All right, so let's go out and get started with the settings and take a look at what's involved in
that, if I click on settings or just mouse over it, you're going to see that I have a couple different
options here under the flyer that happens.
And if I just click on settings, I go to general by default.
But I can always access all of these.
I'll just click on settings and you can see again, I'm under general by default.
So when we first register the site, you saw that I had typed in a site title, which is what this is
up here, and then it gives me the option to add a title or a tag line.
Depends on how you want to look at it, not to paint anything that you're using.
It may or may not show this tag line, but you can always just type it in there.
The next options you have are the WordPress address and the site address.
Do not touch these unless you know what you're doing.
And you know there's a reason to edit this.
Do not touch this.
If you wanted to add an SSL to add some kind of encryption to your website.
This is where you go to maybe add the apps within up here, but you mess with anything up here and it'll
shut your website down and you'll need to have database access to be able to fix it.
So definitely stay away from that.
This is the main administrator's email address.
Don't really worry too much about that.
The membership anyone can register.
You really don't want anybody just registering for your website unless you are maybe selling items and
you want those store items to be something where somebody can register as a user so that they can retain
their information so that they come back, they can have all that shipping information already stored
in the site.
We'll take a look at users and where they get started later on.
But for the most part, you really don't want to allow just anybody to register for the website.
So I just keep that turned off.
WordPress keeps that off by default.
If you do have them register, you can set what their role is by default.
And we'll talk about roles as we get into users as well.
But you can say as a subscriber, they're basically just allowed access to the to the website, not
like all this backend stuff that you're seeing.
That's all administrator, but their information is then stored in our users that can be retained and
used later on.
So but let's say you wanted to have a team of people.
Maybe you wanted to have somebody who is just an author, maybe just someone who was just an editor
or contributor, whatever.
You can give them these different roles and I'm going to give them different access to the website.
Again, they may see different parts of the left hand menu up here.
Unless you're an administrator, you're not going to see plugins and appearance and different things
where they can edit the site.
They're pretty much going to be limited to like posts and pages and media, things like that, that
they can go and edit.
One important thing to change is your time zone.
I'd like to try to find out what that is because that does affect the time stamping on your blog posts.
Or maybe let's say you're going to have a blog post that's set to go live at a certain date and time.
You want to make sure that time zones correct.
If you want to post to the right time.
Now, whether or not you know you're UTC number doesn't really matter.
I just like to say in my city or at least the city that's nearest to me within my state.
So I'll say Detroit.
And that's just my timezone automatically.
Now, again, I talked about the blog format where they have the time stamp on it, I can show how that
displays.
I can choose if I wanted to do like, you know, the month, the day, the year or the day, the month,
the year, or have it be spelled out or just come up with some kind of custom layout.
Same thing with the time going to be lowercase p.m., uppercase p.m. or don't want to be like military
time.
Also the day of the week that it starts on, I can set it right here again is just kind of a blog posting,
not something I really mess with too much.
But for the most part, I keep all the stuff default.
I just maybe change the times on Letterman and maybe the tag line up here.
So I had save.
And let's go take a look at writing over here, so I've got a bunch of different categories I want and
just edited just to kind of fill this up by default, you're going to see uncategorized as being your
main default category.
These are the categories that get put into your post as you create them.
So let's say I had a news website and I had a sports section of business section, a lifestyle section.
I could then decide what category those blog posts went into.
And by default, if I just added a new article and then selected a category, WordPress would choose
one for me by default.
And that's what I would set right here.
How much you really have to do?
I really don't get at this too much posting via email.
You can actually just email the article and it would go into the website.
I'd never really use that.
I don't know anybody who does.
If it's something you want to.
This training video is not going to show you how to do that a little bit more time intensive and is
very specific to your server's information.
So I really don't want to get into that one right now.
Let's take a look at reading.
So here's where we can say, OK, what type of website do I have?
These are all things that you want to think about before we go too far with all the stuff.
That's why I'm starting with settings here is do I want my website to be primarily a blog?
So when people come to the homepage, they see all the different blog articles I've written, or do
I want this to be more of a business page where I've got my home page, which has information about
page, the content page, and then blogging is kind of like a very secondary thing on the website.
