{"id":1040,"date":"2018-10-15T20:32:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T10:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.brisbane.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=1040"},"modified":"2018-11-05T14:52:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T04:52:14","slug":"wordpress-as-a-static-site-generator","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2018\/session\/wordpress-as-a-static-site-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress As A Static Site Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leon, the Author of the WP Static Site Generator plugin is joining us to talk about static websites and the myriad of ways in which you can keep using WordPress as a great\u00a0<abbr title=\"Content Management System\">CMS<\/abbr>\u00a0but reap the rewards of static site hosting.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll be covering a few questions such as\u00a0<em>What is a static website?<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Why would I want a static website?<\/em>\u00a0along with covering some of the many different solutions including specialised hosting platforms, plugins, REST API powered websites and the old-fashioned manual methods.<\/p>\n<p>Whether for security reasons, increased page load speeds or saving on hosting costs, you should come out with a better idea of the pros and cons of static website hosting for your WordPress powered site and a taste of the exciting world of static site generators in general.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2018.brisbane.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/10\/Leon-Stafford-WordPress-as-Static-Site-Generator.pdf\">Slides: Leon Stafford &#8211; WordPress as Static Site Generator<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JmU6lrB8bRs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-AU&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leon, the Author of the WP Static Site Generator plugin is joining us to talk about static websites and the myriad of ways in which you can keep using WordPress as a great\u00a0CMS\u00a0but reap the rewards of static site hosting. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2018\/session\/wordpress-as-a-static-site-generator\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">WordPress As A Static Site Generator<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241724,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1540596600,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[872],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[13412],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-1040","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-track-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa5Id6-gM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"session_date_time":{"date":"October 27, 2018","time":"9:30 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"872","slug":"leon-stafford","name":"Leon Stafford","link":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker\/leon-stafford\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1040\/revisions\/1511"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/872"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/leonstafford"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}