Convert a WordPress site to a static website hosted on AWS S3

In this tutorial, I will show you how you can convert your WordPress website to a static website and how you can host it on AWS S3.

Step 1: Generate static files using Scrapy

I created a GitHub repository which helps you to convert your local running website to static resource files. The GitHub repository is found here. The README file explains how you can create the configuration and how you can run Scrapy and all the other steps described in this article.

Step 2: Upload to AWS S3

Make sure that you have an AWS S3 bucket which is configured for hosting websites. Then, upload all your static resources to this folder.

Step 3: Invalidate caches (optional)

If you have Amazon CloudFront for distributing your website, make sure to invalidate all the caches.

Conclusion (TL;DR)

It is fairly easy to setup a pipeline which converts your local WordPress website to a static website.