Anindya Sundar Mandal

Statixly converts your WordPress site into a fully static HTML website — eliminating PHP, databases, and server-side dependencies from your production host. The result: faster load times, a reduced attack surface, and the freedom to deploy on any web server or CDN.
⚡ Benefits: Why Statixly?
<ul>
<li>🚀 Faster page loads: Static websites load 3 to 5 times faster than WordPress sites by serving pre-rendered HTML without PHP execution or database queries.</li>
<li>🔒 Reduced attack surface: Static sites have no login page, database connection, or server-side code on your production host. This eliminates primary attack vectors such as SQL injection and brute-force attacks.</li>
<li>🌍 Deploy anywhere: Host on Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages, AWS S3, or any standard web server. No PHP, MySQL, or WordPress dependency is required in production.</li>
<li>💰 Lower hosting costs: Static files can be served from free or low-cost CDN-based hosts instead of a PHP-capable server. Managed WordPress hosting typically costs $25 to $100 or more per month, while static hosting is often free or very affordable on platforms like Cloudflare Pages or Netlify, which offer unmetered bandwidth on their free tiers.</li>
<li>🛠️ Zero production maintenance: Your live site is pure HTML. With no WordPress running in production, there are no security patches, plugin updates, or server-side dependencies to manage on your public host.</li>
<li>🎛️ Live export control: Start, pause, resume, or abort the export from the admin screen and monitor progress in real time.</li>
<li>📦 One-click download: The entire static site is packaged as a ZIP file, ready for extraction and upload.</li>
<li>🔄 Auto-resume on interruption: If internet connectivity drops during export, the job resumes automatically once the connection is restored.</li>
</ul>
🔍 SEO Benefits
<ul>
<li>📊 Better Core Web Vitals scores: Static HTML loads faster, directly improving Time to First Byte (TTFB) and Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), which are metrics Google uses as ranking signals.</li>
<li>🤖 Improved crawl efficiency: Search engine bots fetch plain HTML instantly, with no server-side rendering delay. This signals high crawl health and allows engines to index content more effectively.</li>
<li>⏱️ Higher uptime reliability: Static files served from a CDN experience near-zero downtime, helping avoid Google ranking penalties for frequently unreachable URLs.</li>
<li>🧹 No WordPress footprint in production: Common WordPress paths such as /wp-admin and /wp-login.php are removed from the live site, reducing spam crawling and preserving crawl budget.</li>
</ul>
The admin screen provides the following capabilities:
<ul>
<li>Start a static export job</li>
<li>Monitor live export status in real time</li>
<li>Pause, resume, or abort the export</li>
<li>Download the generated static site as a ZIP file</li>
<li>Download or delete export logs</li>
<li>Delete temporary export directories</li>
</ul>
Statixly systematically crawls website URLs, renders content, rewrites links for static output, and packages the results for deployment.
<h4>Typical workflow</h4>
<ol>
<li>First, build and set up your site as you normally do in WordPress. Make sure all content and settings are finalized before exporting.</li>
<li>Next, open the Statixly admin screen and select the Generate/Export Static Site button to start the export process.</li>
<li>After the export finishes, download the generated ZIP file containing your static website.</li>
<li>Extract the files from the ZIP archive. Upload the extracted files to your chosen static hosting provider. For example, use your website’s document root on a web hosting server, Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages, AWS S3, etc.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Important Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>If the current WordPress website is on example.com and you want to make the static website available on example.com as well, move the WordPress website to a subdomain and protect it with HTTP Basic Auth, or move it to your localhost computer using a backup and migration plugin such as Duplicator.</li>
<li>Permalink structure must not be set to Plain.</li>
<li>Keep the Statixly export tab open while export is running.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Not for e-commerce, etc.</h4>
Statixly will not work on any WordPress website that generates content dynamically based on user interaction, e.g., an e-commerce or subscription-based website.
Contact forms will not work. The contact form requires immediate backend processing upon submission by the user. However, this is on our roadmap.
<h4>HTTP Basic Authentication</h4>
If your WordPress install is protected with HTTP Basic Auth (for example, a staging or subdomain install), enter your credentials under Statixly → Settings → Security so Statixly can authenticate during export.
Credentials are encrypted before storage and never exposed in logs or diagnostics output.
<h4>Advanced Opt-In Options</h4>
Statixly includes two optional safety/compatibility flags, both disabled by default and configurable from the Statixly → Settings → General screen.
<ul>
<li>
Allow insecure local HTTP fetch 
Enable this only for expired, invalid, or self-signed certificate environments where same-site HTTPS fetches fail TLS verification. This turns off SSL verification only for local same-site fetches.
</li>
<li>
Prefer temporary storage above document root 
Enable this only if you explicitly want Statixly working directories outside <code>wp_upload_dir()</code>. By default, Statixly uses WordPress uploads paths. Please note that this option works only if the intended directory is readable and writable by the web server user.
</li>
</ul>
Both flags can also be set directly in the options table if preferred.
<h4>Need Help?</h4>
If you face any issues after installing the Statixly plugin, please open a support ticket with detailed information, and we will be happy to fix the issue.

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