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. Two parts are yours: General and Security. An Admin may also want Media usage tracking. This page covers all of them, and says plainly which of the rest to leave alone.

Go to Admin, then Settings. Only an Admin user can open it.

Everything on one screen. The two marked rows are the ones you will use.

1. General. Your business name, tagline and logo.

2. Security. Your own passkeys.

Click any row to open it. The arrow at the top left of the next screen brings you back here.

The admin panel is in English only. There is no language box.

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. The logo button. Puts a picture where your name is. It reads Select Logo when no logo is set, and Change Logo when one is, as in the picture. More on that below.

4. The favicon button. Sets the tiny picture in the browser tab. It reads Select Favicon when none is set, and Change Favicon when one is. More on that below.

Between them sits Site URL. That is your website’s own address. Your site uses it in the links it puts in emails and hands to Google. You cannot type in it.

Beside it is a Change domain button. It switches your website over to a new domain name, and that is our job. It checks that the new name really opens your website before it changes anything. Your domain name says when we use it, and what you notice afterward.

Under Site URL is Tell users where to sign in, with an Email users button. It emails everyone else who can sign in a link to the sign-in page at your address. Use it right after your domain changes. At any other time it only sends people an email they do not need.

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

There is a Save button at the top right. 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

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. If a logo is already set, the button reads Change Logo instead. 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.

To swap the logo, click Change Logo and pick the new picture. To go back to your business name in words, click Remove, then Save. Your website shows the name again on every page.

About the favicon

The favicon is the tiny picture in the browser tab, next to your page title. Phones also use it when someone saves your site to their home screen.

To set one, click Select Favicon and pick a picture from your library. Then click Save.

What makes a favicon work:

• Square. It is shown as a small square, so a wide logo gets squashed.
• Simple. At this size, a letter or a plain mark reads best. Words do not.
• Bold colors. Fine lines and pale shades vanish at this size.

Your own browser may keep showing the old picture for a while after you change it. Your visitors see the new one.

Social Links

Clicking Social Links here does not open a screen of its own. It opens the Business info tab of the SEO page, where your social profiles really live.

The icons in your footer come from the Social links card on that tab. Social Links explains it.

SEO

SEO is what search engines see. Clicking SEO here opens the Settings tab of the SEO page. That page explains every box: how page titles are put together, the picture shown when a page is shared, the codes that prove the site is yours, and which bots may read your site.

We set this up, and it is working. There is nothing to keep up to date.

Media usage tracking

This setting lets your Media library show where each file is used. Once it is on, every file gets a Used in tab that lists the pages and entries that show it. That tells you when a file is safe to delete.

It sits under the Media heading. Go to Admin, then Settings, then Media usage tracking. Only an Admin can turn it on.

1. Click Enable tracking.
2. A box asks Turn on media usage tracking? Read the list in it.
3. Check the box that says you have done those steps.
4. Click Turn on.
5. Keep the page open until the status reads Ready.

If the status reads Needs attention, stop. Do not keep clicking Retry setup.

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.

A passkey only works at the web address where it was made. When your website moves to a new domain name, you add a new one there. Your domain name explains.

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

A passkey belongs to the device it was made on. Your work laptop needs its own. So does your phone.

1. On that device, open your website and add /_emdash/admin to the address.
2. Sign in with an email link. Signing in has the steps.
3. Go to Admin, then Settings, then Security.
4. Click Add Passkey.
5. 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.
6. 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

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

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

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. Your website’s MCP server covers that, and it is the only page here that asks you to make one.

Email

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

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 copy you can switch on.

Downloading a copy for your own records is harmless. Everything else here is ours.

Transfer

Transfer moves a whole website from one place to another. It sits under the Email Settings heading, below Backups. Only an Admin user sees it.

This screen is ours. You will never need it to run your website.