Configuring WordPress Settings: Miscellaneous

This video is a continuation in a series of videos detailing each of the WordPress Settings pages. This video will focus on Miscellaneous Settings.

The Miscellaneous Settings page is sort of a catchall configuration screen for various options that don’t fit anywhere else.


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Configuring WordPress Settings: Privacy

This video is a continuation in a series of videos detailing each of the WordPress Settings pages. This video will focus on Privacy Settings.

Privacy Settings are fairly new and somewhat minimal at this point. They can be used to turn off update notifications in an effort to hide your blog from search engines. As noted in the video, this is far from a fool-proof solution, but it can be a useful feature in certain situations.


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Configuring WordPress Settings: Discussion

This video is a continuation in a series of videos detailing each of the WordPress Settings pages. This video will focus on Discussion Settings.

Discussion Settings allow you to better control comments on your blog. Various settings allow you to easily define which comments should automatically require moderation, and what information commenters need to include in order to post a comment.


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Configuring WordPress Settings: Reading

This video is a continuation in a series of videos detailing each of the WordPress Settings pages. This video will focus on Reading Settings.

Reading Settings control the number of posts that appear on a page, whether your RSS feed includes full or partial posts, default page encoding, and article compression.


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Configuring WordPress Settings: Writing

This video is a continuation in a series of videos detailing each of the WordPress Settings pages. This video will focus on Writing Settings.

Writing Settings allow you to assign default categories for posts and the blogroll, setup a mail server for blogging by email, and define update services that should be notified whenever you add new content.


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Configuring WordPress Settings: General

WordPress is an incredibly flexible and powerful blogging system. A great deal of that flexibility can be configured through the various Settings pages in the WordPress administrator.

This is the first in a series of videos detailing each of the WordPress Settings pages. This video will focus on General Settings.

General Settings include blog title, tagline, blog URL, and time settings, among other things.


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Configuring WordPress Settings: Permalinks

This video is a continuation in a series of videos detailing each of the WordPress Settings pages. This video will focus on Permalink Settings.

Permalink Settings allow you to define the link structure that WordPress generates for each of your post. Permalinks are one of the few areas where the WordPress default settings are highly undesirable. One of the firs things you’ll want to do after setting up your WordPress blog is to modify your permalinks.

This video will show you how to easily setup human-friendly permalinks that should also perform well with most search engines.


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