Step 12 - Reading WordPress Settings

Home Page

You'll need the home page you created earlier when doing this step.  Don't worry that the home page you made is just a placeholder. You will eventually fully design it in Bricks. Right now, for the Seed site, all you need is the placeholder home page you currently have.

Excerpts

By setting excerpts in feeds you make it slightly less convenient for people to steal your content (although they still can do so by other methods). 

Search Engine Visibility

You should set the search engine visibility to off to try to prevent your seed site from being indexed, or if you are building a real site, to prevent it from being indexed before you are ready.

Go to  Dashboard → Settings → Reading

Make changes to WordPress Reading Settings.

1. Your homepage displays
   Select A static page and select the temporary home page you created earlier in the drop-down.
2. For each post in a feed, include
   Set to Excerpt
3. Search engine visibility
   Check the box Discourage search engines from indexing this site.  
4. Save Changes