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The General Settings let you change many of the items that control how your blog is displayed, such as the title, tagline, timezone, and date/time formats. Click Settings from the left hand menu in your Dashboard to access these settings.

The first setting you will see is Site Title. The Site Title is displayed in the title bar of a web browser and is displayed in the header for most themes.

Tagline is next and is a short description or catchy phrase to describe what your blog is about. Some themes will display the tagline in the header or in the sidebar.

The Email Address is where all comment moderation emails are sent. This can be different from the email address used for blog activity notifications. Learn more about email notifications.

Timezone is set to Coordinated Universal Time, UTC by default, which is in London, UK. If you live in a different area of the world you will likely want to change this option. The current UTC time is listed to the right to make it easier to determine your timezone offset. As an example, when Daylight Saving Time is not going on, Boston, MA would be UTC-5. You can find the timezones of many cities here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock

The Date Format lets you select how you want dates will be displayed on your blog. Several popular choices are available as well as a custom option.

Time Format is just like date format, but sets how times will be displayed on the blog.

The Week Starts On setting, is only used if you are using the calendar widget. This setting allows you to select what day is displayed in the first column of the calendar.

The Language option lets you select the language to use for some of the theme text shown to your blog visitors. If you select an RTL language (for example, Hebrew), then the theme’s layout will mirror itself so that the text can be read properly from right to left.

The Blog Picture (or Blavatar as we like to call it) allows you to upload a picture to be used as your blog image across WordPress.com. This image will be used as the favicon you see to the left of the URL in the address bar and for any pingbacks or trackbacks sent out from your blog.

Last modified: February 7, 2012