WordPress Settings: How to Configure Your Website

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WordPress Settings: How to Configure Your Website
When you first start using WordPress , you’ll typically want to jump right into creating content. However, before you do that, we recommend configuring your WordPress settings because they lay the foundation for how your website will function.

Familiarizing yourself with these options will help you get the most out of the platform. Plus, you’ll be able to configure your site to work exactly the way you want it to.

In this post, we’ll explore the Settings area of ​​your WordPress dashboard, screen by screen.

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1. The general screen
This first section of WordPress settings is also the simplest. Here you can hungary phone number data and edit basic information about your site. The first two fields allow you to set a title and tagline for your site:

The WordPress General Settings Screen 1.
It is important to remember to customize your site's tagline: a smart approach is to include a primary keyword .

Next, you will find two URLs :

The general settings screen, 2.
The first, your WordPress address , is where your site actually lives, while the site address is the URL that people can use to visit your site. In almost all cases, these will (and should) be the same . However, in rare situations, you may need to change one or both URLs .

Next is the admin email address. It is crucial that this address is correct as this is where important information about your site is sent. Next, you will see an option called Sign Up :

The general settings screen, 3.
Enabling this option will allow anyone who visits your site to create an account. This helps you easily set up your membership site. If you check this box, also make sure that the new user's default role is set to Subscriber . This way, new members will only be given basic permissions.

The rest of the settings on the General tab are pretty self-explanatory:

The general settings screen, 4.
You can select a default language and time zone for your site, and choose the format in which dates and times will be displayed. Finally, you can choose which day the week starts on, which will affect calendar-related features (such as widgets ) .

2. The writing screen
As the name suggests, the next set of WordPress settings is all about writing blog posts . There are a few options:

The writing settings screen, 1.
You can select a default category for your posts, which is useful if most of your content is about a single topic. Most users will leave the default post format set to Standard , but you may want to change this if a lot of your content is media-based rather than text-based.

Below are the details for one of WordPress’s lesser-known features: the ability to create posts via email and publish them directly to your site. This can be useful if you publish a lot of simple content and don’t want to log into your dashboard every time.