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Hopefully I won't get down voted for this, but I've never understood why developers use something like Wordpress. Use Jekyll or Middleman. If you have the knowledge to do Angular tutorials you can type middleman build in a command line.

At work I've successfully taught a graphics designer and video editor to use Middleman. We use Github as the CMS(with markdown). They can pull down site with Github application and click a .command file to run it(for more involved changes). When they push it back up, it automatically builds. Just needs one click from there to go live.

Sorry for the little rant. The site does look promising but I can't get the other pages to load.

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You know, I've never understood why developers use Jekyll or Middleman when they have access to something like Wordpress. I mean, after all, my opinion is what counts here.

It's a tool in a toolbox, the individual reaches in and pulls out the tool that works best for the given situation based on their own personal reasons.

Plus you can easily make it static without even touching the command line if that's all you want.

Is there now an official/very reputable way to do it? I've found 101 tutorials and random scripts when I've looked in the past but nothing I'd want to use in production.

http://wordpress.org/plugins/really-static/

It's old enough and well tested for me but you may differ.

Sorry, wasn't trying to come off like my opinion is the only one that matters. Just pointing out something I've noticed on hacker news over time.

Wordpress has it's advantages, for example the huge number of plugins...

My experience has been that the plugin ecosystem looks a lot bigger from the outside.

My experience has been that there is nearly always a plugin for what you're attempting to do but they're hard to find (mostly because of naming) or they're poorly coded or missing features. Thankfully, most of them are GPL'd so you're pretty free to do whatever you want with them.

> so you're pretty free to do whatever you want with them

except when you actually look at the plugin's (or Wordpress's) source, you'll explode into a fountain of expletives.

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