Your WordPress 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 WordPress 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 WordPress blog settings anytime from your Blog Manager.

To change your settings:

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 (we'll create one Blog Manager module for each WordPress blog in your site).

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 WordPress user name and password if you haven't signed in already.)
• If you'd like to update your administrative email address or change your password, click the "Edit blog settings" link, sign in to WordPress if you haven't already, then click "Users." You can change your settings in the "Your Profile" tab.
• To modify your plug-ins, choose the "Manage plug-ins" link. (You will be prompted to sign in with your WordPress user name and password if you haven't signed in already.)
• To change your upgrade options, click the "Edit" link next to your current upgrade option.

Learn more about WordPress blog settings and plug-ins.

Updating Your Blog Manager Links

You Blog Manager contains links to your WordPress control panel. Since the address of your WordPress control panel is based on your installation directory, when you move or rename your installation 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 installation directory so that your blog control panel address changed from widgetdesigns.com/myblog to widgetdesigns.com/wordpress, you'd replace myblog with wordpress in the field provided.
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 WordPress control panel.)