Turning WP blogs into HTML

[gotonudecom]

I thought there might be a plugin to do this but Im surprised you cant update it ?. An html file is no different to any other file and can be updated as often as you like

Still, the solution above will work with WP and pretty much any other CMS script

@tacnet
Have you experience or heard of exporting the WP database into json files and using python to create the static pages of the site?

That's one way of doing it but it seems a bit over complicated. That little script I posted above will take whatever output WP produces and write it straight to an html file. No export or json files needed

I agree, will check that little script out.

[Dorman]

How does that work when you want to add a new post?

You can just carry on using WP as normal. Make your posts and the cron job will automatically update the html pages every minute (or however often you set it to run)

Below is a copy of a post I did in the other thread regarding bots. It relates to pages on this forum but it can be tweaked to whatever pages you need

ok this is quick and dirty. Cron job will look something like this :-

Code: Select all

<?php 
//   First write the index to index.html
$html = file_get_contents('https://www.sponsorchat.com/index.php');
$filename = 'index.html';
$handle = fopen($filename,"w");
fwrite($handle,$html);
fclose($handle);

//   Now write topic list to topics.html
$html = file_get_contents('https://www.sponsorchat.com/viewforum.php?f=74');
$filename = 'topics.html';
$handle = fopen($filename,"w");
fwrite($handle,$html);
fclose($handle);
?>

Then, if your not familiar with editing your crontab file then I would get your hosts to add this line to it

Code: Select all

* * * * * php /full/path/to/your/php/file/mycronfile.php

That will run your cron file once every minute. The * * * * * means run the cron every minute. Or I could use */10 * * * * to run it every 10 minutes

Hope that helps

Nice idea let me test this out see if I can see how it does and get back to you

[gotonudecom]

How does that work when you want to add a new post?

You can just carry on using WP as normal. Make your posts and the cron job will automatically update the html pages every minute (or however often you set it to run)

Below is a copy of a post I did in the other thread regarding bots. It relates to pages on this forum but it can be tweaked to whatever pages you need

ok this is quick and dirty. Cron job will look something like this :-

Code: Select all

<?php 
//   First write the index to index.html
$html = file_get_contents('https://www.sponsorchat.com/index.php');
$filename = 'index.html';
$handle = fopen($filename,"w");
fwrite($handle,$html);
fclose($handle);

//   Now write topic list to topics.html
$html = file_get_contents('https://www.sponsorchat.com/viewforum.php?f=74');
$filename = 'topics.html';
$handle = fopen($filename,"w");
fwrite($handle,$html);
fclose($handle);
?>

Then, if your not familiar with editing your crontab file then I would get your hosts to add this line to it

Code: Select all

* * * * * php /full/path/to/your/php/file/mycronfile.php

That will run your cron file once every minute. The * * * * * means run the cron every minute. Or I could use */10 * * * * to run it every 10 minutes

Hope that helps

Nice idea let me test this out see if I can see how it does and get back to you

let us know how that turns out.

[porntraveller]

Not to get bashed I see no reason to mess about with WP it works and gets updates all the time for free.