one quick question.. What happens when I want to modify the content of the HTML site? For example - I want to add a couple of new Blog posts and update the text on a content page. Do I just perform the updates on my Local WP build, then use Simply Static to re-generate the HTML and then re-upload to my web server? I presume I would need to do this every time I make new content? (Which is a bit of a downside, but the pros of no backend, speed and security far outweigh!)
You are accurate in your assumptions, it is not suitable for website that changes a lot. On the other hand when you do this couple of times and find and fix all pottential issues, it only takes you about a minute to export and upload. There are payed solutions that automate it like payed versoin of this plugin for example.
@@jcwebtech Thanks again for making this video! I now have a static WP website in production and it's incredibly speedy! I'm doing all of the maintenance and updates locally, then just generating the static site and pushing it through FTP within minutes. If you don't already have a video on the paid version that automates the upload, it could be a helpful one!
Genio! Gracias! Tengo una web de más de 100.000 páginas, no quiero clonarla toda, solo algunos directorios, puedo hacer eso con solo una categoría? o tiene que ser la web completa? mi web es muy grande, y no quiero copiar toda la web, solo algunas categorías. Gracias
Por acaso estaba jugando co eso hace unos dias. Sí es posible, puedes copiar todo el contenido a la carpeta public_html de una instalación de wordpress, eliminar los directorios que equivalen a las paginas que no quieres que sean estaticas y las tienes publicadas como paginas wordpress. Solo tiene una trampa, tienes que cambiar el nombre de la carpeta wp-content en la instalación de wordpress de donde exportas o en la a donde lo vas a copier porque si no, acabarás con dos carpetas con el mismo nombre en el mismo directorio. Pero hay guias en el internet como hacer eso. O sea el workflow seria: 1) Migrar el sitio web a nueva instalacion 2) cambiar nombre de wp-content y meter las paginas que quieres tener estaticas en draft 3) Exportar todo de la antigua con Simple static 4) subir a public_html de la nueva 4) Eliminar los directorios que llevan las paginas que tienes publicadas con wordpress. And now I realised I should have written it in english for everyone to benefit. Well maybe Ill do video about it.
@@jcwebtech (JCwebTECH English Translation) - GPT-4: I was actually playing with that a few days ago. Yes, it's possible. You can copy all the content to the public_html folder of a WordPress installation, delete the directories that correspond to the pages you don't want to be static, which you have published as WordPress pages. There's just one catch, you have to change the name of the wp-content folder in the WordPress installation from which you are exporting or to which you are copying because otherwise, you will end up with two folders with the same name in the same directory. But there are guides on the internet on how to do this. So, the workflow would be: 1) Migrate the website to a new installation 2) Change the name of wp-content and put the pages you want to keep static in draft 3) Export everything from the old one with Simple Static 4) Upload to public_html of the new one 4) Delete the directories that hold the pages you have published with WordPress. And now I realized I should have written it in English for everyone to benefit. Well, maybe I'll do a video about it.
Thank you for making this in such detail. this was really insightful as I was looking for a method to see if this was possible. I had a quick question regarding plugins, in Wordpress backend the plugins are either automatically updated or you manually update them yourself from what I understand. Once you have all the new static site working and set up correctly on your hosting provider, do the plugins automatically update, or if not, how would you go about making sure they are up to date? Some I wouldn't need to worry about, but I have a specific one that I would like to keep up to date. Thanks again for the awesome tutorial! I will look forward to the follow-up video 👍
@@jcwebtech sorry if I didn’t make myself more clear - I think I understand what you mean. I guess the code for the plug-ins (such as PHP or whatever it is written in) will still be included in the export somewhere, is that correct? Thank you for your help
If you are exporting to a directory, is it necessary to delete ALL the files in that directory before running the export? Or does Simply Static overwrite the existing files where necessary?
Hi I downloaded simply static and uploaded to hostinger and it works as long as there are no plugins installed, otherwise the plugins, menus etc will not work?
Yes, it is called Contact Forms integration on Your Wordpress Static Site with #formspree and #SimpleStatic th-cam.com/video/nv7SbVLzX8M/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=JCwebTECH
In the Diganostic "Checking if WordPress can make requests to itself from" shows "Received a 301 response. This might indicate a problem." .. Can you please tell me how to solve this? TIA
Hey, well I am not support of this plugin but I can try to point you the right direction. 301 stands for permanent redirection. It is used when some page wes removed and substituted with new one on a new link. It can be also redirecting from http to Https. This message means such a situation was detected and may create an issue. I would probably try to export it and see if there is in fact any issue or go around the website with devtools set to network and see if there is any 301 instead of 200 code and what is it... Or see if you have some redirecting plugin installed and what is set there. Sometimes it can be also functionality of your seo plugin
@@jcwebtech Thanks for your response , But it works though it was saying "It might be an issue for not working", Hope I can see more useful videos in your channel frequently ... Subscribed
Thanks for the tutorial, I successfully converted my WP site into a static one. I've been trying to do this for the past 2 months. One question I have is that is there any way to set cache expires headers for the static site? Or should I be using a CDN?
