Serve Static – Automatic WordPress Static Page generator for WordPress

Serve Static provides a very efficient, simple and fast way of implementing static page caching in WordPress.

It will generate static HTML copies of your webpages which will be then served using your server rewrite rules. This feature will bypass the whole PHP process and render only a simple HTML file without having to interect with the PHP, or MySQL for getting your page’s design or content.

This plugin is really handy and helpful if your webpages are mainly static, like websites of Blogs, portfolios, company portfolios, service, and many more. This plugin doesn’t support any dynamic content caching, that means, all none of your dynamic content will be showing in the frontend, rather, a static version of that content will be showing.

This plugin also comes with home-made HTML, CSS and JS minification features, which you can use to auto-minify the static files. This ensures more lightness of the HTML pages, and more boost to your page speed. Also, you can auto-warm the cache using the Warm feature, which will stimulate a visit on all your pages, to create the static files before they are served to your visitors.

Usage After activating the plugin, it will try to modify your .htaccess file. If this is not possible for some reason, make sure to enter the rules by yourself. NOTE: without these .htaccess rules, the static files won’t be served or created. Note that, this is only applicable if you are using a Apache/Litespeed server.

# BEGIN Serve Static Cache RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !(^|;\s*)wordpress_logged_in_.*$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(elementor|vc_row|fl_builder|fl-theme-builder) [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wp-admin/ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} GET RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ [NC] RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/serve-static-cache/$1/index.html -f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wp-content/serve-static-cache/$1/index.html [L] # END Serve Static Cache

If you the website installed on a sub-folder, like such that “https://test.com/domain1”, is your main domain of your WordPress site, you need to use a different .htaccess code. The plugin will automatically do that for you, but incase you need to do it manually, below is the format you need to follow.