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As of April 2026, Static Site Exporter is a WordPress yaml plugin with 500 active installations and a 3.5/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 41K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Top alternative: SyntaxHighlighter Evolved: Yaml Brush.
the_content filter prior to export, allowing third-party plugins to modify the output)post_content to Markdownpost_meta and fields within the wp_posts table to YAML front matter for parsing by Jekyll_config.yml with all settings in the wp_options table_config.yml, pages, and _posts folder containing .md files for each post in the proper Jekyll naming convention| WordPress | 4.4+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
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