GENERAL SETTINGS TAB

DASHBOARD >> SETTINGS >> GENERAL

WordPress general setting is used to set the basic configuration settings for your site. In the setting administration screen, it is a default setting screen.

Detail of General Tab

  • Site Title It displays the name of the site in the template header.
  • Tagline This is a subheading for your site. Based on your theme, this may or may not show up on the front of your site
  • WordPress Address (URL) It is the URL of WordPress directory where your all core application files are present
  • Site Address(URL) This is the url of the site, it should only be different than the WP address if the directories are different, (generally this setting and the WordPress Address are the same)
  • Email Address This is the default administrative email address and it will be used by the site to notify you of important things happening with the site, such as new user signups, or password changes. This email is also used as a default by many plugins when an alternate email address is not available
  • Membership Checking this box allows visitors to register on your site. For instance, if you have content that you want users to sign up for, you’ll have to check this button to allow registration access
  • Default User Role If membership is enabled, this is the user role that will be set for a new site member by defaults
  • Timezone Choose a city that is in your timezone to set WordPress time locally. If this is not set, the blog time will be based on the server WordPress is hosted on- For instance, if your server is hosted in California, and you are in New York, any admin emails sent from WordPress will have California time, this could be very confusing
  • Date Format Sets the date format as you need to display on the site
  • Week Starts On Sets the week day which you prefer to start for WordPress calendar. By default it is set as Monday
  • Site Language Sets the language for the WordPress dashboard

Once you click the save changes button, a confirmation text box will appear notifying you that your settings have been saved.