This final video in the series shows the settings and configurations you can make to customize the function and look of your blog to the greatest detail. It also includes some important settings that need to be made after installing a new WordPress website.

We’ll discuss how to configure the settings to optimize and get the most out of your WordPress site.

The Settings sub-panel contains all of the settings that determine how your site behaves, how you interact with your site, and how the rest of the world interacts with your site.

Covered in this video:

• General – Updating your site’s title and location, who may register an account at your blog, and how dates and times are calculated and displayed.
• Writing – Customizing the interface with which you write new posts.
• Reading – Deciding if you want posts–or a static page–to be displayed as your site’s homepage. How many posts are displayed at one time, and how to adjust RSS syndication feed features to determine how the information from your site is sent to a reader’s web browser or other applications.
• Discussion – Control the settings concerning incoming and outgoing comments, pingbacks and trackbacks, email notifications and the use of avatars.
• Media – Specify the maximum dimensions in pixels to use when inserting an image into the body of a post.
• Privacy – Choose whether you want your site to be indexed by search engines–like Google, Bing, or Yahoo!–or only to normal visitors.
• Permalinks – Create a custom URL structure for your permalinks and archives.
• Miscellaneous – File upload settings, link tracking and support for custom “hacks”.

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