How to convert our site from WordPress to HTML

The site where you are reading this article has already been WordPress. Today it is pure HTML — and this is the honest summary of how we did it, what we won and where a tailored backoffice enters the solution.

The starting point

The 1000sites.pt was in WordPress with the Brizy builder. It worked, but as most of the WordPress sites accumulated weight: database to generate each page, plugins to keep updated, and pages built by a visual editor that keeps the layout in its own format.

The initial inventory gave us the real dimension of the project: about 40 pages, more than 70 blog articles and more than a thousand image annexes.

The conversion process

Brizy keeps the design of each page encoded within the metadata of WordPress. Instead of copying HTML by hand, we write scripts to do the heavy work:

  • Full export of XML and analysis of all content
  • Brizy data decoding to reconstruct each page in clean HTML
  • Discharge of all images and sources to be served locally
  • CSS reconstruction with the same design tokens — colors, fonts and spacings
  • SEO preserved: titles, descriptions, canonical, Open Graph and sitemap

The result

The site was 100% self-contained: 34 pages and 73 articles in static HTML, 235 local images, sources served without going to Google, zero calls to CDNs and zero dependency on WordPress, Brizy or databases.

In practice this means almost instantaneous loading, much less attack surface and a site that may be years without being touched — no update of WordPress, a plugin or the theme will burst it, because there are no longer. And always remains the same as fast.

"But what about the articles? How do I edit them?"

It is the first question that any website owner asks — and the answer is backoffice. For sites that publish regularly, we deliver a custom-made PHP panel to create, edit and publish articles: title, text, images and description for SEO.

The difference for wp-admin is that backoffice exists only to manage content — the public website remains static, fast and secure, because the management area is separated and protected by login.

And when you need to change something that is not an article — a new section, texts or images on another page, a design adjustment — just a request for support hours. No mandatory maintenance contracts.

When does this make sense to your website?

If your website is institutional, blog or portfolio, and WordPress has become a source of slowness, broken plugins and maintenance costs, conversion compensates. If it has a complex WooCommerce store or heavy dynamic functionalities, probably not — and in this case we tell it openly.

Learn more about the service PDF conversion to HTML with backoffice or play a free analysis of your website.