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What are some of the settings you ALWAYS change on a fresh install?

September 20, 2008 2:42am

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  • #1 / Sep 20, 2008 2:42am

    OrganizedFellow

    435 posts

    Section Designation Word
    section instead of weblog, just makes more sense!?

    Use Category URL Titles In Links = yes
    far more user friendly to see them instead of C1, C2, C3, etc.

    Word Separator for URL Titles = dash
    just looks nicer?

    Versioning Preferences = yes
    for that one rare instance when working on a site and just want to make a quick change without firing up Notepad++.

    Default HTML Buttons
    i get rid of the old <b><i><u>, and replace them with <strong><em><ins><del>

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    So what are some of the settings you ALWAYS change on a fresh install?

  • #2 / Sep 20, 2008 4:17am

    Ingmar

    29245 posts

    In no particular order:

    - use cookies for both the frontend and the backend, no session ids
    - enable template versioning, keeping 10 revisions
    - remove the default theme, template groups, categories and the first weblog entry
    - turn off trackbacks and RDF globally

    I actually have a little SQL file that does this for me. You can have, too 😊

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