Settings
Settings holds the things that are true of your whole website, rather than of one page: its name, its logo, who may sign in with a passkey.
Most of it was set up when we built your site, and most of it never needs touching again. Three parts are yours: General, Security and Language. This page covers all of them, and says plainly which of the rest to leave alone.
Go to Admin, then Settings.
Everything on one screen. The three marked rows are the ones you will use.
1. General. Your business name, tagline and logo.
2. Security. Your own passkeys.
3. Language. The language of the panel. It sits at the bottom of this screen, not behind a row of its own.
Click any row to open it. The arrow at the top left of the next screen brings you back here.
General
Section titled “General”This is your website’s name badge. Go to Admin, then Settings, then General.
Four boxes matter here. The rest is ours.
1. Site Title. Your business name. It shows at the top left of every page of your website, again at the bottom, and in the browser tab.
2. Tagline. One short line about what you do. It shows in the footer, just under your name. Search engines may show it under your name too, so write it for a stranger.
3. Select Logo. Puts a picture where your name is. More on that below.
4. Select Favicon. Your website does not use this. Leave it alone.
Between them sits Site URL. That is your website’s own address, and we set it. Changing it does not move your website. It only confuses the links your site hands to Google.
Under all of that is a block headed Reading, holding Posts Per Page, Date Format and Timezone. We set those to suit your site. There is nothing to gain by changing them.
Saving here
Section titled “Saving here”There is a Save button at the top right, and another at the bottom. It reads Saved when there is nothing waiting.
Type your change, then click it. That is the whole job. There is no Publish on this screen: your website changes the second you save.
About the logo
Section titled “About the logo”A logo replaces your business name, in the bar at the top and in the footer. Both places, always. You cannot have the picture in one and the words in the other.
To set one, click Select Logo and pick a picture from your library. Media covers the picker and how to upload.
What makes a logo work here:
- Wide, not square. It sits in a narrow bar. Roughly three times as wide as it is tall is a safe shape.
- A see-through background. A PNG file with no background sits cleanly on your header. A photo with a white box around it looks like a sticker.
- Readable when small. On a phone it is about the size of a thumbnail. If you cannot read it at that size, nor can your customer.
- Not a photo. Photos go on your pages. A logo is a mark.
Once a logo is set, the button changes to Change Logo, with Remove beside it.
Social Links
Section titled “Social Links”This screen holds boxes for a Twitter handle, a Facebook name, an Instagram name and so on.
Your website does not read them. The icons in your footer come from a different screen: Content, then Social Links. See Social Links for the one that works.
SEO is what search engines see. This screen holds the settings for that: how page titles are put together, a fallback picture for when your page is shared, and two boxes for proving to Google and Bing that the site is yours.
We set this up, and it is working. There is nothing to keep up to date.
Security
Section titled “Security”This is where your own passkeys live. A passkey is your phone or your laptop standing in for a password. Signing in explains them.
The screen shows your passkeys only. Nobody else’s.
Go to Admin, then Settings, then Security.
This account has none set up yet. Yours will list one row per device.
1. Add Passkey. Sets this computer up so you can sign in with it.
Each passkey you have gets a row. The row carries the name you gave it, whether it is tied to this one device or shared through your password manager, and when it was last used. Two buttons sit on the row: Rename and Remove.
Adding a passkey on another device
Section titled “Adding a passkey on another device”A passkey belongs to the device it was made on. Your work laptop needs its own. So does your phone.
- On that device, open your website and add
/_emdash/adminto the address. - Sign in with an email link. Signing in has the steps.
- Go to Admin, then Settings, then Security.
- Click Add Passkey.
- Give it a name you will recognize later, such as
Office laptop. The name is optional, but an unnamed passkey is no use to you in a year. - Click Register Passkey, then follow what your device asks: your fingerprint, your face, or your PIN.
The new passkey appears in the list. From now on that device signs you in without an email.
Removing a passkey
Section titled “Removing a passkey”Do this for a phone you have sold, or a laptop you no longer use.
Click Remove on the row. The panel asks you to confirm and tells you that you will not be able to sign in with that passkey again. Click Remove.
You can always set that device up again later. It is a new passkey, not the old one back.
Self-Signup Domains
Section titled “Self-Signup Domains”This screen can let anybody with an email address at a given company sign themselves up to your admin panel, with no invitation.
It is empty, and it should stay empty. Everyone who works on your site is invited by name on the Users screen.
API Tokens
Section titled “API Tokens”A token is a long password that lets another program talk to your website without a person signing in.
Your list starts out empty, and most sites never need a token at all. There is one common reason to make one: an AI assistant that cannot sign in for itself. Connect your AI covers that, and it is the only page here that asks you to make one.
This screen shows whether your website can send email, and offers a test message.
The setup itself lives elsewhere, on the Email Transport screen, and that page explains it.
Backups
Section titled “Backups”A backup is a copy of your website’s content, kept in case something goes very wrong.
We already keep backups of your site. This screen is a second, self-service copy: a Download backup button, and a daily one you can switch on.
Downloading a copy for your own records is harmless. Everything else here is ours.
Language
Section titled “Language”At the bottom of the Settings screen is a box reading English.
It sets the language of the admin panel: the menu, the buttons, the words on these screens. Pick yours and the panel changes at once.
Your website is not touched. Your pages stay in the words you typed, and visitors see no difference at all. It is your view of the panel, nothing more.
Checked against EmDash 0.34.0 and Lookout Ridge IT template 0.11.8 on August 21, 2026.