Publish pages/posts as HTML?

Question

We're looking to use a plugin or custom setup for authors to create pages or posts and publish them as single HTML files. The file could be saved on the server in a specific directory or have a download button from within the editor.

So far we have found 2 plugins that almost achieve this function:

WP Static Output

Really Static

Both work fairly similar but need admin access to generate. They also create the files in the following fashion:

dir-on-server/page-title/index.html

where I would need

dir-on-server/page-title/page-title.html

Any thoughts on this? Has anyone done something similar? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

wget --mirror as part of a cron job may do what you need.

The lack of dynamic content will give the following issues:

• comment support (which I delegate to disqus)
• search support (which can be delegated to Google site search, though I haven't implemented that myself)
• delete of posts no longer work
• your permalinks should not use the ?postid= form.