Your WordPress site, without the WordPress
Same design, same addresses, nothing left to update or hack. From £99, one-off, for most Hampshire brochure sites. Hosting from £9 a month, first 3 months free.
Instant price from your sitemap · Live in 3 to 5 working days · Full refund if it cannot be done
Type your website address. I read your sitemap, count the pages and show the price. No email needed.
Powered by sitemapcheck.app, a Rootscope tool. Nothing is changed on your site.
Why static
WordPress is a publishing system. It is brilliant when you publish. If your site is a few pages that describe what you do, with a phone number and a contact form, and it has not changed since the day it launched, WordPress is a liability you pay for every month: plugin updates, security patches, a database, PHP versions, and a login page for the whole internet to attack.
A static website is the same pages saved as plain files. There is nothing to update, nothing to log in to and nothing to hack. It loads faster, costs less to host and looks exactly as it does today.
No core, plugin or PHP updates. Ever.
No login, no database, no code running on the server.
Plain files from a CDN. No server thinking time.
£9 a month hosting, or host it anywhere for free.
Your design, your words, your addresses.
Is it right for you?
If that is you, a WordPress care plan keeps the site safe instead. The price box above tells you which group your site is in.
Pricing
Legal pages like privacy and cookie policies do not count. Up to 50 blog posts are included in every band. Prices exclude VAT.
Small
£99
Up to 10 pages
Most local brochure sites
Medium
£199
11 to 30 pages
Service businesses with a blog
Large
£349
31 to 75 pages
Older sites that grew over the years
Custom
from £499
75+ pages
Quoted individually within one working day
One-off. Paid when you order. Full refund if I cannot deliver a matching static copy.
What's included
Same design, same layout, same words. Visitors cannot tell the difference.
Everything in your media library that a page links to comes across.
Every URL stays the same, with redirects for anything that has to move, so your Google rankings carry over.
Page titles, meta descriptions and Open Graph tags are kept as they are.
Regenerated for the new site so search engines keep crawling it.
Images are compressed and served in modern formats. Smaller pages, faster loads.
I move the domain, set up the certificate and handle the cut-over. No downtime you would notice.
A sitemapcheck.app report proves every address that worked before still works after launch.
Files and database, handed to you as a download. Nothing is deleted until you say so.
Spot anything after launch and I fix it, no charge.
Add-ons
Your form keeps working through a form service. Messages arrive by email, with spam filtering.
Privacy-friendly analytics and a cookie notice where you need one.
A search box that works without a database.
The first 50 posts are included in every band.
Live within 2 working days instead of 3 to 5.
New phone number, updated opening hours, a page removed. Tell me and I will price it.
After launch
You pay nothing for hosting until the site has been live for three months. Cancel any time and take the files with you.
£9 per month
Fast managed hosting with a CDN, SSL, backups and a monthly check that every page still loads.
Set up Static Hosting →£19 per month
Everything in Static Hosting plus 6 small content changes a year. Send me the new text, it is live the same week.
Set up Hosting + Edits →Free
You get the finished site as a folder of files. Host it anywhere, or give it to your own developer.
Compare that with a WordPress care plan from £27.99 a month, which is what a WordPress site needs to stay safe. Need WordPress hosting instead? See managed hosting.
Two recent conversions
Two small business sites I converted recently. Both looked identical afterwards. Everything an attacker could use was gone.
| Site A 11 pages, last changed 2018 | Site B 7 pages, last changed 2015 | |
|---|---|---|
| Files on the server | 9,380 → 274 | 10,915 → 320 |
| Disk space | 260 MB → 14 MB | 187 MB → 3.4 MB |
| Files that can run code | about 2,750 → 0 | about 6,100 → 1 |
| Plugins to keep updated | 9 → 0 | 11 → 0 |
| Screens compared, old against new | 27 of 27 identical | 21 of 21 identical |
Site B's contact form had been bouncing messages since 2015. 1,926 of them. Nobody knew. The new form works, and I check the old one on every conversion.
How it works
For sites up to 30 pages. Larger sites take a little longer and I tell you how long when you order.
The price box above reads your sitemap and counts the pages. Pay the one-off price and I start.
Files and database, before anything changes. You get a copy.
Every page is rebuilt as plain HTML, with the same design and addresses, and compared against the original.
Click around. Anything that looks off gets fixed before launch.
SSL certificate, redirects and the cut-over. The old WordPress stays in place until you are happy.
A before-and-after check of every page, the backup, and 14 days of free fixes.
Local developer
Most of the sites I convert belong to businesses in Southampton, Portsmouth, Winchester, Basingstoke, Fareham, Eastleigh and Bournemouth: trades, clinics, consultants, cafes, clubs. The site was built years ago, the person who built it has moved on, and the owner just wants it to keep working without paying for a care plan they do not need.
The work is done remotely, so where you are does not change the price. But if you would rather talk it through in person first, I am local and happy to.
FAQ
Site down right now? Go to emergency WordPress support first. Want a new site instead? See WordPress builds.
Get started
Get your price at the top of the page, or send me the address and I will reply with a fixed price within one working day.
