Settings

How your publication runs: time zone, the homepage, and what search engines see.

Everything readers see — logo, colours, site name, footer, social links — is in Appearance. Settings holds the rest. Press Save when you're done.

Time zone#

Under Publication, the Time zone decides what "today" means: story times, scheduling, ePaper dates, and the days in analytics and ad numbers.

ePaper as your homepage#

Shown when your site has the ePaper. Switch on Use the ePaper as your homepage if you publish only an ePaper: your site opens straight on the latest edition, with the calendar and older editions one click away.

• Until your first edition is published, the news homepage shows instead.
• Your stories, sections and pages keep working at their own addresses.

Search engines#

• Page title format — how page titles appear in Google and browser tabs. %s stands for the page's own title: %s | Your Site gives *Budget 2026 | Your Site*.
• Homepage description — the line Google shows under your site's name, in each language. About 150 characters. Leave it empty and your tagline is used.
• Google Search Console verification — paste only the code from the verification tag Google gives you (the part inside content="…").

1. In Google Search Console, add your site and choose the HTML tag method.
2. Copy the value inside content="…" and paste it here. Press Save.
3. Back in Search Console, press Verify.