Traditional static site generators (Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, and similar) ask you to move your content into a new build pipeline and often a new framework. Static Shield generates static output directly from the WordPress install, theme, and plugins you're already running.
Most static site generators are excellent, but they assume you're starting fresh, or willing to migrate content and rebuild templates into their system — a real engineering project, not a configuration change.
It builds a static release directly from your live WordPress site: the same theme, the same plugins, the same admin workflow you already use to publish. Publishing triggers a new release in the background, which swaps in once it's ready — no separate build tool to maintain.
You keep wp-admin, your existing plugins, and your publishing workflow. What changes is how requests are served: visitors hit pre-rendered static content instead of PHP running on every request.
Static Shield Lite is free to install and inspects your actual WordPress install, not just the public surface.
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