Great but a couple of points
By 
websafe8080 on February 24, 2025
The export worked well. I created a folder on the server and had the files export to that folder. It took about 14 hours but the site has over 1300 pages so that was not too long considering. The site looks exactly like the main site and that is worth 5 stars. However, I dropped a star for two issues:
1. When I did an analysis of the site, performance for the static site was considerably worse than the wordpress site: 69% versus 95%.
2. The static site has an additional slash on links. EG: If the page is "www.example.com/home/", the static site is showing "www.example.com/static//home/". This is my fault but I think the caution on the "General tab" should be updated:
Current caution
"Example: enter /path above if you wanted to serve your files at www.example.com/path/"
Proposed caution
"Example: enter /path (without a trailing slash) above if you want to serve your files at www.example.com/path/
Note: it is important not to enter a trailing slash or your links will have an additional slash after the path on your static site:
www.example.com/path//link1/
Exporting zip to offline mode works really great
By 
joben on December 12, 2024
I first tried to use another software called WinHTTrack to archive a WordPress site, and it just didn't work as intended due to some "lazy load" images. Cool piece of software otherwise, but perhaps a bit dated and not specifically made for WordPress.
Simply Static free version did the trick! I Barely had to do any configuration at all. Saved me tons of time that it worked on the first try. It was a special request from a customer to have their site archived locally for nostalgic purposes.
Also wanted to point out that I read some of the other reviews, and I can just conclude that a lot of people seem to be blaming their own lack of knowledge and shortcomings on the plugin. Some other people just seem to lack basic manners how to request support. And some people, well, there is a medical term for that can be considered derogatory if they knew what it meant, so I will just keep it to myself.
Works well, plenty of publishing options
By 
lsaul on December 6, 2024
Our organization uses it to publish critical information and it works as intended the majority of the time. Occasionally there have been issues communicating with Github, but this may be an issue with website configurations.
Terrible experience
By 
ivanom on January 5, 2025
This is an edit of my first review.
I’m not one to leave bad reviews often, and I don’t like piling on, but in this case, it’s necessary. Why? Because “Mr. Patrick Posner” decided to retaliate against my first review by spreading lies about me on top of the false claims about his plugin’s compatibility with Elementor forms.
He wrote that I’m a scammer, that I’m using his plugin, and that I got a refund.
False. The money was NOT refunded and I trashed his plugin because it’s not compatible with Elementor forms, despite what’s advertised.
Just setting the record straight about who the real scammer is.
Fantastic Plugin and Excellent Support
By 
pieterkmo on September 27, 2024
We’ve been using Simply Static for several projects, and it has consistently delivered great results. The plugin is well-designed, easy to use, and helps create static versions of WordPress websites seamlessly. What really stands out is the level of detail and care put into the development—it’s clear that the team behind it knows what they’re doing.
The support team has been incredibly responsive and helpful. Even when we encountered an issue with our hosting setup (which was unrelated to the plugin itself), Patrick and his team provided guidance and solutions, going above and beyond to assist us.
We highly recommend Simply Static for anyone looking for a reliable and efficient static site generator. Great work from the entire team!
Amazing Plugin-I recommend pro
By 
Carin (sparksfreebies) on August 17, 2024
What this plugin can do for your website is simply amazing, and I recommend the pro version, the support is outstanding.
Localhost stuck
By 
4dude on July 26, 2024
It was creating an archive of the simple website with 10 pages on localhost for... 5 hours.
But all this time I couldn't reach the site at all... Thought it was dead...
Strange plugin
simply static very good
By 
phuctran28899 on July 9, 2024
simply static very good
This plugin mostly doesn't provide slide show with galleries .
By 
tatyana100 on June 11, 2024
Hello, I have about several Wordpress sides but this plugin only working on one of the sides allow to have slide show and click on the images. Also some images become corrupted when converted to static.
Several tickets were open in the support forum and in GitHub forum. It was answered that the problem solved by using relative path but there are still not slideshow and images are not clickable even so I've used relative path and followed direction provided.
Results in Simply Static -> Settings -> Diagnostics -all passed except PHP option < 8 (7.4). My server provider is working on it . So, it is not likely that PHP version create an issue since one of my Wordpress side is workin.g in static .
Is a free version of this plugin allow to use Jetpack galleries or it is limited to only one Wordpress side?
How to make Wordpress sides and particularly Jetpack galleries to work with this plugin?
Thanks.
great plugin
By 
sinanisler on June 1, 2024
I tested very very early versions before it had some issues but developer looks like fixed all those issues.
Now I tested my bricks builder site and generated statics html. it worked really nice. my site even had custom gsap animations and lots of custom css animations none of them had a problem.
Well done