So if that was the case, I would say my home page is going to be a static page and this would be the
home page and this will be where my blog posts are for this case.
I'm missing.
My home page is going to be my latest blog post so I can keep that the way it is right now.
Now, this just depends on how you want to look at your website.
You guys come back and change stuff later.
But again, just stuff you want to think about before going too far.
We can also say how many blog posts per page I see.
And if I have maybe twenty blog posts, you'll see a little read more or I a number button at the bottom
of the page after I see ten posts to say to see more posts, you'll see that I can kind of adjust that
right here.
I did allude to when I first registered the site, it set it all up.
The very last option when we said our title on our username and password, the very last option looked
exactly like this.
Write a little check box and it said Discourage search engines from indexing this site that basically
tells the search engines when they come to your Web site, Google, Yahoo, Bing.
To know what I don't want you to index me right now.
I don't want you to look at what I'm doing.
Just go away.
I'll tell you to come back some other time.
That's what that checkbox is doing.
So don't even come here.
Don't look at my Web site.
This is important.
If you have maybe you're rebuilding this website for somebody else and it's an existing site.
You may want to have that just turn off right now or you just want to hide information from Google.
The problem with checking that is that I usually forget to uncheck it.
So if a Web site goes live and I realize after a month or two that I'm getting no traffic notice coming
here, Google's not indexing me whatever the case is.
This is why because maybe I had this checked.
So unless you really need to, I wouldn't check it.
But if you do want to hide the information, if this is duplicate information by, you know, duplicating
this blog and working on it on the side, you may want to check that.
If you did check that initially, this is where you come back to to uncheck it discussion.
This is very important because this is how people comment on your website.
For the most part, you can keep most of these options the way they are, can notify me when there's
a new blog link or notify me any time a post or a comment is made to a post or their post is held for
moderation.
Those are all good to know because you want to know when somebody leaves a comments.
The problem is there's a lot of spam comments out there.
So you want to kind of turn some of this off.
They don't necessarily just like not have commenting, but I would definitely always say check on this
comment must be manually approved before it goes live.
I don't want just anybody to be able to post something and for it to go live to the world to see because
it could be something negative or derogatory or just spam or hateful.
It could be even code injections that hackers could use.
So I always want to say that I want to take a look at that comment before it goes live.
We're going to see all that stuff here a little bit.
Now, we can also say, like, you know, what kind of words would put a blog post into moderations?
I could type in a bunch of bad words in here or whatever I want to to say any time you see this, just
go ahead and hold onto that blog or that comment.
I can also blacklist people by their IP address, their email address, if they're coming back and they're
always doing bad stuff.
I think it's going to blacklist them right here.
We can also show avatars, aggravators or different types of IP characters when people do post kind
of what they show up as those are kind of fun by they don't tweet those out to much media.
When you upload media, how does it show this is the default sizes for small, medium and large images?
I really don't mess with that too much.
I'll show you where that does become important later on.
But just know that it's here that you can always tweet out for permalink.
That's the last big one here by default WordPress.
That's up to date and name.
So let's say when I go to the website and I go see online marketing concepts ICOM and then I go to a
Web page, it's going to show the actual date time and all year, month and day.
And then the name of the post that's all just accessible to me.
How are they need people to know or have this URL here?
What is what they're seeing?
A lot of times you will see blogs with this, what they call an ugly Yooralla, which is the database
information where it's, you know, some database info and like the page ID, that's not real good for
good SEO nine times out of ten, I'll choose post name only like right here.
So I'll see the website you earlier domain name and then the full you URL is the name of that page or
that post that's so nice and clean that the search engines are immediately able to tell what that article
or that page is about.
An index me properly but feel free to use any of these.
There's really no wrong answer, but this is probably best for SEO.
Privacy is kind of a new one in WordPress where they will let you link to a privacy policy page.
This is good to have really nothing you have to do here, having never really tweet this out.
If you want to create your own privacy policy page, you could do that here.
But that's the majority of all your settings.
The next video, we're going to take a look at posts and start to have some fun here with creating new
articles.
And we're going to go from there.