Overview

Video library

Each lesson is a screen recording with voiceover, plus written notes so you can watch or skim. If you learn faster when someone else clicks Publish, this tab is for you.

Recordings are produced from the scripts in the website repo (docs/tivlo-ssg-video-scripts/). Until a video is published, the player on that page is a placeholder — the notes underneath are still the real lesson.

Two ways to use Tivlo SSG

Same WordPress host — anonymous visitors get static HTML from this install (X-Tivlo-Static: hit). That is the usual “my site feels snappier” win. No extra host. No AWS required.

Local WordPress, static hosting — you edit on your computer, export HTML, and upload wp-content/tivlo-static/ to any host that can serve files. Media and CSS/JS go through CloudFront + S3 so WordPress does not need to stay online. Your laptop can nap. The brochure cannot.

Getting Started

Getting Started — end-user walkthroughs in the WordPress admin. Watch these first if you have not run a Full Rebuild yet.

Install and first rebuild

Activate Tivlo Static Site and export the site for the first time.

Verify static serving

Logged-out check, X-Tivlo-Static, and files on disk.

Edit a post — visitors see it

Publish as usual; the queue rebuilds HTML in the background.

Tour the three admin tabs

Plugin Settings, Build Console, and CDN & Media Sync.

Performance

Performance — why a file from disk is faster than cooking PHP, then a Lighthouse comparison on a demo site. We do not invent scores. The recording shows whatever the demo actually measures.

Why static HTML is faster

Skip the PHP bootstrap for anonymous page views — what still stays dynamic.

Lighthouse before and after

Same demo URL, logged out: live WordPress vs X-Tivlo-Static hit.

Deploy

Deploy — run WordPress locally and put the public site on hosting that does not need PHP.

Local WordPress, static hosting

Public Base URL, Full Rebuild, upload tivlo-static/ to any static host.

Media and CSS on S3

Keep images and assets working when WordPress is offline.

Deep Dives

Deep Dives — when you are ready for “why did my category page stay old?” and friends.

Incremental rebuilds

Related routes, comments, theme and menu changes.

How static serving decides

Headers, cookies, query strings, and 404.html.

What to export

Post types, archives, path exclusions, WooCommerce pages.

Fix a failed rebuild

Plain permalinks, loopback timeouts, a stuck queue.

Multisite networks

Network activate, bootstrap, per-site folders.

CloudFront in front of live WordPress

CDN Scenario 1 — no S3, origin is your public site.