Hi I have a small problem. I have a small wordpress site in which I've added posts few months ago. Not the site is not being updated anymore but I still get loads of traffic. So I would like to somehow convert my wordpress site into a static site with no CMS behind it and no database needed for it to run. There are no pools or anything like that so really no database should be needed... any suggestions on how I could do this? Thank you!
I agree... it would be simple to change the content to static pages within Wordpress. I would say leave it because it would be super simple to add more content if you choose to in the future.
what good would that do guys? I don't want to change the appearance of the site. Posts will still be on the home page. I just don't want them to be called from the databse but to be plain html files addlinkurl, i'll try that... but was hoping to find a plugin or something that would do that...
Changing to a static home page would not change the appearance of the site. If you don't want a database, then you can't use a wordpress install and hence there is no plugin. I really don't understand why you can't have a database though.
I don't want to use a wordpress install... I want to change http://www.321games.net/ to a static html page. Like a mirror of the current page And what do you mean I wont change the look? It will show a "page" from wordpress pages on a homepage... Now it shows posts, so it would be different...
I'd go with addlinkurl's suggestion, or anything similiar where you just use a software that can grab content from the Web (GetLeft would be another choice). They'll be grabbed as static HTML, then you can re-upload everything up again.
No it wouldn't. Either you want to use what you have or you don't. If you remove the database and wordpress then you can say goodbye to template since it only runs on Wordpress. You would have to upload the content on to a new platform or template...basically you would have to rebuild it. You can't strip it and still expect it to work. It won't. The minute you delete the database or the Worpdress install, you site will go blank or get a 500 error. Backing up the database will do you no good, because you don't want to use a database so what would you download the back up to? Plug ins work on wordpress which operates by using a database, so there is no plug in to remove the database, yet still works. How can you use the platform to delete the platform ? Makes no sense. what you are saying is "I don't want to use Wordpress, isn't there something in Wordpress that will help me accomplish this?" What is the big deal about leaving the site as is ? Even a $10 a month hosting account can handle a few databases running.
this thread is brutal...goto your homepage, do a view source, copy the text to a file and call it index.php (or index.html) and upload the file, done. Do this for each of your few pages and call it a day. Otherwise you might need to use a program to go crawl your site and copy pages.
That won't work. IF you just simply copy the code from the page source, it will contain the Wordpress files and included plug in files. If you try and use that as Index.html, how will it function if you delete those files and the database that runs them?
you are correct and I shouldnt have phrased it to be taken so literally. You will need to remove some of the scripting components added at the top if they are for backend plugins, but for many of the "frontend" scripts they should still be pointing to the relative location on the server and work just fine. However since the thread owner asked for static, any information it needed from the database for use n that specific page would have already been gathered server side and displayed i the content and therefore create a suitable, static replacement of the once dynamic page.
Hmnnn. I don't know. I don't think a 'copy and paste' will do anything but display a bunch of garbage. Even if you remove the plug in scripting, there is still other Worpdress components that will disappear the minute you kill the database. The 'front end scripts' are all on the database. Once you delete it, nothing will be retained on the root or the server.