Site settings
What are Site settings?
Site settings can be found by clicking on the first/upper icon (the cogwheel) in the editor menu.
Site settings are settings that - the name says it all - apply to the entire site. You set things here that apply to all pages of the site. If you click on the icon of site settings, you will see a number of sections. Below we explain for each section what information you can set or adjust.
Note that not all site settings are explained here. Some information is only useful to the developers of the website and therefore never needs to be adjusted.
1. Content
In the first tab called Content, you will find various settings related to the logo and the menu.
- Logo: Here you can upload the logo from the Media Library.
- Menu items: You can set up the menu here.
- New item: Click on + Add new Menu items to add a new item. Enter the title and then choose which page you want to link to this menu item. Select Content if you want to link to a page on your website, select Media if you want to link to a media file, and select URL if you want to link to an external page.
- Change item: Move your mouse over the item you want to change and click on the pencil icon.
- Delete item: Move your mouse over the item you want to delete and click on the trash can icon.
- Menu button text: This is the text that appears on the button at the top right.
- Menu button link: This is the page that the above button links to.
- Favicon: A favicon is the small icon that you see in a browser tab next to the page title. It is usually a simplified logo or symbol of the website. Choose the image from the Media Library.
- Social Media: Here you can set which social media channels are referenced. Select an existing channel from the list or add a new channel by entering the title, logo, and link.
- Loading logo: This is the logo that is displayed while the page is loading. Choose the image from the Media Library.
2. Technical
These settings are managed by Plate CMS. You do not need to change anything here.
3. HTML Snippets
HTML snippets can be added to the website in the site settings section. HTML snippets are small pieces of HTML code that ensure certain actions are performed ‘behind the scenes’ of the website. Think, for example, of Google Analytics, which can track visitor behavior (e.g., the number of times a certain button is clicked). But the code for a cookie notification could also be placed here, so that visitors see a cookie notification when they visit the website.
Depending on the type of snippet you want to place, use the <head> injection or <body> injection field. The provider or creator of the snippet will be able to indicate in which field you should place the HTML snippet.
If you do not use HTML snippets, these fields will remain empty. This does not affect visitors' use of the website.
4. Form
This section manages the form settings of the website. In the section Elements > Contact form, you can read more about how to add a contact form to the website.
- E-mail address: If you post a form on the Web site, you can set up who is the recipient of that form for that particular form. To that email address will be sent submissions that come in via that particular form.In Site Settings > Form, you can enter a fallback email address in the 'Email' field. This is the email address that the system can fall back to if no recipient email address is entered for a form. This ensures that no messages are 'lost' because they cannot be sent anywhere. Often you set a general email address here, e.g. info@topofminds.com.
- Success message: Enter here the message to be displayed when a contact form is successfully completed and submitted. This message is displayed near the submit button when the form is submitted.
- Error message: Enter the message to be displayed here if a contact form could not be sent. This is often caused by one or more fields of the form not being filled in correctly. In that case, this message will be displayed near the submit button at the moment the person filling out the form clicked the submit button. In addition, the field or fields that are not (correctly) filled in will light up, with an explanation of what went wrong.
- No file added yet: Enter here the text that appears if no attachment is uploaded in the contact form.
- Forgotten fields: Enter the text that appears here if you have not completed required fields.
- This field is required: If a field within a form is set as required, the system will check if the field is filled in before it can be sent. If the field is mandatory, but not completed, a message will appear next to that field. Enter the text that should appear for the field in question.
- The telephone number is invalid: The form field of the 'phone number' type has an automatic check. The moment someone has entered an invalid phone number here (too few or too many digits) and the submit button is clicked, a message appears next to this field. Enter the text that should appear in the phone number field at that moment.
- This date is invalid: The form field of type 'date' has an automatic check. When someone has entered an invalid date (e.g. no year) and the submit button is clicked, a message appears next to this field. Enter the text that should appear in the date field at that moment.
- Form logo: This logo will appear in all the confirmation emails send to the user who filled in the form.
5. Fonts
In this tab, you will find the settings for the website's font. Here, you can add an Adobe font link and set the font for headings and text.
These settings are usually managed by Plate CMS.
6. Algolia
These settings are for Index and Plate CMS. You do not need to change anything here.
8. Vacancy page
Much of the information on the vacancy pages is automatically filled in via the link. You can set a number of fixed fields here.
- Candidate profile text
- Job profile text
- Job profile description
- Apply form title
- Apply form description
- Apply form: This is the application form. You can customize the form here for all job vacancy pages. Add new fields, change the thank you page, or set up the confirmation email.
- Consultant text
- Filled vacancy text
9. Page not found
On this tab, you can adjust the settings for the 404 page. This page is displayed when a URL is used that does not exist (anymore).
- Title
- Description
- Buttons
- Background image