Preserve Digital Ohio has moved off of WordPress and now runs as a static website. The pages you are reading are the same ones you saw before — same content, same look and feel — but they are now served as plain HTML files rather than rendered on demand by a database-backed CMS.
The reasons for the change line up well with the mission of the project itself. A static site has a dramatically smaller attack surface: there is no admin login, no database, no plugin ecosystem to monitor for vulnerabilities, and no scheduled patching cycle. It is also substantially easier to maintain — the site can be hosted on any ordinary web server with no special software, and routine upkeep is nearly zero.
Just as importantly, a static site is better suited to long-term digital preservation. The files are self-contained, portable, and easy to archive or migrate to a new host. That means the resources collected here can remain available and trustworthy for the people and institutions that rely on them, well into the future.