Not working at all

I’m experiencing the same thing. Nothing seems to be happening.
PHP 7.4 on a Dreamhost shared server
WP 6.0
SimplyStatic 2.1.5.8

The same version of the plugin works great on my dev machine at home. I wonder if the process is timing out on the Dreamhost server. There is no way to know, as there is no notice in the UI and there doesn’t seem to be any log. Everything looks good on the Diagnostics page.

I ssh’d to the server and looked in the plugin’s static-files directory, which is where I believe the temp files should be written. It is empty.

I also tried enabling Debug Mode, and there is no debug.txt file getting created in the plugin’s directory.

I am trying to get a look at the wp_simply_static_pages table in the database, but right now phpMyAdmin is timing out on Dreamhost. If that gets fixed, I’ll post an update.

Thanks @therealmiked. I spent couple of hours and got nowhere. If you find a solution, please do share. Seems the plugin is no longer support though.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by Terry J.

Roger that, @texasbiz. I don’t know how much time I’m going to have for trying to make this plugin work. If I can’t make it work fairly quickly, I’ll probably just look for a different solution. But I will happily report back if I find anything.

@texasbiz, I gave up. As my fallback, I began using WP-Optimize, which generates static html files and serves them in place of calling PHP each time. You don’t get the advantage of improved security that you would with a pure static site, but you do get improved performance.

In case you use the WP REST API, WP-Optimize does not cache API responses, but I found another plugin which does: WP REST Cache. Between these two plugins, I am seeing enough performance improvements to give up on trying to generate a pure static site for now.

If it’s vitally important that you have a pure static site, you might consider some paid services like HardyPress or Strattic.

@therealmiked Yea, I gave up too.

Thank you for all info, much appreciated.

I use WP-Optimize on a couple of sites but never even looked at the static html files option. Going to look into it:)

I mainly wanted the Simply Static plugin for local use to export html files. Tried Simply Static on live site and local, no go would not work at all.

Thanks again for your input.