• This is something that has never arisen for me before, and which a couple of google searches doesn’t bring up anything in particular, but which could be of general interest for the future.

    Amongst a range of WP blogs we run is a particular blog used by the students of a particular course in fine art. Sin ce this course runs every year with different students, we create a new blog every year – we’re about to put the third one up for next academic year.

    At this point the course teacher has asked if we can take the 2009 version down, but still leave it accessible to her, for future assessment purposes.

    This raises a problem.

    I could of course simply archive up the file space occupied by the blog (with the large number of uploaded images), along with an SQL dump of the database, and burn a DVD (etc) of that. However this particular customer is (not surprisingly) a lecturer in fine art: while she can navigate the blog as it stands, she does not have the technical skills to dig through an archive to find particular entries again. Putting a local version on her PC would mean having to put up a web server, database and PHP on her machine, which frankly isn’t gonig to happen either. Since it’s WP, there is no “raw HTML” to burn onto a disk.

    What would be nice would be a way to permanantly archive the blog off as a “read only” blog which could then be put on a disk etc for future reference. I have been unable to find anything which fits the bill, though it’s an interesting idea.

    Does anyone have any suggestions?
    Thanks in Adv.

    -Andy Holyer, UAL.

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