The General Settings Screen, the primary interface within the Settings Administration panel, controls several fundamental aspects of your website. It enables you to define your site’s title and location, manage user membership, set the custom login image, customize the calculation and presentation of dates and times, and other website settings.
General SettingsLink to this section
Site TitleLink to this section
Input the title of your website (or blog) in the provided space. Most themes will showcase this title at the top of each page and in your reader’s browser title bar. Additionally, WordPress utilizes this title as the identifier for your syndication feeds.
TaglineLink to this section
Briefly describe the purpose of your site. Here, you can enter your site’s slogan or tagline. A tagline is a concise phrase or sentence that captures the core essence of your site, often incorporating humor or an attention-grabbing element.
ClassicPress Address (URL)Link to this section
Input the complete URL of the directory that houses your ClassicPress core application files, such as wp-config.php, wp-admin, wp-content, and wp-includes.
For instance, if you’ve installed ClassicPress in a “blog” directory, your ClassicPress address would be https://example.net/blog (with example.net being your domain).
If you’ve installed ClassicPress in your web root, the address will be the root URL, like https://example.net. ClassicPress will automatically remove a trailing slash (/) if present.
Note that if you’ve set the WP_SITEURL constant in your wp-config.php file, that value will appear in this field, and you won’t be able to modify it from this General Settings screen.
Blocks CompatibilityLink to this section
Blocks will not work with ClassicPress. In some cases, however, a theme or plugin may ship with block capability that can be turned on or off. If that capability is turned off, the theme or plugin in question should then work as expected.
In some other cases, the theme or plugin concerned might check for the presence of blocks but does not actually need them to function as expected. For themes and plugins of this sort, ClassicPress comes with a “compatibility mode”.
Compatibility ModeLink to this section
This can be turned on by going to Settings -> General, scrolling down to the Blocks Compatibility option and setting it to On. Then hit Save Changes at the bottom of the page.
