roots-wordpress

There is tooling: take a look at roots.cx It has a workflow for using WordPress as a backend to manage a static site (generated by roots): https://github.com/carrot/roots-wordpress In addition, it's not that hard to come up with a home-grown workflow using WordPress's REST API (now a plugin but soon to become part of the core application). Middleman has native support for generated static pages from a JSON API (dynamic "proxy pages") and it's not hard to make a Jekyll plugin to do the same.

I highly recommend you check out roots (http://roots.cx/), a static site generator that lets you use a CMS like Wordpress to manage content and then pulls data from its API to build a static site. We've set up a full featured publishing workflow by coupling this with outgoing webhooks on Wordpress using hookpress and a great static hosting platform called Netlify that accepts incoming webhooks to trigger new static builds with roots when content is updated on Wordpress. So far it's been fantastic for us. We enjoy all the benefits of a static site: low hosting costs, simple infrastructure, highly scalable, and virtually zero downtime, while still giving our users a familiar CMS interface. We're are using a similar workflow to power our site (http://carrot.is/) but instead of Wordpress we're using Contentful, an API-based CMS with webhook s