Settings

Sections: Journal | Formatting | Blog | Comments | Upload

Saving will regenerate your static pages. This might take a few seconds.

Journal

Settings abut your Journal installation.

By default, Journal searches for updates on page load. If a new update exists a red dot next to "Settings" in the sidebar will appear - this can increase page load time. You can search for updates manually by going to "Search for updates" in the settings even after disabling automatic search.

Formatting

Journal tries to intelligentely and automatically format your text - this way you can focus on the interesting part: writing posts. You can enable and disable formatting methods if you want to.

Links will search for links to other pages in your text and turn them into clickable links. If disabled, all your links will not be clickable.
Markdown will convert Markdown to HTML. If disabled, no markdown will be converted.
If you do not use Markdown, it is adviced to disable it.
If you do enable Markdown it is advices to disable all other formatters, especially Links and Headings, as they can interfere with Markdown formatting
Heading will search for possible headings in your text an make them bigger.
Code will search for programming code in your post and format it accordingly. You should only enable this if you plan on adding code to your posts.

Blog

Settings abut your Journal blog.

The title will be used as a heading for your blog
Describe your blog in a few sentences
What is the URL your blog will be located at (e.g. https://example.com)
Changing this option after enabling comments can lead to a loss of all comments as post urls will change
Choose the language your blog is written in
Add a copyright text for your blog
Choose the language your blog is written in
Changing this option after enabling comments can lead to a loss of all comments as post urls will change
You can install new themes by dragging them into the themes/ folder
Pagination will split your homepage into multiple pages. This should be enabled if you have many posts to make your homepage less long.
Blog posts per pagination page. Pagination needs to be enabled first.

Comments

You can allow visitors on your site to comment on posts. As your blog pages are static you'll want to use a third-party provider to manage comments for you.

Choose a provider to supply comment support
Identifier/Authentification for your selected provider.
Disqus: Your identifier is the subdomain name before .disqus.com (e.g. my-blog-6.disqus.com, identifier is 'my-blog-6')

Upload

You can allow Journal access to your webserver so it can automatically upload your blog files to your server.

Choose an upload method to use when uploading the files.
Server to upload to (without method)
Only needed for (S)FTP. Port to use for the server. Leave empty for default port
Username to upload with or key for the AWS S3/DigitalOcean Spaces account
Password for the uploading user or secret key for the AWS S3/DigitalOcean Spaces account
Path on the server in which to upload the files to. Leave empty for /
Only needed for AWS S3 and DigitalOcean Spaces. Region of the bucket
Only needed for AWS S3 and DigitalOcean Spaces. Name of the bucket
Saving will regenerate your static pages. This might take a few seconds.
Search for updates New versions of Journal will add new features and remove bugs. Force static page regeneration Static pages will be automatically regenerated when you save a post. You only need to use this when you changed files. Upload files to server Journal will re-upload all your files to the specified server in the background.