General Settings

Update your system settings.

Enter journal title. Max 100 characters.

Enter email address. Used for certain email notifications. For example, journal notification of the 'admin/control/access.php' user. It is also the reply to email if not set in the SMTP settings.

HTTP path to journal/blog folder with trailing slash. For example:

http://www.example.com/blog/

Preferred language. See language section.

Preferred date format as supported by PHP. If you are unsure, do not change.

For supported parameters, click here.

Preferred time format as supported by PHP. If you are unsure, do not change.

For supported parameters, click here.

Preferred journal timezone. Overrides server settings. Add/manage timezones in:

control/timezones.php

When you click in date boxes a calendar appears, this is powered by javascript.


Specify preferred formats. Manage formats in:

admin/control/arrays.php

Specify week start day for calendar. For example, UK is Sunday.

Meta tags aren`t really necessary for search rankings these days, but adding them does no harm. Enter meta description.

Meta tags aren`t really necessary for search rankings these days, but adding them does no harm. Enter meta keywords, comma delimited.

Better urls for search engines. This should be enabled for better search rankings.

Example of url with search engine friendly urls OFF:

http://www.example.com/blog/?j=1

Example of url with search engine friendly urls ON:

http://www.example.com/blog/my-journal-entry

If this is enabled the 'htaccess_COPY.txt' file MUST be renamed to .htaccess

Default categories are pre-populated when you add a new journal.

If you wish to utilise the Maian Weblog API you must create an API key to use in your requests, this will determine if the requests are valid or not.

Click the icon to auto generate API key.

If set, logs all requests to 'logs' folder. Can be useful for debugging. Log folder location can be changed in the following file:

control/classes/class.api.php

If enabled, reduces database load. Instead of repeated database queries, data will be loaded from cached data. This is recommended.

If set, rebuilds cache folder after specified amount of time. Not necessary, but can help if cache files become corrupt.

For commercial version ONLY. Enter your own footer data. HTML can be used here, but only use valid HTML5 so as not to break the responsive system.

For commercial version ONLY. Enter your own admin footer data. HTML can be used here, but only use valid HTML5 so as not to break the responsive system.