A Tour of the Settings Tabs
Settings is where you make the decisions that apply to your whole site, rather than to any one piece of content. It's organized into a handful of focused tabs — here's what each one actually does.
General
Your site's name and description, your logo and favicon, and links to your social media profiles (SynaptikCMS supports pulling in icons for most major platforms automatically). This is also where you set your site's language, and separately, the language your admin panel itself runs in — the two don't have to match, so you can manage your site comfortably in one language while it's published in another. Worth doing first, since it shapes how your site introduces itself everywhere.
Reading
Controls how your content is displayed as a collection rather than individually — how many articles show per page, and whether your articles and projects appear on the homepage at all. This is also where an admin can rename Articles, Pages, or Projects to something that fits your site better (like "Posts" or "Recipes"), including the web address that goes with the new name.
Writing
The everyday mechanics behind writing itself: your preferred date format, your site's timezone (so scheduled posts go live at the right moment for your actual audience, not the server's), and how autosave behaves — whether it's on, and how often it saves while you write.
SEO
Default settings for how your site presents itself to search engines and social media — a fallback title, description, and preview image used any time an individual piece of content doesn't have its own. Also where you can edit your robots.txt file directly, if you know what that is and need to change it; if you don't, the default is fine as-is.
Images
The quality and maximum size new uploads are automatically resized to, whether they're converted to a smaller, faster-loading format on the way in, and whether a smaller thumbnail version is generated alongside the full-size image. These same settings are what the Batch Image Optimizer applies when you run it against images already on your site.
Contact
Where submissions from your site's built-in contact form get sent, the subject line and confirmation messages visitors see, and optional anti-spam protection (a visible challenge for visitors to prove they're human) — nothing to fill in here if your theme or pages don't use the contact form at all.
Custom Fields
Where you define the schema for any custom fields your site uses — the extra pieces of information beyond the standard title, image, and body that your Articles, Pages, or Projects might need.
Users
Add, edit, or remove accounts for anyone else helping manage your site, and set what each of them is allowed to do. See Team Accounts & Roles for the full picture of what each role can access.