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In the final video in this series, we’ll discuss how to configure the settings to optimize and get the most out of your WordPress site.
The Settings sub-panel contains all of the settings that determine how your site behaves, how you interact with your site, and how the rest of the world interacts with your site.
Covered in this video:
- General – Updating your site’s title and location, who may register an account at your blog, and how dates and times are calculated and displayed.
- Writing – Customizing the interface with which you write new posts.
- Reading – Deciding if you want posts—or a static page—to be displayed as your site’s homepage. How many posts are displayed at one time, and how to adjust RSS syndication feed features to determine how the information from your site is sent to a reader’s web browser or other applications.
- Setting up your site as a CMS – Choose whether to use a static page or a blog page for your home page.
- Discussion – Control the settings concerning incoming and outgoing comments, pingbacks and trackbacks, email notifications and the use of avatars.
- Media – Specify the maximum dimensions in pixels to use when inserting an image into the body of a post.
- Privacy – Choose whether you want your site to be indexed by search engines—like Google, Bing, or Yahoo!—or only to normal visitors.
- Permalinks – Create a custom URL structure for your permalinks and archives.
- Miscellaneous – File upload settings, link tracking and support for custom “hacks”.
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Custom permalink settings. You mention in the custom structure box that you can just add the post name or catagory so its better for search engines to find. Can you let me know exactly what you would type in that box if the post name or catagory was for example “diet” would it just be diet? or is there some kind of code to add to this.
Thanks
David
Hi David,
Actually, the Permalink panel allows you to determine the structure of the URLs for your posts and pages. You don’t enter any keywords or category names directly into this field. Rather, you use variables that will be automatically replaced with the actual category and/or post name.
The variables are identified with the percent sign before and after. As an example, %category% would be replaced by the actual category name for the post in question.
For more information about Permalinks, and a complete list of Structure Tags, visit this page on the WordPress Code:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
Hope this helps!
Shawn