WP Dashboard Settings

General Settings

The most important setting to set here is going to be the timezone.
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Reading

Note

The most important setting here is to make sure that Search Engine Visibility is checked during development time and unchecked when the website is live!

 

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Discussion

This area controls the comments. Even though we don’t enable comments for 98% of our websites we still need to make sure these settings are in place. This gets rid of spam.

  • Default Article settings:
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  • Other comment settings:
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  • E-mail me whenever:
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  • Before a comment appears:
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  • Comment Blacklist: Please add any IPs that are currently spamming the website. The image below have IP numbers of a few spammers for that particular site.
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Permalinks

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