Moon Static HTML Pages

Moon Static HTML Pages is a high-performance solution for serving WordPress content. It generates static HTML files of your posts, pages, and archives, and serves them either through high-performance .htaccess rules or an early-PHP fallback.

Features

• Ultra-Fast Performance: Serve your pages as raw static HTML. Bypasses WordPress core and database queries entirely when using .htaccess mode.
• Automated Site Generation: One-click tool to generate your entire site’s static files with real-time progress tracking and logs.
• Real-time Synchronization: Automatically regenerates specific static pages whenever you update a post, page, or category.
• Smart Pagination Caching: Automatically discovers and generates static HTML for paginated archives and listing pages.
• Advanced Redirection Manager: Powerful built-in SEO tool to manage 301, 302, and 307 redirects with direct .htaccess synchronization.
• WooCommerce Integration: Intelligently handles dynamic cart/checkout pages and overrides Store API nonces for seamless add-to-cart functionality on cached shop pages.
• Smart Exclusions: Robust settings to exclude specific post types or individual pages from being cached.
• Admin Bypass: Logged-in administrators and editors automatically bypass the static cache to ensure they always see live, real-time changes.
• Premium Admin Dashboard: Modern interface with real-time status indicators and colored “Generated” badges directly in your Post/Page lists.
• Multi-Layer Serving: Employs high-performance Apache rewrite rules for maximum speed, with a reliable PHP fallback for other server environments.
• WordPress Multisite Compatible: Fully supports multisite networks with individual static cache directories and rules for each subsite.

Configuration

1. Dashboard Overview: Navigate to Moon Static HTML > Dashboard.
2. Exclusions: Check any Post Types or Taxonomies (Categories/Tags) you want to exclude from the static cache under the “Manage Post Type Exclusions” and “Manage Category / Tag Exclusions” sections.
3. Nonce Auto Refresh: If you use AJAX forms or WooCommerce in long-running admin sessions, enable “Nonce Auto Refresh” and select an interval.
4. CPT Listing Page Mapping: If you use custom post types, map them to their corresponding archive/listing page URLs (e.g., set portfolio to /portfolio-list/). This ensures the listing page is regenerated when a new item is published.
5. Save Settings: Click the Save All Settings button at the bottom of the page to apply your configuration.
6. Enable High Performance: Click the Update .htaccess Rules button to deploy the Apache rewrite rules, enabling ultra-fast direct serving of static files.
7. Generate Site: Finally, click Start Generation or Generate All to build your initial static HTML cache.