Static Snap

Static Snap is a powerful WordPress plugin that transforms your dynamic WordPress site into a static website, enabling seamless integration and deployment across various hosting services.

Advantages of Using Static Snap

1. 🛡️ Enhanced Security: By converting dynamic WordPress sites to static formats, Static Snap minimizes security risks associated with dynamic content and databases, significantly reducing susceptibility to hacking and malware attacks.

2. ⚡ Increased Speed and Performance: Static sites generated by Static Snap load faster than dynamic sites since they are served directly from a CDN, eliminating server-side processing. This results in quicker access times, enhancing user experience and engagement.

3. 💵 Reduced Hosting Costs: Static Snap allows the use of less resource-intensive hosting solutions, which can be cheaper or even free, significantly lowering overall website maintenance costs.

4. 🔧 Simplified Maintenance: Users can manage their site content via WordPress while Static Snap serves a static version, blending ease of management with enhanced stability and reliability.

5. 📈 SEO Benefits: With faster load times and increased reliability, static sites often rank better in search engine results. Static Snap maintains WordPress's SEO capabilities while improving site performance.

6. ⬆️ Scalability and Reliability: Static Snap ensures that static sites are more scalable and reliable under high traffic conditions, maintaining uptime and performance during peak times.

7. 🔍 Preserved Functionality: Essential dynamic features, such as search and form capabilities, are retained in the static version of the site, ensuring no functional compromise with Static Snap.

8. 🔁 Automated Backups to GitHub: Static Snap automatically pushes the static site to a connected GitHub account, providing robust version control and secure backups. This facilitates easy tracking of changes and reverting to previous versions.

9. 🌳 Eco-friendly Hosting: By reducing server resource needs, Static Snap supports more sustainable hosting, aligning with eco-friendly practices.

10. 📋 Content Management Efficiency: Users benefit from the familiar WordPress interface for content management while enjoying the performance advantages of a static site.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Contributing
• License

Installation

Here's a guide on how to Getting Started with Static Snap.

Contributing

Contributions to the Static Snap plugin are welcome!

Prerequisites

At Static Snap, we make use of a specific toolset to develop our code. Please ensure you have the following tools installed before contributing:

• Composer
• Yarn

Getting Started

After installing the tools mentioned above, you can use the following steps to acquire a development version of Static Snap.

Within your WordPress installation, navigate to wp-content/plugins and run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/static-snap/static-snap.git
cd static-snap

To install all the necessary dependencies, run the following commands:

composer install
yarn
yarn start

License

Static Snap is licensed under the GPL v3 License. See the LICENSE file for more details.