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Developer Guide

The Developer Guide covers Staatic extension points for WordPress developers who need behavior beyond the settings screen.

Start with Hooks overview if you are not sure which hook to use.

Topic	Use it for
Hooks overview	Choosing the right action or filter and understanding practical callback constraints.
Publication lifecycle hooks	Running code around publication tasks, changing task order, tuning batch sizes, and cleanup retention.
URL processing hooks	Controlling crawl decisions, URL transformation, live URL replacement, and HTML URL discovery.
Extension hooks	Adding deployment methods, settings, crawl URL providers, transformers, and post-processors.
Custom deployment methods	Building a complete custom deployer with settings, validation, a deploy strategy, and optional preview support.

Hooks overview

Use this overview to choose the right Staatic action or filter hook before changing publication, URL processing, deployment, or plugin settings behavior.

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Publication lifecycle hooks

Customize Staatic publication execution with lifecycle actions, task filters, batch-size filters, timeout filters, and cleanup retention hooks.

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URL processing hooks

Control how Staatic crawls, evaluates, discovers, replaces, and transforms URLs during static site generation.

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Extension hooks

Extend Staatic with custom crawl URL providers, transformers, post-processors, deployment methods, and settings.

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Custom deployment methods

Build a custom Staatic deployment method by registering a deployment option, validating configuration, and returning a deploy strategy for the selected target.

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