Change General WordPress setting such as date/time format, date/time zones, title, tagline (description), URL (www), notification e-mail address

1.  Title.  Very Important.  Think relevance and uniqueness.

2.  Tagline or Description.  Also very important.  Use a short descriptive abbreviated sentence.  This is similar to a websites Meta Description so also want to think about quality, relevance, and uniqueness.

3.  WordPress and Site URLs.  This is set-up during the WordPress installation and is dependant on where you installed wordpress on your web server.  99% of web servers recognize and redirect for www. or non www URLs, but I recommend changing the root path to www.yoursite.com.  Whatever your choice, it is best to leave alone once set to avoid canonical content duplication and improve search engine indexing.

4.  Admin Email.  The email address you would like all admin related communications from WordPress to go, such as comment approvals and subscrition notifications, etc.

5.  Membership and New User default role.  This is the default access control permissions provided to new users who are added or sign up to become editors of your WordPress site.  You can also change this in the Users settings and on a per request basis.

6.  Time Zone.  Set this to your preferred local time, EST, PST, etc.  It is universal time (greenwich or also known as Zulu) + or – some odd hours.

7.  Date and Time format is pretty self-explainatory.

8.  Weeks start on.  This is used for WordPress archiving functionality and for time/date dependant plugins such as statistics. 

Quick video on the WordPress General Settings Page:

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