Publish your website on the Static Web - also known as Web 1.1 or the Readers’ Web.
With this plugin, your visitors can download and keep pages from your site on their desktops — helping extend engagement and retention.
The Static Web is a new vision for a more interconnected web. You can learn more about it
here.
How this plugin works
On each post and page, the plugin embeds a small block of JSON metadata. This data helps compatible apps and parsers generate reader-friendly, static versions of your content — versions that can visually link to any other page on the Web.
Background
This project is inspired by Ted Nelson’s Project Xanadu, re-imagining the Web as a network of visibly connected documents.
Current support
The new formats introduced by this plugin are currently supported by:
LZ Desktop
— a standalone app for reading and exploring Web 1.1 content.
LZ Desktop Helper
— a Chrome extension that integrates the Static Web with your browser.
Typically, you use the browser extension to download a web page and save it directly to the LZ Desktop app.
Looking ahead
More apps — especially reader apps, and eventually browsers — will be able to support these new data formats in the future.
Setting up Static Web Publisher is quick and easy:
- Go to Plugins in your WordPress dashboard and click Add New.
- In the "Search plugins..." field, type Static Web Publisher.
- Find the plugin in the search results, hover over it, and click Install.
- Once installed, click Activate.
- Go to the plugin's Settings page and configure top and bottom panels (optional).
4.0.0
Introduced the embedded HDOC format.\
The plugin no longer creates additional endpoints for serving HDOCs.\
Support for custom URL schemes has been removed.
3.0.0
Big changes in HDOC format.
2.1.0
It's now possible to order comments with 'order' parameter. Values: asc, desc. Title for comments section and 'no comments yet' message can now be specified in the Settings.
2.0.0
Color configuration of panels was removed from Settings.
Now a link to the original page can be added to the panels. The same link was removed from the bottom of each page.
Comments are now exported in JSON format.
1.2.0
The site name and link are automatically added to the HDOC top panel after the plugin is activated. This ensures the top panel is populated even if you don’t configure panels after installation.
1.1.1
Bugfix
1.1.0
- Download buttons are now optional and are not visible by default.
- An alternate link is added to the head of each page. This way sw:// and sws:// links can be found on the page using a browser extension. That's why download buttons are now optional.
- Minor improvements
= 1.0 =\
Initial release.