[wp-edu] WordPress standalone html websites
Jennifer Stevens
jennifer_stevens at emerson.edu
Wed Aug 28 16:33:36 UTC 2013
We were using GetLeft<http://sourceforge.net/projects/getleftdown/>, but have switched to
wget -m -p -E -k -w 2 -erobots=off -Dword.emerson.edu <<blog url goes here>>
That may not be the final command – I think our guy is still tinkering with it. He is also writing us a program that will let us dump in a list of the urls of the blogs we want to archive, runs wget on them automatically, and stores the html files in folders on our internal storage.
Jenn Stevens
Director | Instructional Technology Group | 403A Walker Building | Emerson College | 120 Boylston St | Boston MA 02116 | (617) 824-3093
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Has anyone ever created an offline copy of a WordPress site that can be viewed as a standalone html website? A colleague has some beautiful sites that she'd like to take down yet preserve for offline viewing independent of WordPress. Short of printing all the materials out, it doesn't seem possible. Years ago, I used the free version of WinHTTrack website copier to create static copies of MovableType blogs. That solution worked great then but not so on WordPress multisite. Even when the sites are made public. Couldn't find any plugins that do this successfully either. Thanks for any suggestions.
Best,
Ben
Ben Harwood
Academic Technologies
Skidmore College
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The unix tool wget has an archive option, which you can use for this sort of thing. It may not produce a perfect site but it will help get you there.?
https://www.google.com/search?q=wget+archive+website&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari
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Has anyone ever created an offline copy of a WordPress site that can be viewed as a standalone html website? A colleague has some beautiful sites that she'd like to take down yet preserve for offline viewing independent of WordPress. Short of printing all the materials out, it doesn't seem possible. Years ago, I used the free version of WinHTTrack website copier to create static copies of MovableType blogs. That solution worked great then but not so on WordPress multisite. Even when the sites are made public. Couldn't find any plugins that do this successfully either. Thanks for any suggestions.
Best,
Ben
Ben Harwood
Academic Technologies
Skidmore College
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I have not, but I have used the really static plugin, and I think it can
help in this instance: http://wordpress.org/plugins/really-static/
Just use it to create static html of the website while still keeping the
structure, and then move the static files to the root of the domain.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Benjamin Harwood <bharwood at skidmore.edu<mailto:bharwood at skidmore.edu>>wrote:
Has anyone ever created an offline copy of a WordPress site that can be
viewed as a standalone html website? A colleague has some beautiful sites
that she'd like to take down yet preserve for offline viewing independent
of WordPress. Short of printing all the materials out, it doesn't seem
possible. Years ago, I used the free version of WinHTTrack website copier
to create static copies of MovableType blogs. That solution worked great
then but not so on WordPress multisite. Even when the sites are made
public. Couldn't find any plugins that do this successfully either. Thanks
for any suggestions.
Best,
Ben
Ben Harwood
Academic Technologies
Skidmore College
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I recommend that your colleague install WAMP<http://www.wampserver.com/en/> (Windows) or MAMP<http://www.mamp.info/en/index.html> (Mac), which are Windows/Mac + Apache + MySQL + PHP. The Mac version is pretty easy to install. The Windows version less so from what I have seen.
WAMP/MAMP produces the same hosted environment that WP websites run on except off of your laptop. This is the conventional sandbox setup for development, and it is not taxing on your computer. It does not run unless you launch it.
Once you configure the settings, just drop the entire original website directory into the designated site location parent directory. You will have to do some changes to the database to point everything locally instead of the original hosting location, but it does not require any major coding skills (mostly a wholesale search & replace).
It is not dirt simple to do, but once you have it setup and the routine figured out, you can run a WP website locally for demonstrations or archival purposes as though it were live. Your browser URL would simply go from http://schmo.college.edu (or whatever) to http://localhost/schmo
This method preserves the fundamental WP "guts" (avoiding HTML translation), and allows you to modify it for whatever needs you might have using the WP dashboard as usual.
Thx ? Steve
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Subject: Re: [wp-edu] WordPress standalone html websites
The unix tool wget has an archive option, which you can use for this sort of thing. It may not produce a perfect site but it will help get you there.
https://www.google.com/search?q=wget+archive+website&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Benjamin Harwood <bharwood at skidmore.edu<mailto:bharwood at skidmore.edu><mailto:bharwood at skidmore.edu>> wrote:
Has anyone ever created an offline copy of a WordPress site that can be viewed as a standalone html website? A colleague has some beautiful sites that she'd like to take down yet preserve for offline viewing independent of WordPress. Short of printing all the materials out, it doesn't seem possible. Years ago, I used the free version of WinHTTrack website copier to create static copies of MovableType blogs. That solution worked great then but not so on WordPress multisite. Even when the sites are made public. Couldn't find any plugins that do this successfully either. Thanks for any suggestions.
Best,
Ben
Ben Harwood
Academic Technologies
Skidmore College
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