Decade old WordPress to static-only site

anjanesh

One of my next-to-zero traffic WordPress site got infected with malware which even created a user in my WordPress site called wpsupport@mydomain.com ! It created some 200 spam posts but because its not like a blog, it didn't get exposed to the front-page.

WordPress version is 4.9.18 (PHP 5.7) and it has mainly research articles in Chemistry - I want to convert this to a static site. What are the good options ? I have the posts (articles) in the MySQL table which I can copy as HTML content.

sean

anjanesh one way is download the entire site with wget and then upload those files to a static app, eg:

wget \
  --mirror \
  --page-requisites \
  --html-extension \
  --convert-links \
https://domain.com/

I think there are also many different WP plugins that can do the conversion for you, but I've never tried them. Search the WP plugin repository to see if one of them will meet your needs.

anjanesh

Right now the site is disabled because of some random junk PHP scripts in WordPress directory.
I removed a lot of them but there still may be some lying around. So the URL doesn't work.

sean

anjanesh if you've cleaned up the malware that was identified then please follow up via the related support ticket. We'll take another look will re-enable the site so that you can make the conversion.