About this plugin
StaticBolt is a selective static HTML generator — not a traditional cache plugin.
You choose exactly which pages become static. StaticBolt renders each one exactly as a visitor would see it, saves it as a plain HTML file, and serves that file directly on future visits. Every other page on your site keeps working like normal WordPress, and the static pages themselves remain fully editable in Gutenberg, Elementor, or the Classic Editor.
Why selective?
Most cache plugins cache everything and flush everything. StaticBolt does the opposite:
- You pick the pages. Your homepage, landing pages, and key marketing pages get static-file speed; your blog, forms, and dynamic areas stay untouched.
- Smart selective regeneration. When you edit your About page, StaticBolt regenerates the About page — plus only the pages whose rendered HTML actually links to it (tracked through a real link graph). It never flushes unrelated pages.
- Zero-maintenance. Publish, edit, trash, restore, update menus — affected static files update automatically.
Features
- Select exactly the pages you want static
- One-click generate, regenerate, and delete
- Automatic regeneration on content changes — selectively, never site-wide
- Safe HTML minification
- Instant navigation: static pages prerender each other in the background (Speculation Rules API), so clicking between them feels instant — no SPA framework needed
- Three serving tiers with graceful fallback: direct server rewrite (zero PHP), early serving via the advanced-cache.php drop-in, and a PHP fallback that works on any host
- Apache, Nginx, LiteSpeed, and OpenLiteSpeed support
- Status screen with health checks (loopback rendering, filesystem, permalinks)
- Statistics dashboard
- Debug mode with a protected, size-capped log
- Elementor, Gutenberg, and Classic Editor compatible
- Multisite compatible
- Translation ready, accessibility ready
- No ads, no tracking, no telemetry, no admin spam
How serving works
Generated files live in wp-content/uploads/staticbolt/. Visitors receive them through the fastest available method:
- Server rewrite (opt-in): Apache/LiteSpeed rewrite rules serve the file with PHP never starting. On Nginx, a copy-paste snippet is provided — StaticBolt never edits your server configuration.
- Early serving (default): the WordPress advanced-cache.php drop-in serves files before WordPress core loads.
- PHP fallback (always on): serving from within WordPress on any host, with zero setup.
Logged-in users, POST requests, query-string URLs, and password-protected content are always served dynamically by WordPress.