§Configuration page overview

The configuration page sets defaults for all of your weblogs.

§Site Name

This determines the overall name for your website.

§Default Language

This is the default language for your site. This is the lingo you'll see when logging in, and also the language that will be set for new users. It is also the fallback language for Pivot that gets used when it cannot determine what language to use.

§Debug Options

If things don't work as expected, Pivot can show you what goes wrong. You don't need debugging for normal operation.

§Debug Mode

Turns debugging on or off. Useful if you run into problems. yes/no, defaults to no.

§Logfiles

Pivot can log several actions, i.e. creation of new entries etc. [[*]]. Also useful when you run into problems. yes/no, defaults to no

§File upload

You can use Pivot to upload files to your webserver, so no need to do that with FTP. In this version of Pivot, it's limited to images only. This functionality will be extended to movie clips, mp3 files and other media in a next release.

§File Upload Path

The path, relative to the frontpage of your weblog where Pivot puts your images.
Defaults to images/

§Overwrite

If you upload a file, and its name exists, what should Pivot do?
yes/no/increment filename, defaults to increment filename, i.e. add some autonumbering so files keep their unique filenames.

§Maximum Filesize

The maximum filesize Pivot will accept for an uploaded file.
Defaults to 5000000, approx. 5 Mb

Tip: if this doesn't work as expected, there could be a number of other, not Pivot-related reasons. Your hosting provider could have disabled file upload alltogether, or set is to a smaller size than 5000000, for instance.

§Automatic Thumbnails

Whether Pivot creates thumbnails of your uploaded images or not.

§Thumbnail Width

The maximum width of the thumbnails Pivot generates.

§Thumbnail Heighth

The maximum height of the thumbnails Pivot generates.

§Remote Cropping Script

Some servers don't have the necessary libraries installed to perform image cropping. If that's the case, you can enter a URL to another cropping script here.

Note: This isn't functional yet. Will be added in a next release.

§Date/Time Offset

If, for instance, you live in Denmark, but your server is in the United States, the time on your server is not the same time as at home. This can be annoying, since this time is used to calculate the dates under your entries.
Use this to tell Pivot the difference in time between your place and the server's.

§Time Offset Unit

How should Pivot measure the difference?
year/month/day/hour/minute, defaults to hour

§Time Offset

How many units to add or subtract from the server's time to get your time at home. For instance, noon in New York is 18:00 in Copenhagen. The time offset should be 6, since the New York server's Pivot should add 6 hours to it's local time to get Copenhagen time.
Defaults to '0'

§Ping Setup

Pinging is telling others you've updated your weblog. You do so by contacting another server. This server then visits your website and determines whether it has changed. Services like blogrolling.com depend on this.

§Ping Update Trackers

Whether to ping by default yes/no, defaults to yes

§URLs to ping

Where to ping to. Some defaults are already mentioned in this section. If you don't know which one to choose, stick to the most commonly used ones:

rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
ping.blo.gs

§Various Settings

§Use WYSIWYG by default

Wheter to use the built-in Wysiwyg editor, suitable for Internet Explorer, Mozilla 1.3+ / Firebird 0.6+. Other browsers are not able to use the Wysiwyg editor. (Note: This is not because we do not want to provide it for other browsers, but because those browsers simply do not support the used technology)
yes/no, defaults to no

If you choose not to use the WYSIWYG editor by default, you'll get a nice plaintext editor to edit your entries.

§Default Text Processing

Determines the default text processing, when a user is using the non-wysiwyg editor. 'Convert Linebreaks' does nothing more than change linebreaks to a <br />-tag. Textile is a powerful, yet easy to learn markup style.
none/convert linebreaks/textile, defaults to convert linebreaks

§Open links in new window

Determines if all links used in entries will open links in a new browser window.
yes/no, defaults to no

§Use Filesmatch

Whether you want to use Apache's filesmatch to create nifty URL's, like www.mysite.com/archive/2003/05/30/nice_weather, instead of www.mysite.com/pivot/entry.php?id=134. Since this feature requires mod_rewrite to be set in the webserver's config, it cannot be used on all servers. In the appendices you'll find a more detailed description of the uses of filesmatch.
yes/no, defaults to no

§Autoupdate Search Index

This will determine if the Search Index files will be updated every time you submit a new entry, or you change an existing one.
yes/no, defaults to yes