Changing Your Default WordPress Settings – WordPress 101 – Lesson 3

by Bret Phillips

5 most important settings sections:

General, Reading, Media, Permalinks, Privacy

Changing your website title.

Setting a static home page and moving your blog to a new page.

Making sure your site is visible to everyone.

Creating custom URLs for your posts and pages.

NEXT: Lesson 4 – How To Make A Post

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Written by Bret Phillips

Bret Phillips is a web consultant helping small businesses with WordPress development, Search Engine Optimization, and Social Media Strategy and Management. When not working on the web, you can find him heavily involved in the music scene, playing, promoting, throwing festivals, and more...




  • http://www.chillersloveland.com/ Marlene Boulton

    Awesome videos! Very clear and to the point. Easy to understand and follow. I am so proud of your work!

  • http://www.chillersloveland.com/ Marlene Boulton

    Awesome videos! Very clear and to the point. Easy to understand and follow. I am so proud of your work!

  • http://webdevils.biz Bret Phillips

    Thanks Marlene, I am very glad to hear that. My goal is always to try and break it down so that it’s easy to digest and understand. It’s nice to hear that it’s working :)

  • http://webdevils.biz Bret Phillips

    Thanks Marlene, I am very glad to hear that. My goal is always to try and break it down so that it’s easy to digest and understand. It’s nice to hear that it’s working :)

  • Smickers

    Great videos but I have a problem that you do not address.
    I have installed wordpress in the directory http://www.blahblah.com/wordpress but I want to list my home page on http://www.blahblah.com how do I do this?
    I cant do it in permalinks because if I leave the custom box blank wordpress will use a default url.
    SO how do I set my homepage to the .com url???

  • http://bretphillips.com Bret Phillips

    This is usually done when you actually install WordPress.

    Instead of installing it into a sub directory, you want to install it into the Root directory.

    Many times when using an automatic installed like Simple Scripts or some other installer through your web host, they will automatically populate the form field in regards to which directory you want to install wordpress into.

    Usually it is automatically populated with ‘wordpress’. By deleting that and having no characters in that form field, you will install directly into the Root.

    Hope this helps

  • Joe Patak

    Thank you for the informative video. However, I keep having trouble with my default “home” page robbing the content of another page and staying there. I can’t get rid of the home page. Getting close to screaming :)

  • http://bretphillips.com Bret Phillips

    Joe, I am not really sure what that could mean. Do you have an example you could share?