Tutorial: Basic WordPress Settings

[westnz]

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• Content type (Course, Tutorial, Online Workshop, or Lesson Plan): Tutorial
• Content title: Basic WordPress Settings
• Topic description: Introductory settings to get started.
• Audience (User, Developer, Designer, Contributor, etc.): User
• Experience Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Any): Beginner

Learning Objectives

Settings in context
- Title / Tagline (and how they display in Google)
- Setting your site’s timezone, and how this can affect your posts
- Setting a home page vs. a posts page

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[westnz]

Basic.WordPress.Settings.mp4

[digitalchild]

A great overview @westnz however I think going a bit deep into how the home page settings work so quickly that it might be confusing for some new users.

I would have liked to see discussion and permalinks touched on as these are important, especially permalinks which cause a lot of new users issues.

[devmuhib009]

Capitalize the thumbnail title will look good, I think.

[westnz]

Thank you, @digitalchild and @devmuhib009!

Jamie, I think the home page display is important to address before someone starts building their templates and adding content. I do have a video specifically about Permalinks planned for a bit further down in the User learning pathway 🦾

[quitevisible]

@westnz great overview! I didn't catch any other errors or mistakes. Just a couple bits of feedback:

Site Title and Tagline

• you make a great point about the SEO value. Maybe include a slide of where the tagline shows up in the browser tab/URL address? A SERP visual might also work if it's a good one.

• Is the tagline display dependent on theme support? If so, might be worth a mention.

Home Page - Static/Posts

This one's always a tricky one for new users.

• Consider making a point to creating the 'Home' and 'Blog' Pages first, prior to selecting them as static pages. Otherwise, they might be wondering how to select a page that doesn't exist.

That's it!

[SierraTR]

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Wow, so many rabbit holes you could go down... With that in mind would it be an idea to, at the end of the video, point to follow-on lessons the continue the settings explanations?

I agree that it would be a good idea to mention creating the home and blog blank pages before choosing to set a static home page. Since this is a very basic tutorial for new users, that might not be implied and only a sample page is included with the clean install. You may also want to mention that if you select a static home page and do not select a blog page, then published posts will not appear anywhere on the website - unless the website menu includes links directly to category archive pages. See...rabbit hole...

nice job, as usual.

[westnz]

Thank you for the helpful feedback @SierraTR and @quitevisible

[westnz]

Updated and published as part of the Beginner User learning pathway.