Wow!

Worked perfectly first time. Had to use “local” option rather than relative url. Relative URL still assumes hosting on a web server that can use php. The local option generates files: html, css, etc. The theming comes across perfectly.

Even the comments are placed on static pages (no new comments–it’s a history of the comments received when the site was running on wordpress). The comment form is rendered perfectly (it’s just html, after all), but can’t work because there is no connection back to a running wordpress site with php code to catch the comments. So, in general everything is rendered but any link to php functions of wordpress can’t work because wordpress is gone from this set of files.

Moderate sized site: 542 pages, nearly all with images. 46mb (not very big…). Took 3 min. 26 seconds on a not very high-end shared host.

Read more links work. Pagination links.

External links that were setup in the wordpress site work. External links that were not defined naturally lead to resource not found.

The html is pretty complicated to piece everything together so is not very easy to modify, but it’s all there…