There have been a number of plugins that turn a Wordpress/other website platform site into a static site.
So you make dev.yourdomain.example.com and block it from basically everything, client logs in the there and does the needful, and then when done hits "publish" and the plugin writes out a static site to example.com
1. How many of them migrate tricky features like featured images?
2. How many of them preserve existing URLs and GUIDs?
3. How many of them preserve the default RSS feed URL (Hugo's default is different from WordPress)?
4. How many of them preserve embedded Google Maps?
These are several issues that forced me to write `wp2hugo` for migrating my personal website.
Commenting to follow up on this...at some point. I started such a tool, using Punct [1] as the markup environment (CommonMark with ability to generate custom elements using inline Racket code, but could just as well be plain CommonMark + metadata).
That's what I do, and he happens to be a machinist and welder. The static site is generated from Local WP, pushed to a GitHub repo, which is connected to Cloudflare Pages, which hosts it for free with SSL. I even set up a website monitor in GitHub Actions, but still have a separate website monitoring service with alerts. All for free.
When I worked with Drupal years ago(i made good money specializing in Drupal for more than a decade) I remember it having a caching module that generated static html page of every content page and served it instead of rendering anew. Simple tech.
I like Hugo, Gatsby, Ghost, Jekyll, and alike, but ever try to explain how to manage it to a machinist?
If there is one out there, please let me know.