To get to the Settings tab from the dashboard, click on the “Settings” link under the appropriate blog. You can also click on the “Settings” tab if you are on the Posting page.
Clicking on the Settings tab reveals the sub-links that come under it. These settings control various aspects of your blog. As mentioned previously, when you click on any tab, the rest of the page also changes accordingly so let us see what the rest of our page looks like after having clicked on the tab.
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What you see in the picture above is just the first half of the page. Take note that this page displays the options that are available to you under the “Basic”
sub link of the “Settings” tab. Other options under this sub link can be seen by scrolling down the page. Let us look at each of these options and what should be selected.
Blog Tools: This segment contains three links: Import Blog, Export Blog and Delete Blog. You can use these links to manipulate your blog data. Through these links, you can import the contents of another blog into your new blog, export, download or transfer your blog to your computer or to another host and you can also delete the current blog that you are working on.
Title: This is the Blog title which you entered in previous sections. If you wish to modify the title, this is where you can change it. For now, do not change this.
Description: This is a short description of what your blog is about. As usual, you should ensure that this description contains words related to your
website’s overall topic. The description should not be too long, maybe about 10 to 20 words. Let’s see some examples of descriptions that can be used.
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You should take a cue from these examples and generate a description that will be unique to your blog.
• Nigeria’s best news website – Get the latest Naija news and hot stories
• Nigerian Job search, online recruitment, vacancy and careers daily updates
As can be seen from the examples above, the description describes what the blog is all about.
For the other options on this page, do the following:
Add your blog to our listings?: Select “Yes”
Let search engines find your blog? Select “Yes”
Show Quick Editing on your Blog? Select “Yes”
Show Email Post links? Select “Yes”
Adult Content? Select “No”
Under “Global Settings”, do not change anything, just go straight to “Save Settings” and click the button to save the new settings that you have made.
When you click on save settings, a message appears near the top of the page. This indicates that the new settings have been saved. If this message does not appear, wait a little bit and if it still does not appear, click on “Save Settings” again.
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This also goes for all the other settings and tabs. Whenever you change any options, you must always save it in this manner so that the settings remain, otherwise they might be lost when you click on another sub-link or another tab.
Having saved our new settings successfully, we move on to the other sub-links. I shall only talk about those sub-links that contain options that we need to change at this stage. In the “Publishing” sub-link, there are no options that we need to change for now so we skip it and go on to the “Formatting” sub-link. Click on it to reveal the options that come under it.
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In this sub-link, change the first option “Show at Most” to 5 posts. This is the amount of posts that will be shown on your blog home page. You also need to change the Time Zone. Change it to Lagos (note that the list is not
alphabetical rather its according to the various time zones, so look for GMT +01:00 and then locate Lagos.
After doing this, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on “Save Settings”
to save the new settings.
Next, click on the “Comments” sub-link. Here we need to change only two things. The first is to click inside the red circle in the next picture to change
“Who can comment?” to the first option which is “Anyone” instead of
“Registered Users”. Setting this option to “Anyone” will make it easy for people to comment on your blog.
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The second thing you need to change in the settings is “Comment Notification email” which is the last setting. So leave everything else and just scroll to the bottom of the page. Here you will enter your email inside the box so that whenever a visitor to your website leaves a comment on any vacancy, you will receive an email to notify you.
After entering your email, click on save settings, wait for the confirmation that the settings have been saved, and then click on the next sub-link which is “Archiving”. Under archiving, there is only one change to make and this is in the first option (Archive Frequency). Change this to Weekly or Daily and click Save Settings.
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Move on to the next sub-link which is Site Feed. Only one change here too, and also in the first option “Allow Blog Feeds”. Change this from Full to Short.
Click save settings and then we are done.
Please do not change any of the settings in the remaining sub-links of “Email
& Mobile”, “OpenID” and “Permissions”. Only when you are more advanced should you bother about those settings. For now, their current values are okay.
That’s the end of this chapter. In the next chapter, we shall see how you can change the way your blog looks to visitors on the frontend.