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Every feature, and which edition has it

The free plugin publishes your site. Premium adds forms, search and automatic publishing. Staatic Cloud also hosts your WordPress and the public site.

Each edition includes the ones below it
  • Staatic Cloudhosted by us

    We host your WordPress and the public site, with backups and a preview site. From €28 a month.

  • Premiumany paid plan

    Forms, search, Publish Changes and automatic publishing.

  • Communityfree plugin

    Publishes your site to a folder on your server, Amazon S3, GitHub, Netlify, SFTP or a zip file.

Plan allowances are on the pricing page.

Publish what changed, and see what went out

Staatic crawls your site the way a visitor would and deploys every page and file together, as one publication.

Publish ChangesPremium
Only what you edited goes out, with the archive pages that list it.
Publish Selection
Publish chosen URLs or files. Premium merges them into the live site; the free plugin replaces the site with them.
Publish on save, on delete or on a schedulePremium
Changes go live without a manual step.
Preview siteStaatic Cloud
Check a separate preview address before the live site changes.
Publication Summary Staatic > Publications

Finished

The 38 resources that changed are live. Every other page stayed as it was.

Published By
editor
Type
Changes
Time Taken
51 seconds (42 seconds for crawling, 9 seconds for deployment)
Resources
38 resources (2 redirects, 0 failures)
Destination URL
https://www.example.com/
A Publish Changes run, with example values.

Each way to publish, and when to use which.

Publishing docs

Keep forms and search working on a static site

Static pages can’t run PHP. With Premium, Staatic handles forms and search, so they work without a reachable WordPress.

The form plugins you already usePremium
Contact Form 7, Divi, Gravity Forms and WPForms connect automatically. Any other HTML form works with a data-staatic attribute.
Spam checks, then notificationsPremium
Akismet and optional reCAPTCHA filter spam before anything reaches your inbox, autoresponder or Zapier.
Search as you typePremium
Visitors get suggestions as they type, in place of the WordPress search box, and a results page lists every match.
Other live parts, with origin rulesStaatic Cloud
Send one path, such as an API, to your own server, or to your WordPress with the always-on add-on. Every other page stays static.
New submission: Contact Contact Form 7
Name
Sam de Vries
Email
sam@example.com
Message
Could you quote for a site of about 40 pages, with a booking form?

Spam checks

  • Honeypot empty
  • reCAPTCHA passed
  • Akismet: not spam

Then sent as

  • Email to sales@example.com
  • Autoresponse to Sam
  • Webhook to Zapier
The form posts to Staatic, not to your WordPress.

How form handling works, step by step.

Form handling

Try a live search box.

Search demo

Let us host it, or deploy it where you like

On Staatic Cloud we run both your WordPress and the public site. If you host it yourself, the free plugin deploys to six kinds of destination.

On Staatic Cloud

Managed WordPress for each siteStaatic Cloud
Behind its own password prompt, out of public reach, with 10 GiB storage.
Fast public site, worldwideStaatic Cloud
Visitors get finished pages over HTTPS from one of 250+ locations near them (400+ on Enterprise).
Custom domain with SSLStaatic Cloud
Your own domain, with www or the apex as the main address.
BackupsStaatic Cloud
Daily, weekly and monthly backups, plus your own. Restore or download any of them.
Import your WordPress siteStaatic Cloud
From All-in-One WP Migration, UpdraftPlus, Duplicator, a cPanel or DirectAdmin backup, or a ZIP or tar.gz of your files and database. A backup is taken first.
SFTP, phpMyAdmin and PHP versionsStaatic Cloud
Direct access to your files and database, and a PHP version switch.

Hosting it yourself

Deployment Method Staatic > Settings > Deployment
  • Local Directory
  • Amazon S3 (or compatible) (selected)
  • GitHub
  • Netlify
  • SFTP Server
  • Zipfile
On Staatic Cloud the list also has Staatic Cloud, set up for you.

How Staatic runs your WordPress and serves the static site.

Staatic Cloud hosting

Run many sites, with a team or for clients

Each person gets their own Staatic login and only the sites they need. On Staatic Cloud they open WordPress from the dashboard, so nobody shares an admin password.

Invite client collaborators on any paid plan. Each login can use two-step verification.

Team Account › Team
  • You at your agency Owner

    Every site, the account and team, and closing or handing over the account

  • Project lead at your agency Administrator

    Every site, the account and team

  • Developer at your agency Member

    Every site

  • Editor at the client Collaborator

    bakery.exampleSite AccessForm Moderation

A collaborator takes no team seat and sees only the sites you select.

