General site settings

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 - General
2 - Writing
3 - Reading
4 - Discussion
5 - Medias
6 - Permalinks
7 - Privacy

It’s necessary to visit this at least once when you’re getting started on the site.

In the left menu of your dashboard, go to the “Settings” tab. It contains several sub-sections that we’ll go through.

1 - General

Here you will set:

Your site title (the one visible in a search engine tab, for example)
Its tagline, if any
The icon (the favicon)
Your site’s address/URL (its homepage)
The admin email address (this is the email of the organization managing your site — if managed by an agency, it’s the agency’s email)
Then a series of settings for language, time zone, time and date format, and start of the week

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Do you have events and/or publish posts? The time and date format is chosen here, and this format applies to all blocks (events and posts) as well as to all pages containing lists (event indexes, post indexes, and the search page).

Save before moving on to the next tab!

2 - Writing

Choose whether you want to assign a default category and format to newly created posts
Here you also manage the contact details for sending emails from the site

Save before moving on to the next tab!

3 - Reading

Choose which page of your site will be the homepage
Choose which page will list all posts
Choose the maximum number of items displayed in a list (10 is set by default and is enough — visitors can then go to the next page!)
When your site is finished and ready to go live, make sure to uncheck “Discourage search engines from indexing this site.” Otherwise, your site won’t appear anywhere!

Save before moving on to the next tab!

4 - Discussion

Settings for what you allow or prefer regarding comments on your site. Unless it’s a blog, your pages usually don’t receive comments.

5 - Medias

Here you manage the size of images uploaded to the site. The default settings can generally be kept as they are. More information on image management and best practices here.

6 - Permalinks

Here you manage the site’s permalink format. The default settings can generally be kept as they are.

7 - Privacy

Here you choose which page will be considered the privacy policy page.

You can also install a plugin to manage your privacy policy and handle users’ consent for cookies on your site. Some plugins are very well designed, with step-by-step guidance for creating your document, integrating it, and formatting the consent banner.

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On Minos, the plugin Complianz | GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent is installed, offering advanced settings with great ease of use and configuration. We recommend keeping it, but you are free to use another tool. Just make sure to deactivate Complianz before activating a new plugin!

Got to The Different content types →

1 - General

Here you will set:

Your site title (the one visible in a search engine tab, for example)

Its tagline, if any

The icon (the favicon)

Your site’s address/URL (its homepage)

The admin email address (this is the email of the organization managing your site — if managed by an agency, it’s the agency’s email)

Then a series of settings for language, time zone, time and date format, and start of the week

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Save before moving on to the next tab!

3 - Reading

Choose which page of your site will be the homepage

Choose which page will list all posts

Choose the maximum number of items displayed in a list (10 is set by default and is enough — visitors can then go to the next page!)

When your site is finished and ready to go live, make sure to uncheck “Discourage search engines from indexing this site.” Otherwise, your site won’t appear anywhere!

Save before moving on to the next tab!

7 - Privacy

Here you choose which page will be considered the privacy policy page.

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