The Advance Settings Plugin is a powerful plugin that adds several different configuration options to your blog for greater control over your site. 

Once you have activated the Advanced Settings plugin in Plugins > All, go to Settings > Advanced Settings to configure.

Cool things you can control or add using the Advance Settings Plugin include:

  • Category filter
  • Custom Post Order
  • Force Content/Excerpt
  • Featured Images
  • Titles
  • Comments
  • Performance
  • Responsiveness
  • Protection
  • Additional code

CATEGORY FILTER

Used to include or exclude post categories from different pages.

For example, you might want only posts assigned the category Class News to appear on the front page of your class blog and then use a custom menu to send posts assigned the categories Homework and Assignments to different pages using a custom menu.

To do this:

1. Select the Front page from under the All Pages drop down menu

2. Select Include

3. Select the check box next to the category Class News

4. Click Save Changes button at the very bottom of the page

5.Set up a custom menu to send posts assigned other categories to different pages

CUSTOM POST ORDER

Used to change order.

Options are:

  • Published date – descending
  • Published date – ascending
  • Notification date – descending
  • Notification date – ascending
  • Title – descending
  • Title – ascending

On the Edit Category page you’ll also see an option to change the order of a category. This allows you to order some categories by date and other category pages by alphabetical order.

You can change the order a specific category is displayed as follows:

1. Go to Posts > Categories.

2.  Click Edit underneath the category you want to change the order displayed.

edit category

3.  Select the order you want the category displayed and then click Update.

FORCE CONTENT/EXCERPT

Used to change between Excerpt or full content.

For example, the theme you are using may show full content on all pages but you want to display full posts only on the post page and post excerpts on the search page, the category page, the tag page, the date page and the author page.

FEATURED IMAGES

This is used to:

Automatically add the first image attached to a post as a featured image if a featured image is not set.  You might use this option if you've changed to a new theme and haven't added featured images to your posts. 

Disable featured images on list view pages such as your blog post page and on single view (the post page). You would use this option if you've changed to a new theme and needed to disable featured images.  For example, your previous theme required featured images to be used on the blog post homepage while the new theme displays better when the featured images are disabled.

featured image

TITLES

Used to remove the word ‘Protected’ or ‘Private’ from post titles.

titles

Below is what a private post title normally looks like:

And here is what the post title looks like when this option is selected.

COMMENTS

Used to disable comments on all posts and pages.

disable comments

PERFORMANCE

Used to disable Emoji scripts and styles loaded by  WordPress.

RESPONSIVENESS

Used to activate pinch zoom on mobile devices.

PROTECTION

Designed to help prevent readers from downloading files from your site.

protection

ADDITIONAL CODE

Allows you to add custom javascript code or css code in header section or footer section.

The Body Open section is visible, and can be used for adding Google Tag manager code, if you are using the theme Divi.

body open

The additional code option is used for Submitting your Site to Google for indexing.