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General Settings: Configuring Your Website

Last updated on May 20, 2026 22:15

The Settings Hub is the control room for your entire PolyCMS installation. While you will spend most of your time writing content or managing products, the configurations you set here dictate how the system behaves globally.

To access the core configurations, navigate to Settings > General.

Site Identity

This is the most critical section for your brand and basic SEO.

  • Site Title: The official name of your website (e.g., "TechCrunch" or "Acme Corp"). This is heavily used by search engines and appears in the browser tab.

  • Tagline: A short, punchy sentence explaining what your site does.

  • Admin Email Address: The system uses this address for core administrative notifications.

Regional and Language Settings

If you are running a business, ensuring your time and language settings are correct is vital for scheduling posts and processing orders accurately.

  • Site Language: PolyCMS supports multi-language interfaces. Changing this will update the default language used for core system messages on the frontend.

  • Timezone: Select a city in the same timezone as your primary business operations. This ensures that when you schedule a blog post to publish at 8:00 AM, it actually publishes at your 8:00 AM, not server time.

  • Date & Time Format: Choose how you want dates to display publicly on your blog articles (e.g., F j, Y for "August 24, 2026").

Permalinks (SEO URLs)

Permalinks are the permanent web addresses of your individual pages and posts. By default, systems often use ugly URLs with question marks and numbers. PolyCMS allows you to make them human-readable.

Navigate to Settings > Permalinks to configure this.

You should always select a structure that uses the post title (the slug).

  • Recommended: Post name (https://<a href="//polycms.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">polycms.org</a>/sample-post/)

  • This is the cleanest, most professional, and most search-engine-friendly option. It tells Google exactly what the page is about just by reading the URL.

You should configure your Permalinks immediately after installing PolyCMS. Changing your permalink structure later on an established website can break all existing links shared on social media and harm your search engine rankings.

Editor Panels Settings

PolyCMS features a highly customizable Admin UI. If you go to Settings > Editor Panels, you can actually customize the layout of the Post and Product editor screens for your own account.

You can drag and drop sections (like the SEO box or the Featured Image box) to rearrange them, ensuring that the tools you use most often are right at the top of your screen.