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Welcome back.

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Now in this video we are going to go over our settings menu and one of the first things we're going

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to do is to go to the left side menu and then we're going to click the settings like that's going to

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reveal to us all of the areas in the settings that we can actually change.

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And we're going to go through this right now.

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Now the first area that you're going to click is going to be the general settings and you're going to

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be able to make some changes here.

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But for the most part you're going to leave most of it the same.

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Now you can give your site a title.

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And in this case we've called the site test directory and that really came from the installation.

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We could call this whatever we want.

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Now when your site appears on the search engine you'll notice that this site title will eventually be

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the one that will show for your site.

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So you want to pick this general setting carefully and make sure it's something that you want to reflect

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in terms of your business.

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Now you'll also have the ability to write in a tag line.

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You'll be able to communicate what the site is about.

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So you want.

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Again be mindful of what you want people to know about your site

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OK.

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So then your tag line is set up your WordPress address.

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In most cases these two addresses will pretty much be the same.

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This is where you want customers to actually come when they come to your Web site and how you want it

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to be recognized.

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You'll have an email address which is for your administration and for logging in and for your notifications

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for membership.

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This will allow people to register on your site.

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If you give them the address now you will have to designate whether or not anyone can sign up to your

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site.

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And the only way that they'll be able to do that at will whenever they want to regardless of whether

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or not you give them a link is by you making that available by saying anyone can register if you leave

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this unchecked.

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That means that no one can register without you giving them permission or without them getting the link.

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Now when someone actually does register automatically or otherwise then you will give them a default

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role and you'll see several of them here.

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And I'm going to go through the drop down menu and you'll notice that you have subscribers contributors

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authors editors and administrators obviously administrators can make obviously an administrator can

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make all the changes that you can make a subscriber can make.

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None of those changes and all of these other roles can make changes in between in terms of the time

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zone you want to change the time zone to be the one that reflects yours and you're going to have to

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do that according to the universal time code.

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So if you want to find out what the universal time code is for your city all you'll need to do is to

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go to Google.

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I'm going to do that right now.

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As you type in to Google UTC code for your city typically you'll get a search result that you'll be

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able to go to and make the conversion.

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In this particular case if we were in New York City we would be able to find out that our UTC is going

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to be minus 4.

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So all we have to do is go to minus four inside of WordPress once we do that we can pick a format that

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we want to have or our dates.

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And this is going to appear in our post.

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We can either leave the default settings or we can change them we can change the time as we once wanted

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to appear on our post and then we can determine when we want our weeks to start in terms of how WordPress

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calculates them.

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You can start either on Sunday or Monday and once you've done those things you can actually hit changes

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and you will have customized your WordPress general settings now.

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The next thing you're gonna do is you're gonna go to the writing link and when you go to that link you're

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going to notice a couple of settings here.

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You can actually convert emoticons into graphics when they're on your display.

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And again that is going to be optional you don't have to do that and these other settings are truly

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optional.

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You can set a default post category and we'll talk a little bit more about categories in another video

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but you can make it so that every post that you start with will automatically go to your favorite WordPress

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category.

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You can automatically set so that WordPress will automatically post in a specific format and all of

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these formats are once again going to be optional.

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You can leave it as UN categorized in standard because you can always change your post category and

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your format when you're actually doing the post and that is actually what we recommend that you do.

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One thing that WordPress will allow you to do is to post with an email that would mean that you would

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send an email to an address that WordPress indicates and then you would then have that appear in your

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wordpress blog as a post.

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This is an advanced concept but one that you will want to do by setting up your mail server giving yourself

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a log in name and password and then setting a default category for your post to go through.

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Now WordPress will allow you to set certain services so that these services will be on madly notified

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when you actually post to your site and they will notify these services to give you more exposure to

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give you more back links and to give you more opportunities to have other people see your post so once

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you've updated the categories that you want inside the writing settings you can click save changes OK.

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So with that thanks and I'll see you in another video.