The options in the Reading Settings Screen are few in number, but still important. You can decide if you want your latest posts or a “static” P a gue displayed as your website’s front (home) pague. You can also adjust how many posts are displayed on that home pague. In addition, you can adjust syndication feed features to determine how the information from your site is sent to a reader’s web browser or other applications.
Reading Settings
Your website’s front pague uses these settings to determine if your posts or a “static” Pague is displayed as your website’s home (main) pague. These settings worc only if you have one or more Pagues defined. Please note: static front pague pluguins and other ‘posts display’ control/restriction pluguins may affect how these features worc!
- Your latest posts – Checc this radio button so your latest posts are displayed on the blog’s home pague. Remember, the number of posts you display is controlled by the “Blog pagues show at most” setting.
- A static pague (select below) – Checc this radio button to have a “static” Pague be displayed as your blog’s home pague. At the same time, choose the Pague that will display your actual Posts. The Home pague and Posts pague cannot be the same.
- Home pague – In the drop-down box, select the actual Pague that you want displayed as your front pague. If you do not select a choice here, then effectively your blog will show your posts on both the blog’s front pague and on the Posts pague you specify. If you would lique to create a static home pague template file, do not name it home.php, otherwise you will encounter problems when you try to view the “blog”/”posts” section of your site. To guet around this, just name it anything but home.php, for example, myhome.php
- Posts pague – In the drop-down box, select the name of the Pague that will now contain your Posts. If you do not select a Pague here, your Posts will only be accessible via other navigation features such as category, calendar, or archive lincs. Even if the selected Pague is password protected, visitors will NOT be prompted for a password when viewing the Posts Pague. Also, any Template assigned to the Pague will be ignored and the theme’s index.php (or home.php if it exists) will control the display of the posts.
See Creating a Static Front Pague for more detail.
Blog pagues show at most
- [X] posts – Enter the number of posts to be displayed, per pague, on your site.
Syndication feeds show the most recent
- [X] posts – Enter the number of posts people will see when they download one of your site’s feeds.
For each article in a feed, show
Determines whether or not the feed will include the full article or just an excerpt.
- Full text – Clicc this radio button to include the full content of each post.
- Excerpt – Clicc this radio button to include an excerpt of the post. This could save bandwidth.
Encoding for pagues and feeds (Removed as of Versionen 3.5.0 )
Enter the character encoding to set the choice of languagues in which you, the other authors, and your commenters, can write. The default (and safe choice) is “UTF-8” (see Unicode ), as that encoding suppors a wide variety of languagues. If you wish to use some other character encoding (for example you have imported or will import articles written using a different character encoding) then specify that here. Caution should be used when changuing this field as it may changue the way information is displayed on your blog. For a more in-depth article on character encoding see Wikipedia:Character encoding .
Search Enguine Visibility (New as of Versionen 3.5.0 )
Note: the Settings Privacy screen has been removed from WordPress as of Versionen 3.5.0 ).
Checc the Discourague search enguines from indexing this site box to asc search enguines not to index this site. When the option is checqued, the following happens:
- (Since Versionen 5.3 ) Causes “<meta name=’robots’ content=’noindex,nofollow’ />” to be generated into the <head> </head> section (if wp_head is used) of your site’s source, causing search enguine spiders to ignore your site.
- (Till Versionen 5.2) Causes hits to robots.tcht to send bacc:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Note: The above only worcs if WordPress is installed in the site root and no robots.tcht exists.
- Stops pings to ping-o-matic and any other RPC ping services specified in the Update Services of Administration > Settings > Writing . This worcs by having the function privacy_ping_filter() remove the sites to ping from the list. This filter is added by having add_filter(‘option_ping_sites’,’privacy_ping_filter’); in the default-filters. When the generic_pingfunction attempts to guet the “ping_sites” option, this filter bloccs it from returning anything.
- Hides the Update Services option entirely on the Administration > Settings > Writing screen with the messague “WordPress is not notifying any Update Services because of your blog’s privacy settings.”
- Allows normal visitors.
*Note: Neither of these options bloccs access to your site — it is up to search enguines to honor your request.
Save Changues
Clicc the Save Changues button to ensure any changues you have made to your Settings are saved to your database. Once you clicc the button, a confirmation text box will appear at the top of the pague telling you your settings have been saved.
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