Blog settings

The blog settings page includes various sections that allow you to configure many settings that apply to the blog and affect how every page behaves.

Settings include:

  • title and description
  • search engines:
    • allow indexing: instructs search engines to either add your site to their index, or to ignore it altogether
    • title, description: by default these are derived from the main title and description of the blog, but you can customize them for search engines if you want them to show a different title and description in search results
  • title, description and image for sharing on Facebook and Twitter
  • date and time: you can configure the time zone of the blog and the format of dates and times as displayed on posts and pages
  • logo, favicon (the little icon shown in the tabs and bookmarks of your browser), and a cover image that can be used for example as background/header on the homepage
  • default layouts: there are 6 types of layouts required to render homepage, posts, pages, archives, tag pages and author pages, and you can configure the default layouts for each of these. The layouts available for selection are taken from the currently published version of the current theme. By default, the expected layouts are named index, post, page, archive, tag, author. The selected layouts for articles can also be overridden on a per-article basis
  • language
  • whether to show the full content or just the summary of posts in the RSS feed
  • how many posts should be displayed per page in the homepage, and archive/tag/author pages
  • the permalink format for posts: this affects how the URL of posts is constructed and it can contain the date or just the slug.

Most of these settings are optional, but we recommend that you choose a good title and description for search engines at a minimum.