There are lots of WordPress maintenance services [1] out there, but they're quite expensive. We remove the maintenance/upgrade problem altogether staticizing your WordPress sites and putting them on a CDN. The real WordPress installation lives on a separate domain and only runs when an editor needs to make some changes to the content. And it's totally seamless for visitors and your editors.<p>[1]: <a href="https://underconstructionpage.com/wordpress-maintenance-services/" rel="nofollow">https://underconstructionpage.com/wordpress-maintenance-serv...</a>
fascinating - can you still use the backend wp-admin? I've experimented with generating static HTML files with WordPress in the past, but the code has always came out a tad sloppy. This looks really cool, I might be interested in a trial.<p>edit: nevermind, found this:<p><a href="https://www.hardypress.com/how-it-works/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hardypress.com/how-it-works/</a><p>again, really fascinating. has it been shown to reduce load times? Can I still minify my own CSS and JS, and "combine external resources?"<p>is their a public facing demo available?
I wonder if it could really work as advertized... how many problems could be found making a static website, even on a medium size WP? And what about dynamic content such as comments, search, filters or other specific plugins?
Having supported (from an infra/ops point of view) several places that insisted on using Wordpress, I don't understand why Varnish in front of <choose your web server[1]> isn't the standard 'recommended' way of hosting it.<p>1: it isn't going to matter. When the WP PHP is doing 30 different SQL queries just to load the front page of the site, your web server is no longer the bottleneck, even if it's Pre-Fork Apache with mod_php.
This is a great idea. WordPress had a fantastic ecosystem and frankly a hell of a lot easier to use than Jekyll and friends. But it's security vulnerabilities are it's downfall do this is a nice solution.<p>Another cool service you could offer would be a "CloudFlare" type thing over and existing WP site, where you cache all the content.