I started messing around with my WordPress by first adding in a layer of security in Adding Nginx in Front of WordPress. After putting Nginx in front of my WordPress, I decided that I would further secure it by also Building a Static WordPress. That’s great and all but maybe it was time to make Nginx give me some performance gains rather than just some security controls. That is exactly what we’re going to do in this blog post....
From that previous post, you’ll note that I had a bunch of unanswered questions. Some of those questions might remain unanswered. By the time you get to the end of this post, you might be able to address them yourself. I’m going to focus on automating static WordPress updates whenever a new post is published. This similar logic should be possible to replicate when it comes to needing to update static content based upon WordPress and WordPress plugin updates....
Part of the reason that I can do this is because my site is mostly static. I don’t allow comments or other dynamic plugins. The site is only used to publish my blog posts and that’s about it. I also setup WordPress to use the permalink format of /%year%/%monthnum%/%post_id%/ First Step, Mirror the Site to a Private Repo Just as the heading states, I needed to first get all of my content available outside of WordPress....