Is it possible to make a WordPress deployment read-only? For a website that won't be updated, I'd like to make it read-only/static, so the archive is there but nobody can post, so I don't have to deal with breaches and updates?
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Assuming you have shell access, or access to any Linux/Unix box, you could use wget to download the entire site to static html files:
wget --recursive --no-clobber --page-requisites --html-extension --domains domain.com http://domain.com
Then either upload or move these files to your web root (after backing up and removing your WP installation).
I imagine it's also possible to do this via some sort of proxy/cache setup, but I can't comment on the relative security of such an approach with any certainty.
answered Jul 8, 2014 at 23:14
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1Be aware that everything dynamic (comments, contact forms,...) will not work any more then.– kraftnerApr 23, 2018 at 9:04
Finally the solution I resorted to was Simply Static (a free plugin) – it generates a static copy of the website (including custom content).