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Staatic publishes the pages your WordPress renders, so most themes and plugins keep working. Look up yours to see what it needs.

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Look up a WordPress plugin or feature

No chip means it works in the free plugin too; Premium means any paid plan, Staatic Cloud included. Names with a docs page link to it.

  • Works: Nothing to set up.
  • Set up: Switch on a setting or add Premium.
  • Origin rule: On Staatic Cloud, a path stays live on a server.
  • Live site: Runs on a server, not on a static site.

Themes, builders and content

  • Pages, posts and custom post types
    Works as is

    Published as finished pages, with their archives and menus.

  • Elementor and Elementor Pro
    Works as is

    Built-in handling for pages and popups.

  • Avada
    Works as is

    Built-in handling picks up Avada’s images, including WebP backgrounds.

  • Astra, Divi, Kadence, GeneratePress and other themes
    Works as is

    Themes build finished pages, so they publish as they look. Click through a published copy before you switch.

  • Beaver Builder, Bricks, WPBakery and other builders
    Works as is

    Builders turn your layout into page HTML, so it publishes with the page. Click through a published copy before you switch.

  • Lazy-loaded images
    Works as is

    Images loaded through data-src and data-srcset are published too.

  • Sliders, maps, tabs and other scripts
    Works as is

    Scripts that run in the browser keep working. If one loads data from WordPress, see APIs and live endpoints.

SEO, redirects and sitemaps

  • Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress and The SEO Framework
    Works as is

    Titles, descriptions and structured data are part of each page, so they publish with it. Staatic also publishes the logo Yoast’s structured data points to.

  • XML sitemap and robots.txt
    Works as is

    The WordPress sitemap is included, and robots.txt for a site at the domain root. Sitemaps listed in robots.txt, and the sitemaps inside a sitemap index, are found too. Add any others under Additional URLs.

  • Redirection, Rank Math and other redirect plugins
    Works as is

    Basic redirects from Rank Math, Redirection, Safe Redirect Manager, Simple 301 Redirects and Yoast Premium are imported automatically.

  • Redirects and your 404 page
    Works as is

    Redirects carry over and your WordPress 404 page becomes the static one, on Staatic Cloud and on Netlify. Other hosts and zip downloads need a setting, covered in the docs.

Caching and images

Forms

Comments, shops and accounts

Analytics, security and backups

  • Site Kit, MonsterInsights and Google Tag Manager plugins
    Works as is

    The tracking code they add is part of each page, so it runs in visitors’ browsers as before.

  • Complianz, Cookiebot and CookieYes
    Works as is

    The cookie banner runs in the browser and remembers each visitor’s choice. Complianz’s consent log and its manage-consent block on the cookie policy page need WordPress.

  • Wordfence, Sucuri and Solid Security
    Works as is

    They keep guarding WordPress, which visitors no longer reach. Logs and backups they keep in your uploads are never published. If you turn on rate limiting, allow your server’s address, or a publication can miss pages.

  • UpdraftPlus and Duplicator backups
    Works once set upStaatic Cloud

    Import one to move your site to Staatic Cloud, or a ZIP of your WordPress files and database. Other formats, such as All-in-One WP Migration, can’t be imported yet.

Languages and networks

  • WPML
    Works as is

    Built-in handling, including its language URLs.

  • Polylang
    Works as is

    Every language is published with its switcher and hreflang tags. Visitors are no longer sent to their browser’s language.

  • TranslatePress
    Works as is

    Translated pages, the switcher and hreflang tags are published. Text that scripts add after the page loads stays untranslated.

  • WordPress Multisite, self-hosted
    Works as is

    Each site publishes on its own, with its own settings and destination.

  • WordPress Multisite on Staatic Cloud
    Works once set upStaatic Cloud

    Subdomain networks, set up on request. Subdirectory networks and sunrise.php domain mapping are not supported.

Scheduling and publishing

  • Scheduled posts
    Works as is

    They appear once you publish again. With Premium, Staatic publishes them when they go live.

  • Publish on save or on a schedule
    Works once set upPremium

    Publishes when a post changes, or at times you set. On your own hosting, WP-Cron must run.

APIs and live endpoints

  • REST API endpoints
    Stays live with an origin ruleStaatic Cloud

    Send /wp-json/* or one route to your WordPress with an origin rule (needs always-on).

  • admin-ajax.php
    Stays live with an origin ruleStaatic Cloud

    Load-more buttons and AJAX filters reach WordPress through an origin rule (needs always-on).

  • Your own app, API or files
    Stays live with an origin ruleStaatic Cloud

    Send a path such as /app/* to your own server or public bucket, under your custom domain.

  • Paths your own CDN forwards
    Works once set upPremium

    Self-hosted sites can’t use origin rules. If your CDN forwards paths to a server, Premium keeps them out of publications.

Keep a few paths live with a hybrid static site

On Staatic Cloud, an origin rule sends a path such as /wp-json/* to a live server. Every other path stays static.

To your site’s WordPress
For REST routes, admin-ajax.php and plugin endpoints. Needs the always-on add-on, €9 a month per WordPress instance (one for a whole Multisite network). Not part of the trial.
To your own server
An app, an API or a public bucket, under your custom domain. Starter allows 1 path to 1 server and Professional up to 10 paths to 3 servers.
What to keep in mind
A forwarded path is live again, so protect it like any live site.
www.example.com two origin rules
  1. /wp-json/* This site’s WordPressNeeds the always-on add-on
  2. /app/* Your own server or bucketNeeds your custom domain
  3. Every other path Your static sitePublished pages and files
The first matching rule wins.

Origin rules need Staatic Cloud.

Origin rules docs

What Staatic needs from your WordPress

On your own hosting the plugin runs on most WordPress servers, older ones included: an outdated site you can’t update yet can go static first. On Staatic Cloud we run WordPress for you, with Premium installed.

The plugin on your own hosting

WordPress
5.0 or newer
PHP
7.1 or newer (8.3+ recommended)
PHP extensions
mbstring, json, xml and zip (usually installed)
Server
Linux, Windows or macOS
Permalinks
Any structure except Plain
Requests to itself
WordPress must reach its own address (loopback requests); Site Health checks this
Automatic publishing (Premium)
Needs a working WP-Cron

On Staatic Cloud

WordPress
Managed for you, password-protected
PHP
Chosen per site (8.4 or 8.5 recommended)
Bringing a site in
An UpdraftPlus or single-site Duplicator backup, or a ZIP of your files and database
Multisite
Subdomain networks, set up on request
File size
Up to 1 GiB per file
Files per deployment
Up to 150,000

Each requirement in full, with install steps.

Requirements docs

When a static site is the wrong fit

Staatic suits sites where most pages look the same for every visitor.

Visitors sign in or get their own pages
Shops with accounts and member sites need a live server. Staatic can still publish the pages around them.
Content changes by the minute
Changes go out with the next publication. Keep live stock or scores on a live page, or load them in the browser.

Not sure? Try it on your own site

Bring a copy to Staatic Cloud, free for 14 days, and click through the static version. Or tell us your plugins and we’ll tell you what to expect.

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