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Moving From WordPress: What Comes Across and What Gets Left Behind
Posts, pages and images convert to plain files with one command. Plugins, comments and page-builder layouts each need a decision of their own.
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Tips, guides and updates from the Static Site Hosting UK team.
No Database, No PHP: Why Static Pages Arrive Faster
On mobile, 40% of WordPress sites passed all three Core Web Vitals in 2024. A static page skips the work a WordPress server does before it can reply.
No Login Page to Guess: Your Site Without wp-admin
Bots try passwords on wp-login.php and xmlrpc.php on every WordPress site they find. A static site has neither address to try.
Most WordPress Vulnerabilities Are in Plugins. A Static Site Runs None.
Patchstack counted 11,334 new WordPress vulnerabilities in 2025. Six were in WordPress itself. The rest came with the plugins and themes people add.
What a Static Site Is, and When You Need Something Else
Most websites are pages people read. Those can be built once and sent as files, and that covers more sites than you might expect.
No More Form Spam From Tor and Server Farms
Forms, bookings and newsletter sign-ups now refuse posts from Tor, VPNs and hosting networks. Real visitors on a VPN are told what to change.
Fewer Junk Form Submissions
Forms now drop a kind of bot spam that gets past Altcha: made-up names and messages of random letters. Nothing to change on your site.
