Auto Push to Static WordPress: Cron Schedule or Post Update

One of the most common critiques of static sites goes something like this:

“Static is fast and secure, sure… but what about dynamic content? What if my content changes often?”

Fair question. In traditional setups, static sites are built once and served as-is. That’s great for stability, but not ideal when your content changes by the minute—or even by the hour.

Which is exactly why we built Post Mapping inside Headless Hostman.

The Static Limitation (and How We Fixed It)

In most static site generators or platforms, when you want to update a piece of content—even a single sentence—you have to rebuild and redeploy the entire site. That’s slow, inefficient, and impractical for sites that need frequent updates.

At Headless Hostman, we flipped the script.

With our Post Mapping system, you can schedule automated static updates as often as you need—without pushing your entire site every time.

Push Specific Content at Specific Intervals

Instead of rebuilding everything, you can tell Headless Hostman to publish specific posts/pages:

• Every Minute— great for real-time listings, stock alerts, or timed announcements.
• Every 5 Minutes — for fast-changing news sections or featured updates.
• Hourly — perfect for event boards or promotional offers.
• Daily — great for blogs, SEO content, or publishing pipelines that change regularly.

Each of these can be set using our intuitive Post Mapping interface. No code. No dev team needed. Just select your post types or individual entries and choose the interval you want.

Or, Push a Single Page Manually

And of course, if you don’t want to do it automatically you can just head into the individual page/post and push only it to Static.

Why It Matters

Traditionally, if you needed your content to feel “alive,” static wasn’t an option. But with Headless Hostman, you get both:

• The security and speed of static
• The freshness and flexibility of dynamic updates

All without installing a single cache-clearing plugin, dealing with cron jobs, or waiting around for a slow rebuild.

And the Best Part? It’s Still 100% Static

Even with frequent pushes, your public-facing site remains fully static. Each update is compiled, sanitized, and deployed across our global CDN. No real-time database connections. No exposed PHP. No fragile endpoints.

It’s dynamic behavior—backed by static infrastructure.

Set It and Forget It

With Post Mapping, your scheduled pushes happen automatically. Once you assign timing rules to your post types or pages, Headless Hostman takes care of the rest.

You never have to worry about logging in, running a manual deploy, or wondering if your site is up-to-date. It just works.

Case Study: We Built It Because We Use it

We recently unveiled our Platform Status page, but quickly ran into a dilemma: it needed to update every day automatically.

And we didn’t want to have to remember to manually refresh this page.

With the Post Mapping, we set it to update daily.

Obviously, if there is an incident on the platform we will modify the content and push the page manually.

Ready for the Power of Smart Static WordPress?

If you’ve been holding back from static because of content freshness—you don’t have to anymore.

Headless Hostman gives you a future-proof publishing system that’s fast, secure, and flexible enough for modern websites that change all the time.

Set your update intervals. Stay in WordPress. Push what matters. And rest easy knowing your content—and your visitors—are always getting the best version of your site.