# Static Publisher Plugin

The Static Publisher WordPress plugin is the admin and control-plane half of the product. It provides configuration screens, status views, diagnostics, queueing, runtime file management, and log visibility, but it does not execute shell commands from PHP. Instead, it writes runtime JSON files that an external Node.js exporter processes.

This design aligns the plugin with WordPress-friendly operational boundaries while still supporting enterprise publishing workflows. The separately installed exporter performs rendered-site crawling, URL rewriting, deployment to S3, and CloudFront invalidation. That means the distributed plugin ZIP can stay focused on WordPress admin concerns, while the execution engine lives on the machine that is actually responsible for automation and deployment.

The complete full crawl, deploy, and CloudFront invalidation workflow remains available in Free mode. Incremental publishing and targeted content sync require an active Professional or Agency subscription. Targeted sync is scheduler-driven, requires a verified normal publish baseline, reconciles affected listing and archive surfaces, and can optionally track a same-origin path-based WordPress multisite network when the plugin is network-activated.

See the plugin readme and product documentation for runtime requirements, exporter installation, baseline safety, and scheduler details.