WordPress Training: Changing your reading settings
In addition to being able to change the design of your blog with themes WordPress gives you a few more options with customizing how your readers will experience your blog. To find them by heading to the settings menu and selecting the reading option.
First up there’s a way to change the front page of the blog so that the display the particular page where I am little going to straight to your latest blog post. There’s a video all about that so let’s take a look to the other options here. The first option here allows you to choose anything from one first upwards that will appear on your blogs from page. If you’re a fan of simplicity you might said this to one and I might read this one to check out the next latest post that after click through to previous so go for navigation options. Alternatively you might want to have your post to pay or on a long stream that can be very right away. In which case you’ll set this figure high.
Our next option affects readers accessing your content for an RSS feed reader. And determine to how many of your post would be downloaded to their reader at time. If you’d like people to be able to read your blog from their reader without visiting directly on the web, leave the full tags options set in the next section. If you prefer to send the a brief summary of your content and have coming visit your blog for the rest, choose summary. There’s no wrong or right way here although it’s quiet common to offer a full text for the sake of convenience. Also affecting people looking at your content in feed readers and you can learn a bit more about feeds in a number of our videos if you want to show what their all about are the options for enhanced feeds. This determines whether you add various social media links or those for categories, tags and common count to feeds.
Finally, if you’re using a different character set you may want to change from the default UTF-8 if this means nothing to you probably won’t. So there you go a few more ways to customize how your readers experience the content of your blog.
About the Author
Andy Johnson has been on the Internet since the its dawn(ie his first computer program was recorded on cassette tape) and his first hard drive cost about as much his current MacBook. His first byline was in 1993 for a local newspaper rag he eventually helmed, and his last “real job” was at a computer start up which ended when it ended. Throughout it all he’s freelanced and blogged. Now he is mesmerized by Search Engine Optimization forever trying to “rise to the top” for the right reasons. He’s been married to his wife Julia for as long as he can remember and has two lovely, wonderful children. He looks forward to sharing the latest in the technical best for all the online entrepreneurs.