Who sees which sites, and what each role can do.

Team access docs

Script it, and change how it works

Publish and redeploy from WP-CLI, so a cron job or deploy pipeline can publish. Hooks change what is crawled and where it goes.

deploy.sh WP-CLI
  • wp staatic publish --partial

    Publish only the posts and terms you changed, plus the archives that list them. Premium

  • wp staatic publish --only-urls="/,/contact/"

    Update two pages and keep the rest of the live site. Premium

  • wp staatic publish --no-deploy --verbose

    Build and check the result without replacing the live site.

  • wp staatic redeploy "$PUBLICATION_ID"

    Put an earlier publication live again, without crawling.

A failed publication exits with a non-zero status, so a cron job or CI pipeline notices.
Action and filter hooks
Change publications and URL processing, or add a deployment method of your own.
Settings from environment variables
Give staging and production their own deployment settings, such as STAATIC_DEPLOYMENT_METHOD.
Staatic REST API for your accountPremium
Manage sites, deployments, forms and notifications from your own tools.

Every command and option.

Read the WP-CLI reference

The full list

Every feature, grouped by job. No chip means it’s in the free plugin; Premium means any paid plan. Names link to their documentation.

Included in

Publishing

Reviewing publications

URLs and redirects

Where it deploys

Forms and search

  • Forms from Contact Form 7, Divi, Gravity Forms and WPForms Premium

    Connect on their own. Ninja Forms is not supported.

  • Any HTML form Premium

    Add data-staatic to a form, with an optional redirect URL, honeypot field and file attachments.

  • Spam filtering Premium

    A honeypot field or reCAPTCHA when the form has one, then Akismet on every submission that passes.

  • Notifications Premium

    Email to you, an automatic reply to the sender, and a webhook for Zapier.

  • Submissions in WordPress, with CSV export Premium

    View, delete and mark submissions in WordPress or the Staatic dashboard.

  • Search as you type Premium

    Suggestions and highlighted matches in place of the WordPress search box, updated when you publish.

  • Search results page Premium

    A page you choose lists every match, with page numbers. Old /?s= links land there.

  • Search settings Premium

    Pick the post types and the number of results, rebuild the index, or restyle the box with CSS.

  • Separate search results on the preview site Staatic Cloud

    Preview publications keep their own search results.

  • Origin rules Staatic Cloud

    Send paths such as /wp-json/* to your WordPress, or to your own server or bucket. Up to 10 rules per site; your plan sets how many go to your own servers.

  • Always-on add-on Staatic Cloud

    WordPress pauses after 15 minutes without use. Always-on keeps it running. Rules to your WordPress need it.

Hosting on Staatic Cloud

  • Managed WordPress for each site Staatic Cloud

    10 GiB of storage per site. Only visits to the public site count toward bandwidth.

  • Public site served worldwide Staatic Cloud

    Visitors get finished pages over HTTPS from a location near them, one of 250+ on Amazon CloudFront (400+ on Enterprise).

  • Custom domain with SSL Staatic Cloud

    Apex domains work too. Without one, the site runs on a .live.onstaatic.com address.

  • Backups Staatic Cloud

    Daily backups kept for 7 days, weekly for 3 weeks and monthly for 3 months, plus your own. Restore or download any of them.

  • Import your WordPress site Staatic Cloud

    Upload an All-in-One WP Migration, UpdraftPlus or Duplicator backup, a cPanel or DirectAdmin backup, or a ZIP or tar.gz of your files and database. Staatic takes a backup before the import, and restores it if the import fails.

  • SFTP access Staatic Cloud

    Edit your WordPress files directly. Each site has its own SFTP server.

  • phpMyAdmin Staatic Cloud

    Direct access to the WordPress database.

  • Change the PHP version Staatic Cloud

    Switch versions from the dashboard.

  • WordPress closed to the public Staatic Cloud

    Behind its own password prompt, so bots and visitors can’t reach its login page or admin.

Teams and agencies

  • Team access per site Premium

    Collaborators on the sites you select on every paid plan; administrators and members on Professional and up. The trial includes both. Separate rights for site access, site management and form moderation.

  • WordPress Login from the dashboard Staatic Cloud

    Open WP Admin from the Staatic dashboard without sharing WordPress passwords.

  • Several API clients per site Premium

    Separate credentials for production, staging and development.

  • WordPress Multisite

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

Developer tools

Compatibility and safeguards

Requires WordPress 5.0 and PHP 7.1 or newer. Plan allowances are on the pricing page.