patrickposner

@madtownlems I’ve added a filter now to make that customisable: https://github.com/Simply-Static/simply-static/commit/e193819b6cafa86d51d8718c25ee57918bbc77fa

We also have a slight refactoring planned for the (pro) integration of MU – instead of having a separate site to pull the data from, we have a more template-based solution.

This would ensure we are not facing any memory-related issues with large networks, while still offering the ability to have multiple “templates” for easy imports.

This doesn’t have a release date yet, but I think the new filter will cover for a while!

Hey @korndev,

please give this another try with the (just released) 3.5.1.1 version.

Hey @caioschiavo,

thanks for reaching out – please come to the pro support via our website – we are not allowed here to talk about the pro version – thanks!

@madtownlems happy to add that in the next update!

You can also disable that in Simply Static -> Settings -> Integrations -> Admin Bar (Core), btw!

@madtownlems my bad, there is a bug in how we construct the path in the previous code snippet – here is updated (working) one:

add_filter( 'ss_zip_filename', function( $zip_filename, $archive_dir, $options ) {
	// Get site name
	$site_name = get_bloginfo( 'name' );
	if ( ! $site_name ) {
		$site_name = 'Site';
	}

	// Transliterate accents and create a URL-safe slug with dashes
	// This preserves ASCII letters/numbers and replaces spaces with dashes
	$site_name = remove_accents( $site_name );
	$site_name = sanitize_title_with_dashes( $site_name ); // lower-case, dash-separated

	// Fallback if it ends up empty (e.g., only symbols/emojis)
	if ( '' === $site_name ) {
		$site_name = 'site';
	}

	// Multisite-aware blog/site ID (on single site this is typically 1)
	$blog_id = function_exists( 'get_current_blog_id' ) ? (int) get_current_blog_id() : 1;

	// Use WordPress timezone for date/time
	$ts   = current_time( 'timestamp' );
	$date = date_i18n( 'Y-m-d', $ts );

	// Build a safe basename (no parentheses)
	$basename = sprintf(
		'simply-static-%s-%d-%s-%d.zip',
		$site_name,
		$blog_id,
		$date,
		$ts
	);

	// Return the full path inside the provided archive directory
	$zip_filename = trailingslashit( wp_normalize_path( $archive_dir ) ) . $basename;

	return $zip_filename;
}, 10, 3 );

@madtownlems,

pretty close to that, haha!

Your feature request is implemented now:

You can enable clearing the temporary directory with this filter now:

add_filter('ss_clear_temp_dir_on_wrapup', '__return_true');

There is a new button in Simply Static -> Settings -> Debugging -> Temporary Directory to one-click clear the temporary directory for the current site.

We extended our uninstall.php file now to remove the entire simply-static directory in wp-content/uploads on uninstalling the plugin for better cleanup.

@madtownlems you can (with 3.5.1) change the filename of the ZIP file with the following filter:

add_filter( 'ss_zip_filename', function( $zip_filename, $archive_dir, $options ) {
    // Get site name and turn it into a nice dash-separated label while preserving case
    $site_name = get_bloginfo( 'name' );
    if ( ! $site_name ) {
        $site_name = 'Site';
    }

    // Replace whitespace/underscores with dashes
    $site_name = preg_replace( '/[\s_]+/', '-', $site_name );
    // Remove anything that isn't a letter, number, or dash
    $site_name = preg_replace( '/[^A-Za-z0-9\-]/', '', $site_name );
    // Collapse multiple dashes
    $site_name = preg_replace( '/-+/', '-', $site_name );
    // Trim leading/trailing dashes
    $site_name = trim( $site_name, '-' );

    // Multisite-aware blog/site ID (on single site this is typically 1)
    $blog_id = function_exists( 'get_current_blog_id' ) ? (int) get_current_blog_id() : 1;

    // Use WordPress timezone for date/time
    $ts   = current_time( 'timestamp' );
    $date = date_i18n( 'Y-m-d', $ts );

    // Build the filename
    $zip_filename = sprintf(
        'simply-static-%s-ID(%d)-%s-(%d).zip',
        $site_name,
        $blog_id,
        $date,
        $ts
    );

    return $zip_filename;
}, 10, 3 );

Hey @madtownlems,

this should be working just fine now with 3.5.1!

The primary reason why this failed was that we still used PCLZip for this task (which is shipped with WordPress and does not require libzip as an extension).

PCLZip is capped at 4GB (for some reason); anything beyond that will cause a corrupted file. I assume they never considered these file sizes when implementing the library so many years ago.

However, I have now added support for ZipArchive as well. As long as the extension is available, we will utilize ZipArchive, enabling the seamless export of larger sites without any issues.

Cheers,
Patrick