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Dev tools · June 24, 2021

Simply Static

The static site generator for WordPress

Simply Static launched on June 24, 2021 with 73 votes, #1,004 of 3,650 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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What it does

Create a static website directly from WordPress 🚀 ✅ GitHub Integration ✅ Deploy to GitHub/Cloudflare Pages, AWS, Spaces, Netlify ✅ Integrated static search ✅ Supports forms with Contact Form 7 and Gravity Forms ✅ integrated comments support

Make WordPress faster, safer, and easier to maintain. Simply Static converts WordPress to static HTML, so you keep the CMS workflow while publishing a secure, high-performance static site.

Keep the WordPress editor your team already knows. Start with our Static Site Generator, or manage the entire Static WordPress workflow with Static Studio. I was having many issues with malware, but it ultimately led me to this static solution for WordPress sites, and I’m enjoying this new approach to developing WordPress quickly and securely. […] Supporting static sites is a lighter lift on the agency site, and the customer wins on better security and typically better performance […]. Traditional WordPress sites are flexible, but they often come with the same recurring problems. Plugin vulnerabilities, brute-force attacks, exposed login pages, database access, outdated themes, and…from simplystatic.com

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