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The Global Configuration screen allows you to configure the Joomla site with your personal settings. Settings made in this screen apply to the whole site.

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Site Settings

• Site Name. Enter the name of your Web site. This will be used in various locations (e.g. the backend browser title bar and Site Offline pages).

• Site Offline. (Yes/No) Select whether access to the Site frontend is available. If Yes, the Frontend will display or not a message depending on the settings below.

• • Offline Message. (Hide/Use Custom Message/Use Site Language Default Message) Display or not a Frontend message when the site is offline. The custom offline message uses the value defined in the 'Custom message' field. The language offline message uses the value defined in the site language ini file.

• • Custom Message. The custom offline message will be used if the 'Offline Message' field is set to 'Use Custom Message'.

• • Offline Image. Select or upload an optional image to be displayed on the default offline page. Make sure the image is less than 400px wide.

• Inline Editing. (Modules & Menus/Modules/None) Select if you want inline editing for modules and menu items (support may depend on your template).

• Default Editor. (Editor - CodeMirror/Editor - None/Editor - TinyMCE) Select the default text editor for your site. Registered Users will be able to change their preference in their personal details if you allow that option.

• Default Captcha. (- None Selected -) Select the default captcha for your site. You may need to enter required information for your captcha plugin in Plugins.

• Default Access Level. (Public/Guest/Registered/Special/Super Users) Select the default access level for new items created on your site.

• Default List Limit. (5/10/15/20/25/30/50/...). Sets the default length of lists in the Control Panel for all users.

• Default Feed Limit. (5/10/15/20/25/30/50/...). Select the number of content items to show in the feed(s).

• Feed Email Address. (Author Email/Site Email/No Email) The RSS and Atom newsfeeds include the author's email address. Select Author Email to use each author's email (from the User Manager) in the news feed. Select Site Email to include the site 'Mail from' email address for each article.

• Block FLoC. (Yes/No) Send a header to not support the tracking through the FLoC method.

Metadata Settings

• Site Meta Description. Enter a description of the overall website that is to be used by search engines. Generally, a maximum of 20 words is optimal.

• Site Meta Keywords. Enter the keywords and phrases that best describe your website. Separate keywords and phrases with a comma.

• Robots. (Index, Follow/No index, follow/Index, No follow/No index, no follow) Robots instructions

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• Content Rights. Describe what rights others have to use this content.

• Show Author Meta Tag. (Yes/No) Show the author meta tag when viewing articles.

• Show Joomla! Version. (Yes/No) Show the Joomla version number in the generator meta tag.

SEO Settings

• Search Engine Friendly URLs. (Yes/No) Select if the URLs are optimised for Search Engines.

• • Use URL Rewriting. (Yes/No) Select to use a server's rewrite engine to catch URLs that meet specific conditions and rewrite them as directed. Available for IIS 7 and Apache.

***Apache users only: Rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess before activating. ***IIS 7 users only: Rename web.config.txt to web.config and install IIS URL Rewrite Module before activating.

• • Add Suffix to URL. (Yes/No) If yes, the system will add a suffix to the URL based on the document type.