Question I want to convert from Elementor pages to html

[Colonel36]

Server operating system version

Ubuntu 20.04

Plesk version and microupdate number

Plesk Obsidian18.0.57

I would greatly appreciate any advice or links, as I've just spent four hours with both Gemini and Chapgpt and failed miserable.
Many thanks. I have Plesk and Obsidian

 

[Kaspar]

Could you be more specific on what your objective is and what you've tried so far?

 

[Colonel36]

I think I've tried everything Gemini and Chatgpt suggested. I tried a plugin first simply static. It worked okay, but there were always permission problems and 403s. And a host of other so called solutions I honestly can't remember. Do this, do that, and none of it worked. All I want to do is convert my existing pages in Wordpress and Elementor to html and classic editor. I have over 3000, otherwise I'd just do it manually.

 

[scsa20]

First, it doesn't matter what version of Plesk you're using as this isn't a Plesk thing, it's a WordPress and a plugin thing so not sure how many people that will be able to properly help you. You're better off asking in the WordPress Forums or joining Elementor's Community.

Second, AI can only do so much, they want to help but most of the time they're spit balling solutions depends on how you word your request. I think the only AI I trust (thus far) is Grok after some tests (using Export model, it actually goes out and compiles data from the internet and provides sources).

I took a look around and there's no automatic way to convert all the pages from Elementor to Gutenberg (WordPress Native) and is a full manual process.

Now, if you're trying to remove WordPress completely and just want static HTML and CSS, you would not only need to export out all the pages, you would also make sure you remove any kind of URL rewrites in .htaccess and/or Nginix configs as that will cause problems when deploying the static pages since it's going to try to look for the php pages when you've deleted the files.

Here's the responses I got from Grok about doing both ways (mind you the part about converting to static HTML/CSS does not include changes to the server side, no AI would include it since it's an after thought either way and is directly answering the question.): https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMw_cd46db8b-5711-4691-a01c-8e5c8d181d6e

 

[Colonel36]

Hi. Thanks for the support and help. I resorted to doing it all manually and have completed the job. Thanks again.