Bro, you will never be. Static website mans you remove the backend. If you have a cart you cannot export to static. Maybe if you have some simple checkout that could be fully handled by service like paypal...
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Thanks for this extremely useful video! I am so grateful to come across this.. For someone like me with a design background and no experience in coding, it was really easy and convenient to follow.. The hack for generating static website after using inspect tool to include files fixed the issue for me which no other person explained in any tutorial.. You r a genius sir! :D
Thanks mate! Glad you found it useful and helpful :)
@@jcwebtech Hi Jan, yes really useful and helpful indeed :) .. Needed one more small advice from you please. I uploaded my static files to Github repository which was looking and working fine until I put a custom domain I bought from GoDaddy. Now some icons and images are not showing on the website and when I inspect I see a couple of errors - "blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource". Please suggest.
@@SukhdeepSingh-sh6eb Did you export it for that custom domain in Simple Static? I suppose you did not, and that the switch between the domains on Github did not alter all the code and therefore is loading some of it resources via the old domain.
@@jcwebtech Oh yes i realised quite late and did that..Thanks again for the confirmation :) it's working fine now 🙂
@@SukhdeepSingh-sh6eb would love a how to Text file for Github workflow thanks in advance
Awesome 👍... I subscribed and waiting for 2nd part of this video... Please bring it as soon as possible ☺️
Thanks for the support. 2nd video should be ready by the next week.
@@jcwebtech Did you ever get the 2nd video done on how to get the contact form working without the elementor back end?
This was super cool thank you…. I was trying to use this to create a Wordpress (KadenceWP) HTML email flyer…. Concept workflow…. Trying to get it to work the way you explain…
Warmest, (New Sub)
Kai
Can you please summarize this long video? What plugin did you use? Export WP Page to Static HTML/CSS or Simply Staric, or something else? Does this also keep the images or is it just html and css?
Can you please make a video about how to fix Contact forms and some basic features...
Just hookup mailchimp form
Very nice! Didn't know about this
Exactly! Me neither. I learned about it by accident. Feel free to share it with anyone who might find it useful
Excelente. Gracias.
What if I just bought a Wordpress template and want to export it as HTML/CSS/JS directly? Do I need to upload it before I try and extract those files?
in the plugin you have settings to export to view locally on your computer so you can test that before exporting it to upload online.
Hi, first of great video, but just want to ask, is there a way to automate the url inclusion for every new post we create togather with all of the assests js/css files?
Not sure if I understand? You want new posts automatically to appear on the website?
This video was VERY helpful! Thanks so much for creating it! Just one quick question.. What happens when I want to modify the content of the HTML site? For example - I want to add a couple of new Blog posts and update the text on a content page. Do I just perform the updates on my Local WP build, then use Simply Static to re-generate the HTML and then re-upload to my web server? I presume I would need to do this every time I make new content? (Which is a bit of a downside, but the pros of no backend, speed and security far outweigh!)
You are accurate in your assumptions, it is not suitable for website that changes a lot. On the other hand when you do this couple of times and find and fix all pottential issues, it only takes you about a minute to export and upload. There are payed solutions that automate it like payed versoin of this plugin for example.
@@jcwebtech Thanks again for making this video! I now have a static WP website in production and it's incredibly speedy! I'm doing all of the maintenance and updates locally, then just generating the static site and pushing it through FTP within minutes. If you don't already have a video on the paid version that automates the upload, it could be a helpful one!
Genio! Gracias!
Tengo una web de más de 100.000 páginas, no quiero clonarla toda, solo algunos directorios, puedo hacer eso con solo una categoría? o tiene que ser la web completa? mi web es muy grande, y no quiero copiar toda la web, solo algunas categorías. Gracias
Por acaso estaba jugando co eso hace unos dias. Sí es posible, puedes copiar todo el contenido a la carpeta public_html de una instalación de wordpress, eliminar los directorios que equivalen a las paginas que no quieres que sean estaticas y las tienes publicadas como paginas wordpress. Solo tiene una trampa, tienes que cambiar el nombre de la carpeta wp-content en la instalación de wordpress de donde exportas o en la a donde lo vas a copier porque si no, acabarás con dos carpetas con el mismo nombre en el mismo directorio. Pero hay guias en el internet como hacer eso. O sea el workflow seria: 1) Migrar el sitio web a nueva instalacion 2) cambiar nombre de wp-content y meter las paginas que quieres tener estaticas en draft 3) Exportar todo de la antigua con Simple static 4) subir a public_html de la nueva 4) Eliminar los directorios que llevan las paginas que tienes publicadas con wordpress. And now I realised I should have written it in english for everyone to benefit. Well maybe Ill do video about it.
