Wordpress General Options
Now let’s set up the General Options for our Wordpress blog. Log into your Wordpress Blog.
Click on Options, then click on the General Tab.
Here is the first half of the General Options page.
The information should be filled in correctly for you here for the kind of install we are doing.
Blog title:
As set up during your install. If you decide you want to change the title, here is where you do it.
Tagline:
The description you set up during your install. You can change it here if you want.
Wordpress Address and Blog Address
Leave the two Url addresses as is. They should be something similar to www.yourdomain.com or www.yourdomain.com/blog
email:
The address you set up when you installed.
Membership and Default User Role:
For now leave the Membership boxes unchecked, and the New User Default Role to subscriber.
Here is the second half of the General Options Setup
Times in the Blog should differ by:
Enter the number of hours to offset from UTC. See down under the Default time format box? This is the time the blog thinks it is now. Subtract or add hours to that to get the blog set to your time. You can see if you did it correctly when you click the update button. The time should now be your current time. If you got it wrong, try again.
Default date format:
If you don’t like the way the date is formated, click on the link that says Documentation on date formatting. That page will give you options for formatting the date.
Default time format:
You’ll probably just leave this as is. If you want to change the format, this site, has a table of different formatting options.
Weeks in the Calendar Should Start on:
Wordpress defaults to Monday for the start of the week. I usually change this to Sunday, because that’s what I consider the beginning of the week.
Click on Update Options. You’ve just update the general options for your Wordpress Blog.
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Once again, I wish I’d had this info way back when. :)