General Settings

Here you can make adjustments that will be reflected throughout all of your webpages.

Importing Dummy data: If you are new to wordpress or have problems setting up a site that look like the Theme Demo, you can import dummy posts and settings here that will definitely help to understand how those tasks are done. There may be several demo versions available for import.  Before importing you must select the version you want and then click ‘Import Dummy Data’ button. This will Start importing the demo content and settings. You must be aware that if you have an existing site, it will overwrite your current settings.  Also importing the content may take some time, sometimes up to 15 minutes depending on how many images are imported.   After you are done importing, the site will look like the one in the demo except the widgets content. then you can replace the demo content with your real content, and in this way it will take less time to set up your site exactly like the demo site.

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ShowWorPress admin bar – allows enabling or disabling  the admin bar, which changes the way you can access the site’s backend.

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Tracking code – allows you to insert Google Analytics or other tracking service code for monitoring information about your visitors and other useful data.

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Copyright text – Your copyrights that appear in the footer of your blog.

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At the end there are options that will allow you to change the URL slug for different post types.

e.g. the VIDEO slug will appear in the URL after your domain name YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME.COM/VIDEO/VIDEO_POST_NAME

If you need to change ‘VIDEO‘ to something else, edit this field:

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If you want to change any of the slugs, then after changing the slugs and saving the general settings you’ll have to reset the permalinks in order to make the new slugs work properly. To reset the permalinks you have to access Settings -> Permalinks and click the ‘Save Changes’ button.

And below you can check all available options related to this section:

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