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Client had a WordPress site – lots of photos and documents that get traffic still – but the site owner has died.
There’s talk of keeping the website up but not a lot of budget to keep it running as is, ie me performing maintenance and security on it. Since new content won’t be added, it seems like keeping it as a WordPress site is making more work than is necessary. But I’m not sure what some good alternatives are – keeping the look of the website the same, but removing the need for plugins and them files to be updated.
Anyone with similar experience? Any thoughts much appreciated.
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I think there is a way to force [Archive.org]) to index a site, if it has not done so already. You should look into that. Or, look at a site ripper such as Httrack.
Here is what I would do. Export the DB / wordpress content and store it somewhere safe.
Export the site as static with something like this:
Create git repo for the static site, push it to github (you can upload manually, use command line, or their GUI app)
Connect the git repo to – free hosting for life. Best performance too.
You’ll have the DB/wordpress backup in case you want to spin the site back up.