Convert WordPress to a Static Site with Simply Static
Transform your dynamic WordPress website into a static powerhouse using Simply Static. This WordPress plugin streamlines the process, ensuring your site benefits from the advantages of a content management system and a static HTML website.
Convert WordPress to a Static Site in Minutes
With Simply Static, the transition from a dynamic website to a static one is seamless.
Eliminating database calls significantly boosts your site’s speed, enhances security, and minimizes WordPress hosting costs.
How Simply Static Works
Wondering how to turn your dynamic website into a set of static HTML files but keep it looking and functioning like a dynamic site? Here’s how Simply Static works step-by-step.
Install Simply Static
Download Simply Static and Simply Static Pro from your account, install it in WordPress, and activate your license. It’s as easy as that.
Pick Your Deployment
Choose how to deploy/host your static files (your converted HTML and CSS WordPress website). Options include GitHub, Amazon AWS S3, Netlify, Simply CDN, ZIP file, and more.
Click to Convert
Next, use Simply Static as your static site generator and turn your dynamic WordPress site into a static version with one ‘Generate Static Files’ click.
Check & Launch
Review your static site and ensure functionality like forms and comments work, your static pages are all working, and the front end of your site looks good.
Increase Site Speed With a Static WordPress Website
The Simply Static plugin immediately speeds up your WordPress website by decoupling the WordPress database. Without this, there are no database calls, which makes for a faster site.
Simply Static also removes unneeded and bulky WordPress features like emojis, Rest API URLs, or WordPress version numbers.
When converting your site, it uses minification to reduce the size of your static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files.
With all of this in place, you won’t need caching, speed optimization, or minification plugins at all.
Broad Compatibility for Your Static Site
Whether you’re using popular SEO tools like Yoast SEO, RankMath, or WordPress themes/page builders like Elementor and Divi, Simply Static ensures your static site remains functional and optimized.
Even after converting WordPress to static, maintain interactivity with forms from plugins like Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, or Elementor. Plus, manage and display comments, ensuring user engagement remains intact.
You can also still offer users a seamless search experience with tools like Fuse.js or Algolia.
Export or Deploy Your Way
When setting up Simply Static, you’ll pick which export or deployment option you want.
This is the process of taking your site’s now static files and placing them on a web server where they can be accessed by your website visitors.
With Simply Static, you’ll set this up once, and it will be done with the click of a button whenever you make an update.
You can export it into a ZIP file for local web development or deploy it to a CDN (Content Delivery Network) service of your choice.
Simply Static supports everything from static hosting with GitHub Pages, Cloudflare, Netlify, BunnyCDN, AWS, and more.
Simply Static Free vs Pro
Simply Static is a free plugin, Simply Static Pro is a paid add-on that enhances the product’s feature set and Simply Static.
Features
Simply Static
Simply Static Pro
Deployment methods
ZIP and local directory
ZIP, local directory, GitHub (GitHub Pages, Cloudflare Pages, Netlify..), Amazon AWS S3, Digital Ocean Spaces, BunnyCDN or via SFTP
Multisite support
Single exports
Build exports
Incremental Exports
Forms integration
Search integration
Comments integration
Multilingual support
WP-CLI support
One-Click Basic Auth
Minification
Hide WordPress
Image Optimization
Hear from our happy Simply Static users
We helped thousands of people switch to Static WordPress. Read about their experience with us:
★★★★★
I was having many issues with malware, but it ultimately led me to this static solution for WordPress sites, and I’m enjoying this new approach to developing WordPress projects quickly and securely.
Andre Esteves Perrone
Developer & Instructor
★★★★★
I ended up converting one WordPress site to static, and it was super simple. I had one question about GitHub access, which was answered quickly.
Dan Holloran
Full-Stack-Developer
★★★★★
This is a great addition, as it allows a site to be hosted in S3/Cloudfront and prevents WordPress attacks.
Kevin Withnall
CTO
★★★★★
[…] Simply Static is a comprehensive solution for anyone looking to improve their WordPress site’s performance, security, and cost-effectiveness. With the bonus of outstanding support from Patrick, it’s a must-have for any WordPress user. Highly recommended!
Maarten Emmerink
Founder & CEO
★★★★★
Publishing a Jamstack site from WordPress gives the best of both worlds—flexible content creation with a serverless website (we publish to S3).
Douglas Stein
Director of Engineering
★★★★★
WordPress is very useful but too insecure, unreliable, and slow to be used by critical sites without a solution like this. This way, we get the benefits of WordPress without the downsides.
Jocelyn Earl
CTO
★★★★★
As an agency, we work with many customers who come to us with either existing WordPress sites or new sites that are perfect candidates for static sites. Supporting static sites is a lighter lift on the agency site, and the customer wins on better security and typically better performance […].
Jim Hankins
Founder & CEO
★★★★★
Static sites have many benefits. The pro version has a good feature for a solid implementation. I’ve encountered a few edge cases, and their support has been prompt and professional.
Scott Green
Founder & CEO
★★★★★
The plugin setup was easy and works great out of the box. The documentation is good, and support is great if needed, too!
Herbert Hoekstra
WordPress Developer