Migrating Wordpress to Static

Migrating Wordpress to Static

The following command can mirror a whole website including a wordpress into a static html site locally.

# Mirror website to a static copy for local browsing.
# This means all links will be changed to point to the local files.
# Note --html-extension will convert any CGI, ASP or PHP generated files to HTML (or anything else not .html).

wget --mirror -w 2 -p --html-extension --convert-links -P <dir> http://www.yourdomain.com

But this will get a static site with absolute links. To get a site that works as relative links for wordpress, use this plugin in first:

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L Ma (2015). 'Migrating Wordpress to Static', Datumorphism, 12 April. Available at: https://datumorphism.leima.is/til/programming/migrating-wordpress-to-static-site/.