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Team Staatic
4.4 (21 reviews)
Staatic – Static Site Generator for WordPress
Use WordPress as your CMS, then publish a fast, lower-exposure static version of your site.
Staatic ranks #4,083 among WordPress.org plugins with 3,000+ active installations, is #152 of 1,658 in the Performance category, a 4.4/5 rating from 21 reviews, and was last updated Oct 28, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Compatible with WP 7.1.4
v1.15.0
Current Version v1.15.0
Updated 4 days ago
Last Update on 28 Oct, 2026
Refreshed 2 days ago
Last Refreshed on
#152 of 1,658 in Performance
Top 5% by installs
Downloads +61.4% this week
Actively maintained
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#4,083
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3K+
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KW Avg Position
89.7
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Downloads
83.9K
+23 today
Support Resolved
100%
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Rating
88%
Review 4.4 out of 5
4.4
(21 reviews)
Next Milestone 4K
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- Version
- 1.15.0
- Last Updated
- Oct 28, 2026
- Requires WP
- 5.0+
- Tested Up To
- 7.1.4
- PHP Version
- 7.1 or higher
- Author
- Team Staatic
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- ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4.4
- Reviews
- 21
- Support Threads
- 1
- Resolved
- 100%
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TL;DR
AI summary of the plugin's readmeThis plugin is for WordPress site owners and developers who want to publish a static version of their site while still editing content in WordPress. It solves the problem of exposing WordPress, PHP, and a database to visitor traffic by letting a prebuilt static copy serve the public site instead.
- Crawls site to build static publication
- Publishes from WordPress Admin
- Deploys to Local Directory
- Deploys to Amazon S3 or S3-compatible storage
- Deploys to GitHub, Netlify, SFTP, or zip
- Supports redirects and custom 404 pages
- WP-CLI command support
- Works with Multisite, WPML, HTTP Basic Auth
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Staatic – Static Site Generator for WordPress
Staatic crawls your WordPress site like a visitor, starting from the site's front page or configured Custom Origin URL, plus any additional URLs or paths you provide. It captures the generated HTML and related assets, then stores them as a static publication. When that publication is deployed, visitors receive prebuilt files instead of waiting for WordPress, PHP, plugins, and the database to build each page on demand. This usually improves time to first byte, reduces server load, and gives you a simpler public delivery path.
Caching plugins can be useful, but the public request still usually reaches WordPress infrastructure. Cache misses, cache purges, plugin behavior, and origin capacity can still affect visitors. Staatic changes the architecture: the public site is a deployed set of static files. You can host those files on your own server, object storage, a static hosting provider, or a CDN-backed setup, depending on the deployment method you choose.
No, it should not. Staatic publishes the output that WordPress already renders for visitors. If the static version differs, the cause is usually frontend behavior that depends on server-side requests, invalid HTML, blocked assets, authentication, or plugin/theme output that behaves differently while being crawled. The publication resources and logs can help identify what was captured and what failed.
Static delivery reduces the amount of WordPress infrastructure exposed to public visitors. Your public site can be served as files, while WordPress remains the authoring environment behind the publication workflow. In a private-origin, public-static setup, visitors do not hit wp-login.php, plugin PHP code, or database-backed page generation on the public site. This reduces the blast radius of many common WordPress risks, including plugin runtime vulnerabilities, automated login probing, and server-side behavior that only exists while WordPress is serving each request. You still need to maintain your WordPress origin, themes, plugins, accounts, and deployment credentials. The main security benefit is architectural: fewer dynamic systems are involved in serving anonymous public traffic.
Not entirely. Static sites do not run WordPress, PHP, or database queries for each visitor request. Plugins that depend on server-side processing on the public site may need changes or alternatives. Common examples include native comments, some search implementations, forms that post back to WordPress, eCommerce flows, membership areas, and plugins that fetch personalized server-side data. For forms and search, Staatic Premium provides ready-made integrations. For other dynamic features, use a static-compatible service, client-side integration, or a hybrid architecture where needed.
Staatic is designed to work on typical WordPress hosting, including many shared hosting environments. The server must be able to write to the configured work directory and make HTTP requests to the WordPress site being published. Large sites, slow origins, strict firewalls, disabled loopback requests, or very limited PHP execution time can require tuning. The Site Health checks, publication logs, and advanced settings are the best starting points if a publication does not start or takes too long.
By default, the Additional Paths setting adds your whole uploads directory to every publication. That way, files that only scripts load are not missed, but every other upload is published too, including image sizes no page uses and backups that other plugins keep there. If your pages link to the media they use, remove the uploads directory from Additional Paths under Staatic > Settings > Build, or list only the folders you need. Files your pages reference are still published. With the Local Directory deployment method, you can instead turn on Symlink/Copy Uploads, which skips the uploads directory during publication and links it into the published site (or copies it, on Windows). On shared hosting, leave enough free disk space for the work directory as well as the published site. If a complete publication needs more time, raise the Publication Time Limit under Staatic > Settings > Advanced.
If you have any questions or issues, please start with the documentation and FAQ. If you cannot find an answer there, feel free to open a topic on our Support Forums. For commercial support, Staatic Premium, or Staatic Cloud questions, you can also contact us.
