Bernise: Website Settings

Configure Reading Settings

  1. Go to “Dashboard” → “Settings” → “Reading”
  2. Choose “a static page” on your home page displays options.
  3. Select “Home” as Homepage.
  4. Select “Blog” as your posts page.
  5. Save your settings.

Website settings WordPress

Permalink Settings

Next, go to go to “Dashboard” → “Settings” → “Permalinks” and choose a permalink type.

There are three types of WordPress permalinks:

  1. Plain Permalinks
    The Plain Permalink is WordPress’ default permalink, and is also called the Ugly Permalink.
    Example: http://yourwebsite.com/?p=N
    The Plain Permalink is ‘not user-friendly and also not optimized for search engines’.
  2. Pretty Permalinks
    Pretty Permalinks are SEO-friendly and attractive.
    Example: http://your-website.com/2012/post-name/ or http://yourwebsite.com/2012/12/30/post-name
  3. Almost Pretty Permalinks
    The Almost Pretty permalinks are similar to Pretty Permalinks and look like this:
    http://yourwebsite.com/index.php/yyyy/mm/dd/post-name/

Website Permallinks

Customize Homepage Settings via WordPress Theme Customizer

Go to “Dashboard”“Appearance”“Customize”“Homepage Settings”.