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We’ve been busy working on our entire product suite, so I wanted to take a bit of time to show you our latest improvements.
Multisite
We completely restructured our multisite integration and finally shipped something many people asked about – a network control panel and a queue system.
Network Control
Starting from Simply Static Pro 1.7.4, you will be able to manage exports on the network level, providing a quick and easy overview of all your sites and their current export status.
Combined with our existing import feature on the subsite level, managing Static WordPress on a multisite has reached a whole new level.
Queue System
We did not simply add some buttons and additional settings- we’ve implemented an entire queue system specifically for multisite environments now.
It will ensure that we never overwrite currently running jobs.
If we detect an export currently running, we queue the next export you start, allowing you to run large multisite networks with Simply Static efficiently!
Parallel Execution
We also considered large enterprise setups with the new implementation. While disabled by default (to avoid resource issues on default servers), we now also support full parallelization of exports inside a multisite environment.
You can disable the queue system with this filter:
add_filter( ‘ss_multisite_queue_enabled’, ‘__return_false’ );With this in place, we will run exports in parallel, allowing you to run multiple exports of different subsites simultaneously.
This does require some fine-tuning of your server environment, as the number of jobs that can be run in parallel depends on the number of pm_children (child processes handled by your webserver) and is usually limited by the number of PHP workers available in your setup.
If you want to go really far with this (like running a static WP hosting service), you also want to ensure that you configure your MySQL instance accordingly to allow parallel processing as well.
Simply Static Studio Implementation
We will also offer this optimized setup for Simply Static Studio by the end of the year. You will be able to set up multisites right away in the dashboard, and we will also assist with parallelization for our enterprise customers.
Programmatic SEO
In the age of AI, content production is more important than ever, and programmatic SEO is an excellent way to tackle long-tail keywords for various use cases in an automated manner.
Think about location pages, for example – let’s say you are a lawyer and you want to rank not only for your major city, but all the smaller towns around it – with programmatic SEO, you can easily create dedicated landing pages for each city combination and increase your exposure without spending thousands of hours on content.
SEO Generator
We launched an official integration with SEO Generator.
Setting up the plugin couldn’t be easier, and you also get a great example as a starting point after the first installation:
If you are new to the plugin, check out their documentation and introduction video, and you will be up and running in no time.
Why not WPAllImport?
Good question! There is one thing that makes all the difference: SEO Generator works based on the permalink API of WordPress.
This means it does not fill up your entire database with posts and pages for each combination; instead, they get generated on the fly.
This keeps your database clean, and you can still leverage pSEO for your own business.
The Simply Static Integration
Our integration works automatically once we detect that SEO Generator is enabled on your website; no configuration is needed.
We implemented a custom crawler into Simply Static, which parses the XML sitemaps generated by SEO Generator and batches them for static conversion – no slowdown of your backend and no manual inclusion of the URLs needed:
Other notable changes:
- We added a DIVI integration
- We added a dedicated Beaver Builder crawler
