Blog settings

#### Blog details

Blog ID
  Unique ID of the blog. Mandatory, can only be modified by a super administrator.
Blog name
  Name of the blog, mandatory. It can be modified at any time without any impact on the blog operation.
Blog URL
  Full blog URL. Mandatory, can only be modified by a super administrator.
URL scan method
  Defines the way the URL is read. PATH_INFO is recommended, QUERY_STRING has to be used if PATH_INFO does not work. Using PATH_INFO mode, the blog URL must end with a "/" and using QUERY_STRING, it must end with an "?".
Blog status
  - Online: Blog open to visitors.
  - Offline: Blog closed to visitors but open to writers.
  - Removed: Blog closed to both visitors and writers, open only to super administrators.
Blog description
  Here you can put any description you want for your blog. This is a simple text, without any formatting.

#### Blog configuration

Blog editor's name
  Name of the person responsible for the blog. It may be the owner or the publisher if there is one. This information will be displayed in the blog feed.
Default language
  Language of the blog interface. Either this language is amongst the avalaible ones, and the interface will be translated, or it is not, and the interface will be in English by default.
Blog timezone
  Defines the timezone that will be used for comments and trackbacks.
Copyright notice
  Note about the reproduction rights for the blog.
New post URL format
  Dropdown list to select the URL format.
HTML tag for the title of the notes on the blog
  Dropdown list to select an HTML tag.
XML/RPC interface
  Allows external clients to interact with your blog via the XML/RPC protocol. After activation the required parameters to be set in your external clients are displayed.

#### Comments and trackbacks

Accept comments
  Globally accepts comments on the blog. Takes precedence over the per post setting.
Moderate comments
  With this option, comments will be published only after editor's agreement.
Leave comments open for X days
  The number of days during wich comments will be open after the post publication. When empty, the comments will be kept open indefinitly.
Wiki syntax for comments
  Allows a subset of the wiki syntax to be used in comments.
Accept trackbacks
  Globally accepts trackbacks on the blog. Takes precedence over the per post setting.
Moderate trackbacks
  With this option, trackbacks will be published only after editor's agreement.
Leave trackbacks open for X days
  The number of days during wich trackbacks will be open after the post publication. When empty, the trackbacks will be kept open indefinitly.
Add "nofollow" relation on comments and trackbacks links
  Adds an attribute on links in comments and trackbacks, instructing the search bots not to follow them. This antispam features has yet to prove its value.

#### Blog presentation

Date format
  Defines the date format for the blog posts. See the "Format reference" section below for more information. You can use the dropdown list to quickly select a pre-existing pattern.
Time format
  Defines the time format for the blog posts. See the "Format reference" section below for more information. You can use the dropdown list to quickly select a pre-existing pattern.
Display smilies on entries and comments
  Turns some strings like :-) or ;-) into pictures.
Display X entries per page
  Will display X entries on the blog main page as well as in the different categories.
Display X entries per feed
  Will display X entries in the blog feeds.
Display X comments per feed
  Will display X comments in the blog comments feeds.
Truncate feeds
  This option will only provide an abstract from the blog posts in the feeds.
Include sub-categories in category page and category posts feed
  When this option is activated, posts in sub-categories will be displayed in the parent categories pages as well as in their feeds.

#### Media and images

Generated image sizes (in pixels)
  When you add an image in the media manager, other sizes are automatically generated. Here you can define the dimension of the longest size (width or heigth) of each type of generated images. If you leave one field empty, the media manager will not create the corresponding miniature.
Default image insertion attributes
  The selected settings will apply on all the new images added to the media manager.
Inserted image title
  Select the format of the "title" tags applied to your images, based on information retrieved from the images metadata.
Use original media date if possible
  When this option is activated, if the image metadata contains a date, it will be used. If not, the upload date will be used.
Size of inserted image
  Defines the default size used when inserting an image in a blog post.
Image alignment
  Defines the default alignment used when inserting an image in a blog post.
Insert a link to the original image
  When this option is activated, the pictures inserted in a blog post will be clickable and point to the original-sized picture.

#### Search engines robots policy

Here you can indicate if you want Web search engines to index and/or archive your pages or not. Select the last option if you do not want people to be able to find your blog using a Web search engine.

#### Antispam

You can set the number of days after which you want the junk comments to be automatically deleted. Leave that field blank (or put 0) to deactivate this feature.

#### Users

Lists this blog's users as well as their permissions.

### Format reference

Some fields can be configured to format the date and time to your needs. Here is a reference:

- %a: Abreviated week day (local).
- %A: Complete week day (local).
- %b: Abbreviated month name (local).
- %B: Complete month name (local).
- %c: Default local date and time display.
- %C: Century (the year, divided by 100 and round up beetween 00 and 99)
- %d: Numeric month day (from 01 to 31)
- %D: Identical to %m/%d/%y
- %e: Numeric month day (from 1 to 31)
- %g: Identical to %G, 2 digits.
- %G: The year on 4 digits, according to the week number (cf. %V). Format and value identical to %Y, except that if the number of the week belongs to the preceding or following year, the current year will be used instead.
- %h: Identical to %b
- %H: Digital hour of the day, 24H mode (from 00 to 23)
- %I: Digital hour of the day, 12H mode (from 01 to 12)
- %j: Day of the year, digital (from 001 to 366)
- %m: Month, digital (from 1 à 12)
- %M: Minute, digital
- %n: Newline character
- %p: Either `am' or `pm', according to the absolute time, or depending of the local settings.
- %r: The hour, a.m. and p.m. format
- %R: The hour, 24h format
- %S: Seconds, digital
- %t: Tab character
- %T: The current time (identical to %H:%M:%S)
- %u: Day week, digit, from 1 to 7. (1 stands for monday)
- %U: Week number, the first Sunday of the year being the first day of the first week.
- %V: The week number as defined in ISO 8601:1988, digital, from 01 to 53. The week 1 is the first week with more than 4 days in the current year, whose Monday is the first day. (Use %G or %g for the year elements corresponding to the number of the week for the considered timestamp.)
- %W: Number of the week in the year, the first Monday of the year being the start of the first week
- %w: Day of the week, digital, 0 stands for sunday
- %x: Prefered format for the date without the time
- %X: Prefered format for the time without the date
- %y: The year, two digits (from 00 to 99)
- %Y: The year, four digits
- %Z or %z: Timezone, name or abbreviation
- %%: A litteral `%' character