wp2static VS Kirby

Download and Install WP2Static Plugin

> It is not actually that hard to run Wordpress securely. Stick to supported plugins and themes, and install security patches quickly when they are released.

Depending on your site's functionality, it may also be possible to run a static WP site:

* https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/

* https://wp2static.com

You do all your regular updates via the CMS, but, instead of putting the dynamic site on the public Internet, you generate static files and point your public web server's HTML rootdir at those.

Also, for a bit more complex although richer in features workflow, you might try Wordpress with the Block Editor (or any page builder like Elementor) and the [WP2Static](https://github.com/WP2Static/wp2static) plugin, which allows you to turn a Wordpress site into a static one!

The closest "free" option I can think of is Oracle Cloud, but /r/oraclecloud shows plenty of horror stories in registration and maintaining an instance. If you don't actually need interactive features, WP2Static on your local instance to be deployed to Cloudflare Pages might work.

> Most WP sites should be static sites.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/

https://wp2static.com

Depending on the site, ask yourself "How dynamic does it actually have to be?". Perhaps using the GUI to update the content, and then creating static files and serving those may be an option:

* https://wp2static.com

You could also use WordPress as a SSG with the WP2Static plugin — https://github.com/WP2Static/wp2static/

What is wrong with using Wordpress? I believe now one can get Wordpress to have 'static site' capabilities these days [0]

[0] https://wp2static.com/

Not sure if this is what you’re after but give https://getkirby.com/ a try

Personally think https://getkirby.com is the entry to beat but I guess it’s just because I’m used to it and it works incredibly well for my use case.

Check out KirbyCMS. A PHP based files-only CMS. Can also be used as headless CMS. Works on most shared hosts and doesn't need a database. You'll have to do some basic PHP for the templates, though.

I guess it depends what you need to build. I used to use Wordpress for all my personal and client projects but I then moved to Kirby[0] and I couldn’t be happier.

But I think it highly depends on what kind of projects you work on.

[0] https://getkirby.com/

I can recommend Kirby (https://getkirby.com/), a flat file PHP CMS. It’s fast, has a panel to update data and can be hosted on any basically any PHP host. Just use the quite simple PHP-templates and add CSS & JS like you already know how to do. No need to complicate things.

PHP has a lot of top tier CMSes. IMHO bunch of them are even better than Statamic. Craft CMS (https://craftcms.com/) is a lot more mature database based CMS. Kirby (https://getkirby.com/) is better at flat-file and has a lot better admin interface. Twill (https://twillcms.com/) is better integrated in Laravel and is fully open-source. Statamic mostly feels like it's sitting besides Laravel and they call themselves Laravel based for marketing.