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In this final video of our WordPress training series,
We’ll be discussing the “settings” panel. You might be thinking,
"All these other things I've been doing so far at the Administration Screens
have involved 'Settings'. Are these 'Settings' any different?"
Well, "Yes." All the settings you've encountered in the other Administration Screens
have dealt with very specific parts of your site,
or have been of limited scope only applying to one page, for example.
In the Settings Administration Screen you’ll have access to all of the settings
which determine how your website behaves, and, how you and the rest of the world interact
with your website. The “General” settings allow you to
change your website’s title, tagline, and web address.
In the public view, the title and the tagline appear in your website’s header.
The title also appears on your admin tool bar.
You can also change the administrator email. This email is used by WordPress to send automated
notifications such as new user registrations, and new comment
notices. You choose whether or not your website
can have open registration, and a default role for these new members.
If you decide to have open registration I would recommend using “Subscriber” as
the default user role since subscribers cannot edit or publish content.
Next, you can set your date format, your time format, and choose your week starting
day. Remember to save any changes you’ve made
before moving on. The “writing” subpanel
controls the edit window that allows you to create new post and pages.
You can set the size of the editing window. The sizes are based on lines,
I find that 40 lines works for me, but change this to whatever works for you.
But before I make this change I want to show you the difference.
I’m going to open the create new post page in a new window.
As you can see, the input box is not that big
and I definitely could use more space. If I go back to the settings page
and set the number of lines to 40 and save my changes,
you will see the box is now bigger. Feel free to change the numbers around
until you find something that works for you. You can also set your formatting.
Assign a default category from the categories you currently have.
The default post format and the default link category.
In this sub panel you can also add the “Press This” bookmarklet to your bookmarks.
As you might remember from the tools video, the “Press This” bookmarklet allows you
to quickly publish content that you find online.
You can also post to your WordPress website via email.
Simply enter your email account details here, and WordPress will periodically check for
new emails sent to this account. The subject line of the email will become
the post’s title, and the body of the email will become the
content. Be sure that this is a secure email account
because any email that is received at this account
will become a new post on your website. WordPress even generates a random set of strings
if you want to use them as your email address. You can also set the default category
for posts that you publish via email. If you plan to post content from a desktop
blogging application or a mobile WordPress app
then you need to enable the Atom, and XML-RPC publishing protocols.
Lastly, you can chose to notify one or more update services
each time you publish new content. The “reading” subpanel
contains options of how your content is displayed. You can set your “front page”
meaning the home page of your WordPress website. By default, your blog page is you home page.
But you can change it to any other static page that you’ve created,
by selecting it from the drop menu. You can then select which page you want blog
to appear in. If you don’t want a blog,
just leave the post page drop down menu alone. To show you how all this works
I’ll chose a page I created called “Home” for my font page,
and a page called “Blog” for my posts page.
If I save my changes and head over to the homepage of my website,
you will see that my home page no longer contains my blog post articles.
Instead, you will see my new homepage. If I click on the “Blog” page,
which I’ve added to my custom navigation menu,
you will see my post articles in the familiar blog format.
You can also choose how many post will appear per blog pages,
and how many post will appear in your RSS feed.
For your RSS feed you can choose to display
the full text of the article, or just a summary.
This will require readers to visit your website to read the full article.
The “discussion” subpanel, as you saw in an earlier video,
controls the options for your comments, and pingbacks.
Allowing trackbacks means that a trackback link will be posted
in the comments section of your post, to websites that have linked to that particular
article. You can set your comment email preferences,
filters for moderation, and decide whether or not users can use avatars.
The “Media” Sub Panel allows you to set the default dimensions
of the different sizes an uploaded image is converted to.
As you saw in the embedding video of this training series,
you can enable auto-embeds which are an easy way to embed video into
your site. And you can set the maximum width and height
size for the embedded video.
And lastly, you can set where your uploaded files are stored
and whether or not you to organize them by month and year.
The privacy subpanel simply determines whether your website can
be found by search engines like Google, Yahoo, or Bing.
Or you can block them all so no one can find you through search engines.
The Permalinks settings simply determine the URL format of you pages
and posts. By default WordPress uses a question mark
and an ID number as the URL. But you have the option to use more friendly
URLs to make them more optimized for search engines,
and make them easy to remember for your users. One format that most internet marketers,
and SEO experts agree on, is to use post name by itself.
The custom structure field allows you to enter the format in which
you want WordPress to create the URL for your posts.
To change the permalink to post name, you can click this option, or type /%postname%/
in the custom structure field. WordPress also gives you the option to
change the category base “slug” and the Tag base “slug”
These are the slugs of the individual category and tag pages.
By default WordPress uses the word “category” as the slug for category pages
In the example given by WordPress, you can see that if you change the category
base to “topics” your URL to the uncategorized category page
will read your website’s URL followed by /topics/uncategorized”
Replacing the word “category” with the word “topics”
And that is all! We’ve now gone through all the major functions
and features in the WordPress administration.
By now you should be able to create and edit your website’s content with no problem
This wraps up, Marketing Unfolded’s WordPress Training series
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