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Comparing MakeStaticSite with WayBack Machine Downloader JS
Now that the development of MakeStaticSite has reached some maturity, it might be interesting and instructive to compare it with other offerings that enable websites (or portions) to be downloaded from the Wayback Machine, especially at the Internet Archive. The motivation for such functionality remains strong, both in view of the risk to Wayback Machine…
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Case study: MakeStaticSite and Pagefind
A perhaps surprising and counter-intuitive application of MakeStaticSite has been to enable site search for a dynamic database-driven site (not static, like this one). by leveraging Pagefind, likewise designed for use in Jamstack scenarios. Background: WordPress Site Search A site search facility was needed for Connect2Dialogue, a self-hosted WordPress site using PHP and MySQL to…