UPDATE: The plugin has now been released, please find it here:
WordPress HTML Static Plugin
I have started working on my wp-static-posts plug-in for WordPress.
For those who have been following my work on portable WordPress development and “enabling” PHP and WordPress support on Apple’s MobileMe service, this may be of interest to you.
As you may have inferred from previous posts, I’ve been having to manually scrape my WordPress files into static html files and then manually transfer them to my MobileMe hosting.
Until now! (or soon…)
With the WordPress Static Posts (wp-static-posts) plug-in, I’m enabling automatic html file generation and uploading of an optimized WordPress site.
It basically generates a list of all Permalinks in friendly .html format and then captures them as static html files using one of several scripting methods (still deciding which is best).
The WebDAV uploading for MobileMe may require extra libraries for PHP, but for all other users, you can enter your ftp details into the plug-in’s admin page to instantly upload your site almost anywhere.
Current testing has been on the Mac side and I will be testing in the Windows environment shortly. There shouldn’t be a need for any changes cross-platform, but that may depend on which scripting method I choose for the html output routine.
It is still in an unstable stage, however, if you like to live on the edge, please e-mail me for beta testing opportunities.
