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I’m new to WordPress and need to make a simple portfolio site, for some reason my WordPress site has gone blank spent half the day trying to figure it out. Since I’m on a deadline I was planning to just make a static site locally and then (when I fix WordPress) upload it to WordPress, since I’m new I have no idea how I would do this. Do I just copy the code into a theme? Are there any themes good for this or should I make my own?
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“make a static site locally and then (when I fix WordPress) upload it to WordPress” it doesn’t work like that unfortunately. WordPress stores all the data in the database and the theme is just a template to display that data. You could create a custom theme where every part is just a static page you created might work you’d be better of just bypassing WordPress altogether (replace the index.php) and just display the static site and fix WordPress separately.
Use a static site generator CMS like Publii or Hugo and a free host service like Netlify or Cloudflare Pages. WordPress isn’t static, it requires a database.