Click on the about:config link of the left menu in the administration interface to access the advanced settings.

Please note that many of these parameters can also be adjusted from the Blog settings page accessible from the Dashboard.

These parameters allow or disable comments and trackbacks for the whole blog.

The timezone of the blog.

Adds the rel="no-follow" property to the commenters' website links to prevent search engine robots to "follow" these links

Enables or disables the immediate publication of comments and trackbacks. If the selected option is "no", comments and trackbacks are kept offline until you publish or delete them.

Time before comments and trackbacks are disabled on an entry after the entry's publication. This value is a number of days. Enter 0 to remove any limit.

This field (which can't be enriched with html) lets you add a copyright notice to the syndication feeds. If you wish to display it in your pages as well, you can use the following template function:

{{tpl:BlogCopyrightNotice}}

Governs the way dates will be displayed. The available parameters are listed in the PHP Manual, but you can also find them in the Help panel of the Blog settings page (via the Dashboard).

This field lets you enter the name of person responsible for the content of the blog. This information will be displayed in the syndication feed details.

Enables or disables xhtml tag filters. When this option is activated, invalid xhtml tags included in entries are not interpreted.

Enables or disables the XML/RPC interface.

Blog language.

Maximum number of entries displayed on each page.

Template for entry-specific URLs.

Location of the media directory, relative to the index.php file of the blog.

Absolute location of the media directory from the root of your server.

Display short feed items. On has to come to the site to read the full text of entries and comments.

Theme selected for the blog's layout.

Location of the theme directory, relative to the index.php file of the blog.

Absolute location of the theme directory, from the root of your server.

Governs the way time is displayed. Mise en forme de l'affichage des heures. The available parameters are listed in the PHP Manual, but you can also find them in the Help panel of the Blog settings page (via the Dashboard).

If this option is activated, you are allowed to insert PHP code in your templates (simply using the <?php and ?> tags).

This setting will disable the template cache when set to "no".

URL reading method (path_info or query_string). If you wish to use path_info, please check that your hosting provider supports it.

Enables or disables graphic smilies (smileys) in entries and comments. The matches between texts and smilies can be found in the file dotclear/themes/default/smilies/smilies.txt .

Allows or prevents using wiki syntax in the comments.