Category: WordPress • Est. reading time: 2 minutes
Settings > General is the front desk of your WordPress site. It is where you set the name people see, the address the site lives at, and a handful of basics that quietly affect everything else. Most of these you set once and forget, but a couple can lock you out if you fill them in wrong, so let us walk through each one.
The Fields
Site Title and Tagline. Your site’s name and a short description. Both can appear in your theme and in search results, so replace the default “Just another WordPress site.”
WordPress Address and Site Address (URL). These two trip people up. In a standard install they are identical. Changing them incorrectly can take your site offline or lock you out of the dashboard, so leave them alone unless you know exactly why you are changing them.
Administration Email Address. Where WordPress sends admin notices and password resets. Changing it requires confirmation from the new address.
Membership and New User Default Role. Leave membership off unless you truly want public registration, and keep the default role at Subscriber. Never default to Administrator.
Site Language, Timezone, Date and Time Format, Week Starts On. Display preferences. Set the timezone to your city so scheduled posts and comment times are correct.
What we set for clients: a real title and tagline, membership off, default role Subscriber, and the timezone matched to your actual location.
Want a Hand With This?
We teach the whole picture in our live, one-on-one Learn How to Use WordPress classes, paced to you, no pre-recorded videos. Grab a spot at allydrez.com/learn-how-to-use-wordpress, or let us handle your site at support@allydrez.com or 1-321-209-2004.