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Settings

WordPress stores general site preferences in the database: language, timezone, how dates and times are displayed, permalink structure, and whether search engines should be discouraged from indexing the site. The Settings page in WP Toolkit lets you change these options for the current application without opening the WordPress admin Settings screens.

Changes apply only to this application. To preset values for new WordPress sites, use WordPress Blueprints.

Accessing Settings​

Step 1: Log in to your ServerAvatar account.

Step 2: Open the Server Dashboard → Applications → select your WordPress application.

Step 3: In the application panel sidebar, open WP Toolkit → Settings.

WP Toolkit Settings page

Site Language​

Sets the default language for the WordPress installation and affects the admin interface locale where language packs are installed.

Select the language from the dropdown and save the form.

Timezone​

Controls how WordPress displays scheduled posts, comment times, and other date-based output. Choose the timezone that matches your audience or business location.

Date and Time Format​

Date format defines how dates appear on the site (for example, month/day/year or year-month-day).

Time format defines 12-hour or 24-hour time display.

Select the formats that match your site’s style and save.

Permalinks are the permanent URLs for posts and pages. The structure affects SEO and readability.

Common options include plain query strings, date-based URLs, numeric IDs, and post name slugs. You can also define a custom structure using tags such as %year%, %monthnum%, and %postname%.

After changing permalinks, flush rewrite rules on the Performance page if URLs return 404 errors.

Search Engine Visibility​

When Discourage search engines from indexing this site is enabled, WordPress sets the blog_public option to ask search engines not to index the site. This is useful for staging, development, or pre-launch sites.

Search engines are not required to honor this setting.

Save Settings​

Update the fields you need, then click Save at the bottom of the form. Values are written to the WordPress database for this application.

Save site settings

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Maintenance mode can be toggled from the Overview page. Standard application Settings in the application panel may include additional WordPress options outside WP Toolkit.