Now that you got your pages written, it is now time to configure your site’s settings. Move your mouse over Settings. A menu will come up, and you would want to select General. In the General tab, you would see the site title as you entered it during installation. If you wish to change it, you can. You would see an option for a tagline. This is optional, and does not have to be filled. Go down a little further, you would see two form entries with your site’s URL in it. Do NOT change these. Your site can break if you don’t have things setup properly. You would see administrator email address. If you are unsure if you entered this correctly, this is where you would change it. This may or may not be the same as the User email address. If it is correct, I will recommend that you leave this alone as well. Under membership, if you are OK with people adding themselves as users to your site, check anyone can register. Since I am creating basic websites, I don’t allow membership registrations. You are proof that you don’t need to be a member to read my content. If you allow for memberships, you will get scammers, and SPAMmers adding their information. For time zone, you would want to pick a city in your country that is in the same time zone. In example, I live in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. My timezone is New York since Pittsburgh is not an option. Choose your date format, time format, and what day your week starts. Some people make Monday, while us old folks recognize Sunday as the start of the week. Once you made changes, it is now time to save changes.
Go down to Reading. On the first options, select Static Page. Choose your home page as your homepage. In my case, this is always Welcome. If you are going to have a blog site, then set that blank blog page as your posts page. If you don’t want search engines to go through your site, select discourage search engines from indexing your site. This is voluntary. The search engine can ignore your request, and still index your site. This is why your contact page should only have public information on the site. Again, save changes.
You can go through the other option pages, but this is the basics. Everything else can be different depending on the site. In example, I change my permalinks to be the post name rather than anything else. I find post name as simpler for the visitor, but again – this is voluntary, and do not have to change.