Title: Static rendering
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Static rendering

 *  [seraph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seraph/)
 * (@seraph)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-rendering/)
 * Is there any possibilty that WordPress is able to statically render (spit out
   HTML files) sites? A good example is MovableType’s rendering which generates 
   URLs like [http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2003/12/12/accessible_i/](http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2003/12/12/accessible_i/)
   and the like. (What I am after is really the URLs, and secondly the server load
   being kept low)
    If there is no functionality as described above, is the plugin
   API (is there one?) wide enough to do this?

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 *  Thread Starter [seraph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seraph/)
 * (@seraph)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-rendering/#post-27942)
 * umm I just found out that the CVS version has the mod_rewrite all setup 🙂
 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-rendering/#post-27948)
 * And the URIs are even nicer than the one you linked. 🙂
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-rendering/#post-28911)
 * So WordPress doesn’t have static rendering then?
 *  [alan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alan/)
 * (@alan)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-rendering/#post-28912)
 * WordPress generates pages dynamically. The URI’s are abstracts. Correct me if
   I’m wrong but the only sites left on the net which are static are AOL users’ 
   homepages and MovableType users’ weblogs. 🙂
 *  [MaxT](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxt/)
 * (@maxt)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-rendering/#post-28913)
 * LOOOOL, nice one Alan 😉
 *  1539
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-rendering/#post-28914)
 * The whole idea of WP is that it doesn’t create static pages, rather it uses PHP
   to dynamically create pages on-the-fly. Now, if you want to save static pages
   the quick-and-dirty way, you can view a normal page in the browser, save the 
   page as *.html and name it, upload the file, and you now have a static page.

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-rendering/#post-28914)
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