Description
Statixly helps you create a static copy of your WordPress website, facilitating faster content delivery and reducing the security risks on production hosting.
The admin screen provides the following capabilities:
- Start a static export job
- Monitor live export status in real time
- Pause, resume, or abort the export
- Download the generated static site as a ZIP file
- Download or delete export logs
- Delete temporary export directories
Statixly systematically crawls website URLs, renders content, rewrites links for static output, and packages the results for deployment.
Typical workflow
- First, build and set up your site as you normally do in WordPress. Make sure all content and settings are finalized before exporting.
- Next, open the Statixly admin screen and select the Generate/Export Static Site button to start the export process.
- After the export finishes, download the generated ZIP file containing your static website.
- Extract the files from the ZIP archive. Upload the extracted files to your chosen static hosting provider. For example, use your website’s document root on a web hosting server, Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages, AWS S3, etc.
Important Requirements
- If the current WordPress website is on example.com and you want to make the static website available on example.com as well, move the WordPress website to a subdomain and protect it with HTTP Basic Auth, or move it to your localhost computer using a backup and migration plugin such as Duplicator.
- Permalink structure must not be set to Plain.
- Keep the Statixly export tab open while export is running.
Not for e-commerce, etc.
Statixly will not work on any WordPress website that generates content dynamically based on user interaction, e.g., an e-commerce or subscription-based website.
Contact forms will not work. The contact form requires immediate backend processing upon submission by the user. However, this is on our roadmap.
Advanced Opt-In Options
Statixly includes two optional safety/compatibility flags (both disabled by default):
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statixly_prefer_temp_storage_above_document_root
Set totrue(in the options table) only if you explicitly want Statixly working directories outsidewp_upload_dir(). By default, Statixly uses WordPress uploads paths. -
statixly_allow_insecure_local_http_fetch
Set totrue(in the options table) only for local/self-signed certificate environments where same-site HTTPS fetches fail TLS verification. This disables SSL verification for local same-site fetches.
Need Help?
If you face any issues after installing the Statixly plugin, please open a support ticket with detailed information, and we will be happy to fix the issue.
Installation
- Upload the plugin to the plugins folder (
wp-content/plugins/), or install it through the WordPress Plugins screen, click ‘Add Plugin’, and search with Statixly. - Click the ‘Activate’ button, or activate the plugin from the Installed Plugins screen.
- Open Statixly from the WordPress admin menu.
- Click the Generate/Export Static Site button and wait for completion.
- Download the ZIP and deploy the exported files to your chosen host.
FAQ
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Does this plugin replace my live WordPress site automatically?
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No. Statixly creates a static export for you to deploy manually.
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Why can I not start an export?
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Common reasons:
* Your permalink structure is set to Plain.
* File permissions prevent writing inside the uploads/temp directories.
* Another export job is currently active. -
Can I pause and continue later?
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Yes. Export jobs can be paused and resumed from the export screen.
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Can I download export diagnostics/logs?
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Yes. Logs can be downloaded using the Download Export Log button, and you can include system information using the ‘Include/Append system information’ checkbox.
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Contributors & Developers
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Changelog
1.0.2
- Fix: Uninstall flow now reliably loads required helper functions before cleanup.
- Improvement: Kept uninstall cleanup logic centralized by reusing existing helper APIs instead of duplicating cleanup behavior.
1.0.1
- Renamed plugin to Statixly.
- Security: Added path traversal detection to reject unsafe URLs during export.
- Security: Blocked export of PHP and other server-side executable files.
- Security: Added symlink escape prevention during log file and directory deletion.
- Security: Refactored SSL verification handling for local HTTP fetches — insecure fetches are now only permitted when statixly_allow_insecure_local_http_fetch is explicitly and correctly set.
- Feature: Export job now enqueues allowed static files from the site document root, excluding PHP files.
- Feature: Implemented auto-resume functionality when connectivity is restored during an export, with configurable retry attempts and delays.
- Feature: Added support for two advanced opt-in flags — statixly_prefer_temp_storage_above_document_root and statixly_allow_insecure_local_http_fetch.
- Improvement: Introduced statixly_get_option_bool helper for consistent boolean option retrieval across the codebase.
- Improvement: Minimum required PHP and WordPress versions are now defined as plugin constants for more maintainable version checks.
- Improvement: Upload directory handling now supports explicit opt-in for above-webroot temporary storage with clearer error logging.
- Improvement: Uninstaller now removes directories based on the configured upload path for thorough cleanup.
- Improvement: Installation timestamp now uses WordPress current_time() for consistency.
- Improvement: Few export log messages in the admin UI are now translatable.
- Fix: Moved admin.css to assets/css/ and updated the enqueue reference accordingly.
1.0.0
- Initial stable release.
- Added admin export interface with live status updates.
- Added start, pause, resume, and abort export controls.
- Added static ZIP download and export log download.
- Added tools to delete logs and temporary export directories.