Title: Staatic – Static Site Generator for WordPress Author: Team Staatic Published: June 18, 2021 Last modified: May 26, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/staatic/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=2550278) ![](https://ps.w.org/staatic/assets/icon.svg?rev=2550278) # Staatic – Static Site Generator for WordPress By [Team Staatic](https://profiles.wordpress.org/staatic/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/staatic.1.12.4.zip) [Live Preview](https://wordpress.org/plugins/staatic/?preview=1) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/staatic/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/staatic/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/staatic/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/staatic/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/staatic/) ## Description Staatic turns WordPress into a practical static site generator. Keep editing posts, pages, menus, media, and settings in WordPress, then publish a static copy made of HTML, images, CSS, JavaScript, and other assets. The public site can be served without WordPress, PHP, or a database in the visitor request path. That can improve performance, reduce origin load, and shrink the public attack surface while preserving the familiar WordPress editing workflow. This is especially useful for a private-origin, public-static setup: WordPress remains available for editors and publication work, while visitors receive prebuilt files from your chosen hosting target. Staatic includes the publication workflow and deployment methods needed to run a self-hosted static WordPress site. Features of Staatic include: * Crawls your WordPress site and builds a static publication from the pages and assets it discovers. * Publishes from WordPress Admin, with publication status, logs, resource details, and downloadable output. * Deploys to Local Directory, Amazon S3 or S3-compatible storage, GitHub, Netlify, SFTP, or a zip archive. * Supports redirects, custom 404 pages, additional URLs and paths, exclude rules, and HTTP headers. * Includes a WP-CLI command for command-line publication workflows. * Works with WordPress Multisite, WPML, and HTTP Basic Auth protected WordPress origins. * Helps separate the public site from WordPress admin, plugin runtime, and database- backed page generation. * Provides integration hooks and compatibility improvements for common WordPress setups. Staatic Premium and Staatic Cloud add features such as forms integration, search integration, scheduled publications, change-based publications, and managed static WordPress hosting. The Community edition remains suitable when you want to generate and deploy a static version of a WordPress site yourself. ### Staatic Premium Staatic Premium supports ongoing development and adds functionality for teams that need more than the Community edition. Premium features include forms integration, search integration, scheduled publications, change-based publications, additional automation, and Staatic Cloud deployment options. For more information, visit [Staatic](https://staatic.com/wordpress/). ## Screenshots * [[ * Use WordPress as your authoring environment, then publish a static version of the site when you are ready. * [[ * Monitor running publications and review past publication details, resources, and logs. * [[ * Configure build, deployment, and advanced publication settings for your site. ## Installation Installing Staatic is simple! ### Install from within WordPress 1. Visit the plugins page within your WordPress Admin dashboard and select ‘Add New’; 2. Search for ‘Staatic’; 3. Activate ‘Staatic’ from your Plugins page; 4. Go to ‘After activation’ below. ### Install manually 1. Upload the ‘staatic’ folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory; 2. Activate the ‘Staatic’ plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress; 3. Go to ‘After activation’ below. ### After activation 1. Click on the ‘Staatic’ menu item on the left side navigation menu; 2. On the settings page, provide the relevant Build & Deployment settings; 3. Start publishing to your static site! ## FAQ ### How will Staatic improve the performance of my site? Staatic crawls your WordPress site like a visitor, starting from the site’s front page or configured Custom Origin URL, plus any additional URLs or paths you provide. It captures the generated HTML and related assets, then stores them as a static publication. When that publication is deployed, visitors receive prebuilt files instead of waiting for WordPress, PHP, plugins, and the database to build each page on demand. This usually improves time to first byte, reduces server load, and gives you a simpler public delivery path. ### Why not use a caching plugin? Caching plugins can be useful, but the public request still usually reaches WordPress infrastructure. Cache misses, cache purges, plugin behavior, and origin capacity can still affect visitors. Staatic changes the architecture: the public site is a deployed set of static files. You can host those files on your own server, object storage, a static hosting provider, or a CDN-backed setup, depending on the deployment method you choose. ### Will the appearance of my site change? No, it should not. Staatic publishes the output that WordPress already renders for visitors. If the static version differs, the cause is usually frontend behavior that depends on server-side requests, invalid