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Agreed, if you stick with the twenty* themes and keep it simple, you can get pretty far with very little maintenance. For simple sites, especially where we don't do comments, I've started using Simply Static though to just generate pre-rendered pages. All the benefits of static site builder with all the conveniences of a CMS.
I've had it on my TODO-list to try out that plugin, thanks for reminding me! How many sites have you tested it on, have you had any issues? I'm gonna play around with it now but what I'm mostly concerned about now is how you manage the site if you point the web server to the static directory. I made a prototype at one point where you have your actual WP site in a subdirectory, like example.com/wordpress, which is IP…
- WP moved to subdirectory (WP home and siteurl changed in DB)
- Static site served normally from (and generated to) webroot
Just needed to add sitemaps and robots.txt to the config to be included. Workflow is super smooth. Login to example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/, view your changes at example.com/wordpress and when you're happy, publish the site through the plugin.
Curious to see what kinds of issues I might be running into later on (this was just a quick test).