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Tired of Constant WordPress Updates? Convert Your Site to Static

If nobody has published anything on your site in a year, you are paying for plugin updates, security patches, a database and a login page the whole internet can attack, to serve a few pages that never change. A static conversion keeps the design and the URLs and removes everything that needs maintaining. From $129, one-off.

Instant price from your sitemap · Live in 3 to 5 working days · Full refund if it cannot be done

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Type your website address. I read your sitemap, count the pages and show the price. No email needed.

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Most Small Business Sites Do Not Need WordPress

WordPress is a publishing system. It is brilliant when you publish. When the site is a brochure that has not changed since launch, every update I apply on a maintenance plan is protecting pages that would be safer as plain files. I run maintenance plans for a living, and for a site like that I would rather convert it once than bill you every month.

Nothing to update
No core, plugin or PHP updates. Ever.
Nothing to hack
No login, no database, no code running on the server.
Loads fast
Plain files from a CDN. No server thinking time.
Cheaper to run
$12 a month hosting, or host the files anywhere.
Looks the same
Your design, your words, your URLs.

A Good Fit, and Not a Fit

Good fit

  • Brochure sites: who you are, what you do, how to get in touch
  • Sites that have not changed in a year or more
  • Sites built by a developer or agency who has moved on
  • Old sites with expired plugins and a theme nobody dares update
  • Hacked sites you just want back online, cleanly, with nothing to maintain afterwards
  • Maintenance plan clients whose site has stopped changing. Yes, I will say so.

Not a fit

  • WooCommerce and other shops with a basket and checkout
  • Member areas, customer logins and course platforms
  • Booking systems and live availability
  • Sites you update every week yourself
  • Directories and anything visitors submit content to

If that is you, a maintenance plan keeps the site safe instead. The price box above tells you which group your site is in.

One Price, Based on Page Count

Legal pages do not count. Up to 50 blog posts are included in every band. Prices exclude tax.

Small
$129
Up to 10 pages
Most brochure sites
Medium
$259
11 to 30 pages
Service businesses with a blog
Large
$449
31 to 75 pages
Older sites that grew over the years
Custom
from $649
75+ pages
Quoted individually within one working day

One-off, paid when you order. Full refund if I cannot deliver a matching static copy.

What Every Conversion Includes

An exact copy of every page
Same design, layout and words. Visitors cannot tell the difference.
All images, PDFs and downloads
Everything a page links to comes across.
Same URLs, with redirects
Every address stays the same. Anything that has to move gets a 301, so rankings carry over.
Titles, meta and social previews
Page titles, meta descriptions and Open Graph tags preserved.
XML sitemap and robots.txt
Regenerated for the static site.
Image compression
Compressed and served in modern formats.
SSL and domain switch
Certificate, DNS and cut-over handled. The old site stays up until you are happy.
Every page checked, before and after
A sitemapcheck.app report shows every URL that worked before still works after launch.
Full backup of the old WordPress
Files and database handed over. Nothing deleted until you say so.
14 days of free fixes
Anything you spot after launch, fixed at no charge.

Add-ons, Only If You Need Them

Contact form
$39 per form
Keeps working through a form service, with spam filtering, to your inbox.
Cookie banner and analytics
$39
Privacy-friendly analytics and a cookie notice where you need one.
Site search
$59
A search box that works without a database.
Extra blog posts
$59 per 50
The first 50 posts are included in every band.
Express delivery
$59
Live within 2 working days instead of 3 to 5.
Changes during the move
Quoted
New phone number, a page removed, updated hours. Priced before I start.

After Launch: Hosting From $12, First 3 Months Free

Hosting starts when the site goes live, not when you order. Cancel any time and take the files with you.

Static Hosting

$12 per month
Managed hosting with a CDN, SSL, backups and a monthly check that every page still loads.
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Hosting + Edits

$25 per month
Static Hosting plus 6 small content changes a year, live the same week.
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Take it with you

Free
The finished site as a folder of files or a Git repository. Host it anywhere.

Compare that with a maintenance plan from $34 a month, which is what a WordPress site needs to stay safe.

Two Recent Conversions

Two small business sites I converted recently. Both looked identical afterwards. Everything an attacker could use was gone.

Site A 11 pages, last changed 2018 Site B 7 pages, last changed 2015
Files on the server9,380 → 27410,915 → 320
Disk space260 MB → 14 MB187 MB → 3.4 MB
Files that can run codeabout 2,750 → 0about 6,100 → 1
Plugins to keep updated9 → 011 → 0
Screens compared, old against new27 of 27 identical21 of 21 identical

Site B's contact form had bounced 1,926 messages since 2015. Nobody knew. I check the old form on every conversion.

Why I Offer This on a Maintenance Site

Most of what I write about on this blog is what goes wrong when WordPress is left alone: a supply-chain backdoor shipped inside a plugin update, a PHP vulnerability that turns any upload into a shell, a server compromise traced back to one unpatched site. Every one of those needs PHP running on the server to work. A static site has no PHP, no database and no admin login. The whole class of problem disappears.

So when someone asks me to maintain a ten-page site that has not changed since 2019, the honest answer is not a care plan. It is this page. The maintenance plans stay for the sites that need them: shops, members, bookings, busy blogs, anything with moving parts.

Live in 3 to 5 Working Days

For sites up to 30 pages. Larger sites take a little longer and you get a date when you order.

01
Get your price and pay
The price box reads your sitemap and counts the pages. Pay the one-off price to start.
02
Full backup
Files and database before anything changes. You get a copy.
03
Static build
Every page rebuilt as plain HTML with the same design and addresses, compared against the original.
04
Preview link
Click around. Anything that looks off is fixed before launch.
05
Domain switch
SSL, redirects and cut-over. The WordPress site stays in place until you sign off.
06
Report and hand-over
Before-and-after check of every page, the backup, and 14 days of fixes.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Design, layout, images and text are kept as they are. What changes is underneath: no WordPress, no database, no plugins to maintain. If anything looks different on the preview, I fix it before launch.
For a site that has stopped changing, yes, and a better one. A maintenance plan keeps WordPress safe by updating it every month. A static site has nothing to update. If your site is a shop, has logins or bookings, or you publish weekly, you still need WordPress and a plan.
Forms need something to receive the message, so they are a $39 add-on. The form looks the same and delivers to your inbox through a form service with spam filtering. I also check the old form actually worked. One site I converted had bounced 1,926 messages since 2015 without anyone noticing.
Not through a WordPress dashboard. Hosting + Edits at $25 a month covers 6 small changes a year. If you publish every week, static is the wrong fit and I will tell you.
URLs, titles, descriptions and content stay the same and anything that moves gets a 301 redirect, so there is nothing for Google to re-learn. Static pages are also quick, which search engines reward.
Usually. The static copy is built from what the public pages render, injected scripts and spam links are stripped, and the result contains nothing executable for an attacker to return to. If the pages are too damaged to copy cleanly I tell you before you pay.
No. Rootscope static hosting is $12 a month with the first 3 months free, or you take the files and host them anywhere. Static sites run on almost any host, including free tiers.
Prices exclude tax. Any applicable VAT or sales tax is calculated at checkout based on your location.
If I cannot deliver a static copy that matches your site, you get a full refund and your WordPress site is untouched.

Stop Maintaining a Site That Never Changes.

Get your price at the top of the page, or send me the address below and I will reply with a fixed price within one working day. If the site needs WordPress after all, I will say so and point you at the right plan.

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