HTML, blocked assets, authentication, or plugin/ theme output that behaves differently while being crawled. The publication resources and logs can help identify what was captured and what failed. ### How will Staatic improve the security of my site? Static delivery reduces the amount of WordPress infrastructure exposed to public visitors. Your public site can be served as files, while WordPress remains the authoring environment behind the publication workflow. In a private-origin, public-static setup, visitors do not hit `wp-login.php`, plugin PHP code, or database-backed page generation on the public site. This reduces the blast radius of many common WordPress risks, including plugin runtime vulnerabilities, automated login probing, and server-side behavior that only exists while WordPress is serving each request. You still need to maintain your WordPress origin, themes, plugins, accounts, and deployment credentials. The main security benefit is architectural: fewer dynamic systems are involved in serving anonymous public traffic. ### Is Staatic compatible with all plugins? Not entirely. Static sites do not run WordPress, PHP, or database queries for each visitor request. Plugins that depend on server-side processing on the public site may need changes or alternatives. Common examples include native comments, some search implementations, forms that post back to WordPress, eCommerce flows, membership areas, and plugins that fetch personalized server-side data. For forms and search, Staatic Premium provides ready-made integrations. For other dynamic features, use a static-compatible service, client-side integration, or a hybrid architecture where needed. ### Will Staatic function on shared or heavily restricted servers? Staatic is designed to work on typical WordPress hosting, including many shared hosting environments. The server must be able to write to the configured work directory and make HTTP requests to the WordPress site being published. Large sites, slow origins, strict firewalls, disabled loopback requests, or very limited PHP execution time can require tuning. The Site Health checks, publication logs, and advanced settings are the best starting points if a publication does not start or takes too long. ### Where can I get help? If you have any questions or issues, please start with the [documentation](https://staatic.com/wordpress/documentation/) and [FAQ](https://staatic.com/wordpress/faq/). If you cannot find an answer there, feel free to open a topic on our [Support Forums](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/staatic/). For commercial support, Staatic Premium, or Staatic Cloud questions, you can also [contact us](https://staatic.com/wordpress/contact/). ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/92d9541e1a98bc6e4abd2df92689a3726d2938def37f3df88ffb1d76f6829c59? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Hit and miss](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hit-and-miss-11/)󠁿 [Bike Gremlin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bikegremlin/) March 23, 2026 On one site it work, on other it doesn’t. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/409fc76c9e6fceed2f0333060f6ff38814eb4372cfdb61e2607e1cfc69be6bf9? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Works well, great support too.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-well-great-support-too/)󠁿 [mikeatbds](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mikeatbds/) February 19, 2026 I tried a few other Static Site Generators, but this one seemed to work the best for me. And many thanks to the support team for their help ironing out a few issues we did have. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/147cc99012716f6a6a348ba7fef35143e17316d01d18fed250e7de81d20fe52a? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[The only static exporter that works](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-only-static-exporter-that-works/)󠁿 [parismolver](https://profiles.wordpress.org/parismolver/) February 7, 2026 This is 5/5 and then some! I tried simply static and it would take 3 times longer, provide no status on progress, and worst of all, it wouldn’t export all the posts or pages. I tried other generators and they either wouldn’t output the custom post type which is part of my theme, or simply wouldn’t work like WP2static. I spent about 10 hours trying to get this export working. I made minimal changes with this plugin to the settings, when things didn’t work the first time I could see what wasn’t working (404’s in my site) just by reading the logs, correcting it, and then uploading the 2nd run through to my host.This was also much faster, the only feature I would like to see would be page caching so that it doesn’t have to rescan because when i need to do small edits on pages without no new pages made, i would like to skip this step as it takes about 10 minutes for my site. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c27294e028eef92ad72a7d5ba276a794436c01054217d3f8a151ed140e4f27a8? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Waste of time](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/waste-of-time-368/)󠁿 [theskuj](https://profiles.wordpress.org/theskuj/) October 18, 2025 1 reply I tried this plugin because it has S3 functionality. Unfortunately hours of troubleshooting with both ChatGPT and Deepseek did not result in a single working export of my basic website. The URLs were broken 100% of the time, ignoring the critical settings specified. