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Settings & Tools

The Settings and Tools menus: site title, tagline and addresses, language, timezone and date formats, what your homepage shows, permalinks, default category and post format, your privacy policy page, exporting and importing content, personal data requests, and Site Health.

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How to change your site language

WordPress can run your whole site in a language other than English — menus, buttons, dates, and the emails it sends. You can even keep your own dashboard in one language while your visitors read your site in another.

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How to export a person’s data

When someone asks for a copy of what your site knows about them, WordPress can round it up for you. Open Tools → Export Personal Data, add their details, and WordPress gathers the data into a file you can send on.

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How to erase a person’s data

Someone has asked you to delete the personal data your site keeps about them. WordPress has a tool built for exactly that: it gathers everything stored against their email address, then erases it or strips out the identifying details.

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How to check your site’s health

Site Health runs a set of checks on your WordPress site and tells you, in plain words, what is working and what needs your attention. It is the quickest way to catch a quiet problem before your visitors notice one.

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How to set your site title, tagline, and addresses

Your site's name, its short description, and the addresses people use to reach it all live on one screen in your dashboard. Here's how to update them.

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How to choose a permalink structure

A permalink is the web address of one of your posts or pages, and the structure you choose decides how every one of those addresses is built. Pick one that reads well now and still reads well a year from now.

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How to share your site’s details with support

WordPress keeps a tidy summary of how your site is set up — your WordPress version, your server, your plugins, and plenty more. Handing that summary to support saves you a round of back-and-forth questions before anyone can help.

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How to choose your default category and post format

Every post you write needs a category, and it can use a post format too. Pick your defaults once, and WordPress fills them in for you from then on.

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How to control search engine visibility

While a site is still taking shape, you probably don't want half-finished pages turning up in Google. WordPress has a single setting for this, and you can flip it back the moment you're ready to launch.

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How to choose what your homepage shows

Your homepage is the first thing a visitor sees, and you get to decide what's on it. Show your newest posts there, or hand the spot to a page you've written yourself — either way, it's a quick trip to your Reading settings.

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How to export your content

Exporting puts your site's writing, pages, comments, and categories into a single file you can keep. It's a good backup to have on hand — and the first step if you ever move your content somewhere else.

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How to set your timezone, date, and time format

Your site's clock decides when scheduled posts go live and how every date and time reads to your visitors. Here's how to point WordPress at your timezone and choose the formats it shows.

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How to connect your site to external services

Some jobs are better handled by a service outside your site — an AI tool that writes image descriptions, for example. You connect that service once, and every plugin on your site can use it from then on.

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How to set up a network of sites

A network lets you run as many WordPress sites as you like from one installation — one set of files, one login, and one dashboard for all of them. Here's how to turn your single site into a network, then add and look after the sites, people, themes, and settings inside it.

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How to switch between your sites

Looking after more than one site? You don't have to remember addresses or sign in again — here's how to hop between the sites you belong to.

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How to set how many posts show on your archive and feed pages

Two numbers decide how much of your blog people see at once: how many posts your archive pages list, and how many items go out in your feed. Both live on one settings screen, and you can change them in a minute.

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How to tell other sites when you publish

When you publish a new post, WordPress can let other sites know about it for you. You set this up once, and every post you publish from then on gets announced.

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How to set your category and tag URL bases

Your category and tag pages sit at web addresses that start with a word you get to choose. Here's how to swap the default category and tag for words that sound like your site — no code needed.

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How to set up your privacy policy page

A privacy policy tells your visitors what you do with their data. WordPress can point your site at a page you already have, or draft a new one for you to work from — either way, it takes about a minute.

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How to import content from another site

Moving to a new site doesn't have to mean starting over. WordPress can bring your posts, pages, and comments across from your old home — whether that's another WordPress site or a completely different platform.

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How to convert categories and tags

Categories and tags both group your posts, but they behave differently — categories nest, tags don't. If you picked the wrong one when you started your site, WordPress can convert existing categories into tags, or tags into categories, and keep every post attached along the way.

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