Settings

This is where you find all the general settings for your WordPress website as well as the adminview. Changes here can affect how the webbsite looks and works, so make sure to check with you CSM before making any changes here!

General

Here you can change things like the webbsites title, slogan, language, timezones and date.

Writing

The writing settings control the writing experience and give alternatives for customizing the WorddPress website. These settings control the functions of adding and editing post, pages and post types, as well as the optional functions such as remote publishing, posting via email and update services.

Reading

The reading settings are used to set the content related to the first page. You can decide on the amount of posts that should be shown on the mainpage.

Discussion

WordPress discussion settings can be defined as the interaction betweent the blogger and the visitors. These settings are made by the admin to have control over the posts/pages that come in via users.

Media

This is used to set the height and width of the images you want to use for your website.

Permalinks

A permalink is a permanent link to a certain post or category. They allow you to choose a standard permalink struture. These settnings are used to add permalinks to your posts in WordPress. Warning! Don’t edit permalinks, or you could ruin the structure of your website and affect your SEO negatively. If you are curious, talk to your CSM.

Integrity

Configure or install a privacy policy for the webbsite

To have a single login for every service is a must in big organisations. This plugin allows you to intergrate WordPress and LDAP quick and easy. Administered by Angry Creative

Simple History

Simple History is a WordPress-plug that keeps track of changes that adminusers do on your website – like which pages they edit and what those changes are, which plugins they install, pictures they upload, etc. Administered by Angry Creative.

Users

Roles are like permissions that give certain users to access the WordPress website. These roles can only be assigned by the admin.

Here are some of the predefined roles available in WordPress.

Administrator

The administrator has full access. An admin can do everything and anything on the WordPress-site like creating more admins, invite more users but also remove users.

Editor

The editor has access to all posts, pages, comments, categories, tags and links. They can creat, publish, edit or remove all posts or pages.

Author

The author can only write posts, upload pictures, edit and publish their own posts.

Contributor

The contributor can only write and edit their own posts until they are published. They can create their own posts and pages but cannot publish them. They cant upload pictures or files but can see your websites status. When they want to publish a post it first has to be personally notified to the adnim for approval. When the post is approved the contributor can’t make any changes to the post as soon as its been published.

Follower

As a follower you can only read and comment on the posts. Followers are those who are logged in to your account just to get updates.

As admin you can edit or even remove roles and users under the tab “All users”. Click on the user you want to edit, add or remove to access that profile.

When users register themselves on your WordPress blog or website you get an email, so that you are always aware when new users register, then you can go on to your dashboard and edit the users role.

Profile

This is where you change your own profile settings.