Your Movable Type blog settings include such details as your name and administrative email address plus blog options and plug-ins, such as adding a Yahoo! Search box to your blog pages and tracking your blog statistics. When you activate Movable Type using the custom path, you can select your blog options during the activation process; if you choose the standard path, we'll activate the most popular options for you. After you complete activation, you can modify your Movable Type blog settings anytime from your Blog Manager.

To change your settings, visit your Blog Manager:

1. Sign in to your Web Hosting Control Panel.
2. Visit the Manage tab.
3. In the first module, click the "Blog Manager" link.
4. On the following page, locate the module that corresponds with the blog you'd like to manage.

From your Blog Manager you can modify all of your blog settings:

• Click the "Edit blog settings" link in this module to visit the system-wide settings area of your blog control panel. (You will be prompted to sign in with your Movable Type user name and password if you haven't signed in already.)
• If you'd like to update your administrative email address, change your password, or change your password hint, click the "Edit blog settings" link, sign in to Movable Type if you haven't already, then click your Movable Type user name (the user name you chose when you installed Movable Type), located in the upper-right corner of the blog control panel.
• To modify your plug-ins, choose the "Manage plug-ins" link. (You will be prompted to sign in with your Movable Type user name and password if you haven't signed in already.) Learn more about modifying plug-ins.
• To change your upgrade options, click the "Edit" link next to your current upgrade option.

Learn more about Movable Type settings and plug-ins.

Updating Your Blog Manager Links

You Blog Manager contains links to your Movable Type control panel. Since the address of your Movable Type control panel is based on the directory that stores your administration files, when you move or rename this directory, you'll need to update Blog Manager if you still want to use it to access your blog tools.

1. In your Blog Manager module, click the "Did your links change?" link, then "update your Blog Manager links."
2. On the following page, enter the new web address associated with your blog administrative files. For instance, if you changed the name of your administrative files directory so that your blog control panel address changed from widgetdesigns.com/myblog-mt to widgetdesigns.com/movabletype, you'd replace myblog-mt with movabletype in the field provided. Be sure to enter the new web address of your blog control panel, not the web address of the blog itself.
3. Click "Update" to update your blog address and change your management links in the Blog Manager. If you're not sure you want to change your links, click "Cancel" to return to the Blog Manager.

(Note that any changes you make here will not be reflected on your Movable Type control panel.)