In case anyone is interested, another plugin that does static version creation for WP is really-static. It is a little finicky to setup but seems to do the job well. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/really-static/

In my case I want my static server to get the files rather than my WP install sending them, so wget is a better solution for me.

Only problems I had were because I’m running OSX, but a few minor changes fixed it:

– change all occurances of “sed -r” to “sed -E”
– fix path to mysql

Audentes,

Sorry for the troubles. I would expect it would only take a half-hour or so for someone to run the script or commands to convert the WP install to static. They would need to make a copy of the database as well, if you wanted to save any of the plugin information. I’m out of the loop on how much to charge for contract work, so I can’t be much help there.

DESPERATE TO GO STATIC ASAP:

The WordPress built-in editor randomly wipes out perfectly good code that had worked for several days. Suddenly, all corrupted. (Alternating blue-white table cells, alignment, all gone! — and other things.)

I need to get out of WordPress. Is there any way to convert easily to a static site without losing all the stuff in my plugins?

My pages are mostly empty or draft, but I don’t want to lose my sidebar & menu, and my video page image grid.

Could you suggest HOW LONG it would take someone experienced to convert this to STATIC? And how much I should expect to pay for this – lowest end possible? I am very very limited in budget, which is why I was doing it all myself to start with. Thanks.