I just tried generating some static pages and deploying it to cloudflare pages with this wordpress installation and while it seemed successful (at least from the publishing point of view) it made it difficult to work with some of the plugins that make things convenient.
The Google SiteKit plugin especially. For some reason it refuses to use a custom domain and insists on using the current site’s url as the domain for connecting with Google analytics. So that means I can’t really host things local and then generate from local to static without some janky setup like having the hosts file for this domain to point locally.
In any case, I think this tunnel plus cloudflare optimizations should be good enough. I don’t think it would be always online though and with me tinkering with the server every now and then would mean this blog would go down along with it.
Then again I did note before that this is firstly an experiment, and secondly really just a staging area for my thoughts that I want to immediately note down. The ones I’d really want to prepare for would then go get published at the hackworkplay.com or life.beyondrails.com blogs instead.
