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I have several old Wordpress sites that are now only alive for archival purposes. I've been trying to migrate off of Wordpress since I don't like having yet another system to manage. Luckily for archival type sites, I don't need the whole backend of Wordpress since I don't actually need any CRUD functionality. (Well I need the R part)
I have several old Wordpress sites lying around that I would like to archive but not maintain anymore. Since I don't intend to create any more content on these sites, we can use tools like `wget` to scrape an existing site and provide a somewhat *read-only* copy of it. I say read-only not because we can't edit it, but because it's not in the original source format of the website.
Solution... wget comes to the [rescue](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/538865/how-do-you-archive-an-entire-website-for-offline-viewing#538878)
There have been several tackles to the problem:
User [chuckg](https://stackoverflow.com/users/63193/chuckg) initially suggested to run `wget -m -k -K -E https://url/of/web/site` to get a full offline copy of a website.
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/538865/how-do-you-archive-an-entire-website-for-offline-viewing#538878
- https://letswp.io/download-an-entire-website-wget-windows/
And ultimately after consulting these resources I've came to the following command:
[Joel Gillman](https://stackoverflow.com/users/916604/jgillman) and [Firsh](https://letswp.io/download-an-entire-website-wget-windows/) wrote about their commands and now our command has expanded to:
```bash
wget --mirror \
--convert-links \
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https://url/of/web/site
```
There are other solutions in that stack overflow post, but something about the simplicity of `wget` appealed to me.
There were other solutions in that stack overflow post, but something about the simplicity of `wget` appealed to me.
[Check out this now Wordpress free site of mine!](https://sentenceworthy.com)
[Example site I archived with this.](https://sentenceworthy.com)