I like static sites because page loads are lightning fast and hosting is dirt cheap. I host Wordpress static sites with AWS S3 and Netlify. To do this I use normal, dynamic WordPress sites for development which I turn into static sites using the Simply Static plugin . I thought Local could be perf…

Look on Preferences > Exporting. The default File Exclusions are *.zip, *.tar.gz, *.bz2, *.tgz

Andy, thanks for the reply. Reading the description of that field (“add file extensions and names to exclude files from Local exports”) I think that means that those extensions (e.g. .zip) are not used as inputs when creating output using Local’s Export feature. I don’t have any .zip files (i.e. i…

It was worth a shot. Where do you have Simply Static writing out your files? Local 5.x should be able to write directly to the system file path without the need for the old Volumes Add-on.

Simply Static writes to a temporary directory: /home3/thomave0/public_html/tjc4/wp-content/plugins/simply-static/static-files/ There’s a “Delete temporary files at the end of the job” checkbox in the plugin. It’s checked. I don’t have any insight into the mechanics of the temp files. All I know …

Are you wanting to create the static files locally and then upload them to the server? If so, I think you’ll need to change the location of where the static files are written. Of course you would then need to use SFTP to upload them to your server. The temp directory you have above seems to be on y…

Yes, the temp directory is on the local server. The plugin creates a link to download the .zip from the local server. I then download the .zip, extract it, and upload to AWS S3 or push to GitHub for a Netlify deployment. When I create static sites using traditional, remotely hosted wordpress site…

Have you tried creating the local site with different versions of PHP? I thought I remember some issue with one of the supplied versions of PHP and zip.

[image] PHP 7.4.1 package missing zlib extensions [macOS & Linux] Support I was just bitten by this too, but on Catalina. I believe it is specific to the PHP 7.4.1 package as it works fine on the PHP 7.3.5 package. Ping @clay …

I’m running 7.2.26 on the remotely hosted version that works with the static plugins. I’m running 7.3.5 on the local version that causes issues. It sounds like the issue is with 7.4.1 so I’m probably safe?

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