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e2d14eb7945a3e4c111cb60b2de44ac959a89b136b7912ab919b1379b4639e8e? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Best WP Static Site Generator](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-wp-static-site-generator/)󠁿 [giampiero](https://profiles.wordpress.org/giampiero/) October 26, 2024 1 reply This plugin is awesome. The seamless integration with Netlify, GitHub and S3 is really what makes it superior to plugins in the same category. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a470c8fb7955a196b3a5c3144c48ae55ddf820480a275f093a24dee12fe652a7? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Best WordPress Static Site Generator](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-wordpress-static-site-generator/)󠁿 [hatisenang](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hatisenang/) October 5, 2024 1 reply I’ve been trying to convert my sites to static HTML for a while now and after trying many different plugins and other techniques. I have to say, this is the best and easiest way to convert a WordPress site to static HTML.I love that this plugin is being actively maintained so here are is a feature suggestion I think would make Staatic even better: Incremental pushes to GitHub. [ Read all 21 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/staatic/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Staatic – Static Site Generator for WordPress” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Team Staatic ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/staatic/) “Staatic – Static Site Generator for WordPress” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/staatic/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Staatic – Static Site Generator for WordPress” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/staatic) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/staatic/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/staatic/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/staatic/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/staatic/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.12.4 Release date: May 26th, 2026. **Bug Fixes** * Fixes the publication resources Download button failing with an expired link error. #### 1.12.3 Release date: May 26th, 2026. **Bug Fixes** * Fixes partial publications incorrectly deleting canonical page output when slash and non-slash URL variants are merged. * Fixes SFTP deployments ignoring the configured port and always using the default port. * Fixes compatibility issues on fresh installations where unset default settings could trigger errors. * Fixes security hardening for admin actions and exports. * Fixes protocol-relative external URLs being rewritten to HTTP. #### 1.12.2 Release date: April 14th, 2026. **Bug Fixes** * Fixes fatal errors in capability migrations when expected WordPress roles are unavailable. #### 1.12.1 Release date: January 12th, 2026. **Bug Fixes** * Fixes debug mode issue in API factory. #### 1.12.0 Release date: September 12th, 2025. **Features** * Adds `staatic_should_transform_url` filter for independent URL transformation control. **Bug Fixes** * Fixes SVG data URL fragment references being incorrectly extracted. * Fixes Html5DomParser compatibility with extended URL context. * Fixes URL extraction overlap bug when extended URL context is enabled. * Fixes malformed URL rewriting when extended context captures partial protocols. #### Earlier releases For the changelog of earlier releases, please refer to [the changelog on staatic.com](https://staatic.com/wordpress/changelog/). ## Meta * Version **1.12.4** * Last updated **2 days ago** * Active installations **2,000+** * WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.0** * PHP version ** 7.1 or higher ** * Languages * [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/staatic/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/staatic/), and [Japanese](https://ja.wordpress.org/plugins/staatic/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/staatic) * Tags * [performance](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/performance/)[security](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security/) [seo](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/)[speed](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/speed/) [static](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/static/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/staatic/advanced/) ## Ratings 4.4 out of 5 stars. * [ 17 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/staatic/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/staatic/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 1 3-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/staatic/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 1 2-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/staatic/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 2 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/staatic/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/staatic/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/staatic/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Team Staatic ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/staatic/) ## Support Got something to say? 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