For businesses tired of WordPress upkeep
Most of a maintenance bill is patching installed software. Plain files have none to patch.
A report on your own site, showing what it runs on and which pages bring you work today.
By Reece Rainer
spareday, Newcastle NSW
Last updated
13 September 2026
Read time
2 minutes
Since it went live my phone hasn’t stopped ringing.
He created a stunning website for us that captures and nurtures leads with an automated email marketing system, which has filled a huge gap in the business and saved a lot of time (and money!).
Reece has been generous, reliable and knowledgeable in creating an online presence for our sporting club. He is good to work with and has good technical abilities.
Moving a WordPress site to plain files removes the part of a website that needs constant attention, because there is no longer any installed software to update.
It suits some businesses very well and others badly, and the deciding question is how often the site genuinely changes.
The monthly patching disappears, the site gets faster, and the ways a site normally gets broken into stop applying. Nothing about how it looks has to change at all.
A static site is the same pages served as finished files, so a visitor sees no difference and the work behind it changes completely.
The ability to log in and change any word on any page yourself, unless something is put in its place. That is the real trade and it is worth being honest about.
For a business that edits its site weekly this matters a great deal. For one that changed it twice last year it matters very little.
Every address that exists today either survives or is pointed somewhere sensible. Done properly, a move costs nothing in search.
Rankings are lost in a migration by dropping addresses quietly, not by changing what a site is built on.
Related reading from us: having a site built.
To remove the monthly patching. Plain files have no core, theme or plugins to update, which is what most maintenance fees are actually paying for.
Yes, but through a different route rather than the WordPress dashboard. If you edit weekly, that difference matters and is worth testing first.
Yes. Forms, bookings and payments are handled by services rather than by the site, so they carry across.
Not if every address that exists today is either kept or pointed somewhere sensible. Rankings are lost by dropping pages quietly, not by changing platform.
One monthly fee covering everything, month to month, no lock-in. The number depends on the business and gets given on the call.