First export

Open Settings → Permalinks. Choose Post name (or any structure other than Plain) and click Save Changes. Even if you already use Post name, clicking Save is cheap insurance — it flushes rewrite rules.

Open Settings → Tivlo Static Site.

On Plugin Settings, look at the defaults. For a typical blog or brochure site they are already what you want:

• Enable static generation — on
• Serve static HTML directly — on
• Skip static delivery for logged-in users — on
• Content types — Post, Page
• Site Pages — Front Page, Posts Page, Date Archives, Author Archives, 404 Page

You can leave every chip alone on day one. Curiosity is allowed later.

Click Save Settings if you changed anything. Saving does not reprint pages that already exist. First time around, there usually are none, so this is just “lock in the rules.”

Switch to the Build Console tab and click Full Rebuild. Optionally enable Clear existing static files before running a full rebuild if you want a clean first export (useful if you already clicked around).

Wait until Queue Pending Tasks is 0. On a local or quiet site, WP-Cron may be napping. Click Process Queue Now a few times until the queue drains. Keep the Build tab open — watching the log is oddly satisfying, like a progress bar you are allowed to stare at.

Open a published page in a private window. In DevTools → Network, click the document request (the HTML, not an image) and look at Response Headers:

X-Tivlo-Static: hit

That sticker means Tivlo served the file, not a full PHP cook.