WordPress Settings

• Site Title
  • The title of your site, usually also the title of your project.
• Tagline 
  • The tagline is the subtitle of your site. You can leave this blank.
• Administration Email Address
  • This is the email address of the administrator of the site. 
• Timezone 
• Date Format 
  • The date format section allows you to change how dates display on posts. You can use the Custom option with a single space to set posts to display without a date. Find out more at Customize date and time format.
• Time Format
  • The time format section allows you to change how time displays on posts, if your theme displays the time. You can use the Custom option with a single space to set posts to display without a time. Find out more at Customize date and time format.
• Week Starts On
• Site Language

• “Your homepage displays” latest posts or a static page.
  • Displaying latest posts means that the first page of the site always displays the most recent posts. This option works well if you’d like to display lots of content that a visitor can explore.
  • Displaying a static page means the first page of the site displays fixed content. This option works well if you’d like to display an introduction or other static content.
• “Blog posts show at most”
  • If the site has a lot of content, use this to control how many posts appear on a single page
• “For each post in a feed, include”
  • If the theme you’ve chosen displays text on the blog or posts page, use this option to control whether all of the content displays or just an excerpt. 

Site visibility

Site visibility determines the visitors that can access a site. You can choose to make your site visible to the public, to the Smith community only, or only to those you’ve added to your site.

The top two settings are public on the web:

• “Allow search engines to index this site.”
  •  Anyone on the internet can view your site. The content of your site will be indexed by search engines like Google.  This is the most public setting.
• “Discourage search engines from indexing this site.”
  • Anyone on the internet can view your site.  It won’t likely be indexed, so it is unlikely that someone would find it through a search.
• The rest of the settings are private to the Smith community or to those added to the site
  • “I would like my site to be visible only to Registered network users.”
    • Anyone with a current @smith.edu email address or smith login can view your site. If you give a Smith user the link to your site, they will be prompted to log in before they are able to see your site.
  • “I would like my site to be visible only to Site subscribers.”
    • This is effectively the same as the above setting. If you would like to request that we add access for a specific Smith user, Please contact LRT.  Adding someone in this fashion may allow them to skip the login step.
  • “I would like my site to be visible only to Site administrators.”
    • This is the most private setting. Only people who have been added to the site as Administrators will be able to see it. This is a good setting to use while you are working on a project that you don’t want too many people to see yet.
  • “I would like my site to be visible only to Site contributors.”
    • This is the second to most private setting. This is typically how you would set a Site for a course in which students are writing content that is meant to be visible only to people in the course.  With this setting, only people who are Authors, Editors, Contributors, or Administrators can see the site.