Current roadmap ideas

[leonstafford]

Quick outline to share with Viktor/put my thoughts on paper:

WP2Static

• clear out all GH issues
• replace URL detection with https://github.com/leonstafford/WordPressURLDetector (when complete)
• get all add-ons ready for release, some haven't had a release for long time, due to not being up to date with WP2Static core's addon API see task for idea
• merge features from older Static HTML Output project into this:
  • HTML parsing and modification (as option over current str replacements; HTML parser in John's Advanced Crawling Addon)
  • test suite with input/output HTML and CSS files are really helpful and should be brought in
  • (maybe) import the option to let browser client act as messaging queue to allow long running processes to be chopped up
• add a few more deployment add-ons for CLI/UI (Cloudflare Pages; GitHub: revisit 2 x older iterations and one 3rd party developed GH addon)
• decouple current UI and make core WP2Static a CLI-only project
• prepare for and submit to wp.org under wp2static slug (may need to lower min PHP compat), along with addons
• deployment script for wp.org and GitHub
• bring into core plugin, the stable parts of what John's been working on in Advanced Crawling Addon
• build WooCommerce -> Snipcart addon
• refresh Algolia search addon
• look into local static search options (if existing plugin is compatible, don't reinvent wheel)

Lokl

• build into the CLI wizard, simple flows to use vendor CLI SDKs to deploy, ie git, Netlify, Cloudflare, AWS, GAE, Azure.
• allow enabling Xdebug profiling for performance optimization (for any developers, including for WP2Static development)
• expand new templating system to allow for adding themes, plugins, sql imports, WP config adjustments, etc.
• when running via CLI wizard, can choose to replace parts of WP2Static workflow with optimized tools, ie highly parallel web scrapers to generate the static site, then let WP2Static keep processing (see https://appi.sh for alternative CLI based WP -> static site workflow)

WordPressURLDetector

• complete updating unit tests
• replace Sitemap detection/parsing functionality (Viktor had suggestions already;John had simple solution in Advanced Crawling Addon)

Static HTML Output

• keep repo up to date/tests passing, minor fixes if submitted/quick, but will be in maintenance mode only, bringing it's best featurs into WP2Static as configurable options

Simpler Static

• probably end of life it. Patrick Posner is refreshing Simply Static now. Only part I really like in it is the WP async tasks as an option, which we can consider as another queue processor for WP2Static