generating static HTML pages from WP posts

If you absolutely don’t need a .html extension (and there’s really no need for it) then Supercache will do the job as it has a “preload” function that will create cached versions of all your posts and periodically reload them. The files aren’t written to the /daze directory, they’d go into /daze/wp-content/cache/supercache/hostname/ and they’re served by mod_rewrite rules or PHP, whichever you prefer.

If you’re worried about links going stale then you can include the .html extension in your permalink but I don’t think it’ll work too well with the way Supercache caches files. Otherwise you can redirect index.html -> / requests with a small chunk of mod_rewrite magic.

Thanks for the swift reply here! Reading what you wrote donnacha, it doesn’t sound like “output static HTML into my existing archives” so I think I’ll have to keep looking.

“.html” I’d like to keep for consistency, and, well, because I want to have flat .html files in my existing directories! Hopefully I can wrestle WordPress to output flat HTML in 2010 without too much struggle.

It should be possible but yours is an edge case unfortunately. If you wanted, you could keep your existing archive and “start afresh” with WordPress for new posts. Don’t get hung up over this one feature as WordPress is so rich and flexible that you’d be missing out if you were to abandon it.

I need to keep my archives of all my posts in static html files. Unfortunately, I am quite “hung up” on this feature ??

I could use Movable Type to readily generated static HTML pages, but MT has no iOS editor and there’s much more community development happening for WordPress.

Hopefully there’s some ready way to make this happen! I’m posting here in the forums to see what I can learn. A friend suggested I edit wp-cache-phase2.php but I haven’t figured that out yet.

Here’s a more detailed guide to using wget. However useful, for now I’m still searching for the direct static html output solution within WordPress 3.0+ & it’s plugins!

Look at the Really Static plugin, which may do exactly what you need:

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/really-static/

I considered it before deciding to use Movable Type for my personal site, precisely because of its static-file publishing:

https://www.penmachine.com/2010/05/movable-type-static-files-really-work

Penmachine, I looked at your MT site (& read carefully as time permits) but didn’t see further mention of WP’s really-static plugin.

Can you say why that didn’t keep you with WP? I would rather stay with WP even if capable of MT’s nerd factor.