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The Most Important Settings in Wordpress
In this article we will quickly go through the most important settings of Wordpress. We will show only the options of a default Wordpress installation. If you install any plugins their settings might override these standard settings.
In your Wordpress Admin Panel, click ‘Settings’. In the General settings page these are the most important settings:
- Blog title and Tagline: These are very very important. The reason because they are so important is that Wordpress will generate the title of your pages from these settings and the title of a page is the single most important factor for search engine rankings. So if you want to make sure that visitors will actually find your site fill out the Title and Tagline options correctly, preferably including some keywords that your visitors are likely to search for on Google.
- : Wordpress will send you important notifications to this address so make sure it’s a valid e-mail address that you check regularly.
- The rest of the settings in this section are really up to you, they are self explanatory.
The settings in the ‘Writing’ should be left alone unless you know why you want to change them.
Reading section’s most important settings.
- Front page displays: You can decide what you want to put on the front page of your website. By default, your most recent Posts will be shown. However, if you want that page to be a static Page, you can select that Page here.
- Blog pages show at most: When you create a new Post in Wordpress, the most recent ones will show up on your blog pages. You can set here how many of these you want to show.
Discussion Settings:
- Before a comment appears: It is very important that one of the available checkboxes are set to prevent spamming on your blog. The first one will require your approval every time a user posts a comment, using the second option, they will be able to comment after the first one was approved.
Privacy Settings:
- You simply have to decide whether or not you want your blog show up in search engines. In most cases you want to do that, so keep the default setting.
Permalink Settings:
- This is very important and the default setting here is not very good. Permalinks are also known as search engine friendly URLs but they are just as important for your visitors. Permalinks basically create an easy to read URL (address) for your Posts. Read the link with the available tags or use this suggested custom one: /%category%/%postname%/
You can leave the rest of the settings as they are, the default option should work well. If you do make a change make sure you know what you are doing as it might affect how your site works, what your visitors see or what search engines find on your Wordpress Blog.
Keep in mind that Plugins may override these settings. If you have plugins installed and the changes you make do not take effect, make sure your Plugins are not interfering with these settings. Please read our next article about Wordpress Plugins.