@@jcwebtech (JCwebTECH English Translation) - GPT-4:
I was actually playing with that a few days ago. Yes, it's possible. You can copy all the content to the public_html folder of a WordPress installation, delete the directories that correspond to the pages you don't want to be static, which you have published as WordPress pages. There's just one catch, you have to change the name of the wp-content folder in the WordPress installation from which you are exporting or to which you are copying because otherwise, you will end up with two folders with the same name in the same directory. But there are guides on the internet on how to do this. So, the workflow would be: 1) Migrate the website to a new installation 2) Change the name of wp-content and put the pages you want to keep static in draft 3) Export everything from the old one with Simple Static 4) Upload to public_html of the new one 4) Delete the directories that hold the pages you have published with WordPress. And now I realized I should have written it in English for everyone to benefit. Well, maybe I'll do a video about it.
Thank you for making this in such detail. this was really insightful as I was looking for a method to see if this was possible.
I had a quick question regarding plugins, in Wordpress backend the plugins are either automatically updated or you manually update them yourself from what I understand.
Once you have all the new static site working and set up correctly on your hosting provider, do the plugins automatically update, or if not, how would you go about making sure they are up to date? Some I wouldn't need to worry about, but I have a specific one that I would like to keep up to date.
Thanks again for the awesome tutorial! I will look forward to the follow-up video 👍
Hi, Not sure I follow. Once you export it as a static CSS/HTML/JS, there are no plugins. Not in the export.
@@jcwebtech sorry if I didn’t make myself more clear - I think I understand what you mean.
I guess the code for the plug-ins (such as PHP or whatever it is written in) will still be included in the export somewhere, is that correct? Thank you for your help
everything looked great until i opened it and none of the images exported to zip...
so for so good... ant tips would help,
Danke!
👍👍
If you are exporting to a directory, is it necessary to delete ALL the files in that directory before running the export? Or does Simply Static overwrite the existing files where necessary?
I like to whipe it, but it should be able to overwrite the files.
thanks you bro Awesome
You are welcome!
Hi I downloaded simply static and uploaded to hostinger and it works as long as there are no plugins installed, otherwise the plugins, menus etc will not work?
Menus should work, some plugins that require database, like e-commerce plugins wont work. Check out for 404 in the console.
Where is the followup video on how to make the contact form work without the elementor back end?
Yes, it is called Contact Forms integration on Your Wordpress Static Site with #formspree and #SimpleStatic th-cam.com/video/nv7SbVLzX8M/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=JCwebTECH
Since its now a static site. Can i implement a backend for it ?
You can be fetching information via API from anywhere. I have done an integration with a firebase. But it requeires good knowledge of javascript.
Can i do this for a woocomerce?
Nope, mostly just for informative websites
I got the problem, can't implement the search engine, even I bought pro version. do you have a successfully case?
Hi, I haven't used the pro version yet. Try to reach out to the author of the plugin, he should be able to provide support...
Thank you...
In the Diganostic "Checking if WordPress can make requests to itself from" shows "Received a 301 response. This might indicate a problem." .. Can you please tell me how to solve this? TIA
Hey, well I am not support of this plugin but I can try to point you the right direction. 301 stands for permanent redirection. It is used when some page wes removed and substituted with new one on a new link. It can be also redirecting from http to Https. This message means such a situation was detected and may create an issue. I would probably try to export it and see if there is in fact any issue or go around the website with devtools set to network and see if there is any 301 instead of 200 code and what is it... Or see if you have some redirecting plugin installed and what is set there. Sometimes it can be also functionality of your seo plugin
@@jcwebtech Thanks for your response , But it works though it was saying "It might be an issue for not working", Hope I can see more useful videos in your channel frequently ... Subscribed
Thanks for the tutorial, I successfully converted my WP site into a static one. I've been trying to do this for the past 2 months.
One question I have is that is there any way to set cache expires headers for the static site? Or should I be using a CDN?
I guess it depends where you are caching it, if on cdn then you should set it on cdn, if not you could set it via plugin before you export it.
Hi. Could you give a link to the program for the local server? Tnx
Sure, it's called Local. Formally Local by freewheel. localwp.com/
@@jcwebtech Is it totally free? Any limitations?
@@fenixcustomsoftware yep
I really what you do
Thank you, I like doing it
I HAVE ONLY ONE PAGE EXPORTED WHY?
The pages need to link one to another, if you dont link from home anywhere it wont find them. You can add them manually
Bro i cant add items in cart after deploy
Bro, you will never be. Static website mans you remove the backend. If you have a cart you cannot export to static. Maybe if you have some simple checkout that could be fully handled by service like paypal...
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