I wanted a quick-and-dirty solution to archiving our old LibGuides site 
a few months ago.

wget was my first port of call also. I don't have good notes as to what 
went wrong, but I ended up using httrack:
http://www.httrack.com/

It basically worked out of the box.

HTH,
Alex


On 10/06/2014 09:44 AM, Eric Phetteplace wrote:
> Hey C4L,
>
> If I wanted to archive a Wordpress site, how would I do so?
>
> More elaborate: our library recently got a "donation" of a remote Wordpress
> site, sitting one directory below the root of a domain. I can tell from a
> cursory look it's a Wordpress site. We've never archived a website before
> and I don't need to do anything fancy, just download a workable copy as it
> presently exists. I've heard this can be as simple as:
>
> wget -m $PATH_TO_SITE_ROOT
>
> but that's not working as planned. Wget's convert links feature doesn't
> seem to be quite so simple; if I download the site, disable my network
> connection, then host locally, some 20 resources aren't available. Mostly
> images which are under the same directory. Possibly loaded via AJAX. Advice?
>
> (Anticipated) pertinent advice: I shouldn't be doing this at all, we should
> outsource to Archive-It or similar, who actually know what they're doing.
> Yes/no?
>
> Best,
> Eric