The WordPress Settings menu is used to configure your WordPress installation, from your website’s Title and Tagline to its permalink structure, and more.
This WordPress Settings Video Tutorial covers the following topics:
- The difference between feature settings and the WordPress Settings menu
- WordPress General Settings options.
- How to adjust the WordPress Writing Settings.
- How to control what content displays on your home page: how to set a static page as your WordPress homepage.
- How to manage comment settings in WordPress.
- Specifying default image sizes in WordPress.
- What the WordPress permalink structure is, and how to change it.
WordPress settings change the way search engines, site visitors, your users and you interact with and manage the content on your website. The General tab under the settings panel lets you configure the most basic settings in WordPress–your Site Title and Tagline, the WordPress URL and Site URL, the site admin email address, if the site should have open registration and how dates and times appear on your site.
The “General Settings” tab allows you to control the most basic settings in WordPress.
The Writing tab has global settings for how post content should display by default. These settings include emoticon conversion, what Default Post Category to use, how a post should be formatted by default, the Press This bookmarklet feature, and Post via e-mail settings.
The Reading tab is where you can configure what your homepage displays. Any website which isn’t a blog will want to set a static page as their WordPress homepage. By default your WordPress homepage will be a list of your posts. This tab also allows you to configure how many posts you want to display on one page of your blog–as well as other syndication feeds. In addition to that, you can also specify if you want your blog page to display the full post, or just an excerpt of the post***, and whether or not you want people to discover your site on search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo.
The Discussion tab specifics how your WordPress site manages posts that get shared on other sites and comments. This includes pingback and trackback settings, comment moderation settings, comment notifications and Avatar display options.
Media Settings allows you to specify default image sizes for **images you upload to the media library, and if uploaded images should be organized into month and year based folders on your server.
Permalink Settings allow you to create a custom URL hierarchy and permalink structure for the pages and posts on your WordPress website. This can improve the aesthetics, usability and forward compatibility of your links displayed in the browser.
The WordPress Permalink Settings tab allows you to set a custom permalink structure for your posts and pages.
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