I'm hoping some people can help me understand some of the settings in the Site Admin->Blogs->Edit Blogs panel (1.2.5a), and perhaps it can be added to the docs/codex afterwards.
If anybody can add LOTS of details to even one item, that would be helpful (both for me and for others).
SITE ADMIN -> BLOGS -> EDIT BLOG
URL http://
Main url of the site ex: mydomain.com
Q: How is this related to SITE URL below?
Path
The path to the blog (include slashes, but without the url) ex: /myblog/
Q: How is this related to SITE URL below?
Registered
The date the blog was registered.
Last Updated
The date the blog was last updated.
Public Yes No
Q: Played with this setting, but not sure what it does!?! Does this have to do with the blog being visible(public) to serach engines?
Archived Yes No
Q: What happens when this is set to yes?
Mature Yes No
Q: What happens when this is set to yes?
Spam Yes No
Q: What happens when this is set to yes?
Deleted Yes No
When a user chooses to delete their blog, it is flagged as deleted, but not actually deleted from the database.
Siteurl
The url and path to the blog. ex: mydomain.com/myblog/
Q: How does this relate to URL and PATH up above?
Blogname
Name of the blog.
Blogdescription
Description of the blog.
Users Can Register
Q: Does this turn on (1) or turn off (0) whether users can Self-Register (Users Can Register Themselves) for a blog?
Admin Email
This is the email that will receive notifications about the blog.
Start Of Week
0=Sunday 1=Monday ... 6=Saturday
Q: What is this used for?
Use BalanceTags
Q: What are these?
Use Smilies
Q: Does this turn on (1) or off (0) the the replacement of things like :) with emoticons?
Require Name Email
Q: Does this turn on (1) the requirement for a name and email for users that are registering?
Comments Notify
1=Notify admin of comments posted
0=Do not notify admin
Posts Per Rss
Don't know much about RSS, but obviously it
Mailserver Url
Mailserver domain. ex: mail.mydomain.com
Q: What is the mailserver used for?
Mailserver Login
Mailserver user login name.
Mailserver Pass
Mailserver user login password.
Mailserver Port
Port to use for mailserver. Usually port 80.
Default Category
The default category posts will get posted too.
Q: If set to 0 , will it post in the top level (no category)?
Q: Where do we find the category number associated with each category?
Default Comment Status
Q: What does this do?
Q: The defaul is OPEN. What other options are there?
Default Ping Status
Q: What does this do?
Q: The defaul is OPEN. What other options are there?
Default Pingback Flag
Q: What does this do?
Default Post Edit Rows
Q: What does this do?
Posts Per Page
How many posts you want displayed per page.
What To Show
Q: Is this what appears on the main page of the blog?
Q: Default is POSTS. What are the other choices?
Date Format
The date format, as used in PHP. See http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
Time Format
The time format, as used in PHP. See http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
Links Updated Date Format
The date format of updated links. See http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
Links Recently Updated Prepend
An HTML opening tag, to set the display style.
Links Recently Updated Append
The HTML closing tag for the tag above in PREPEND.
Links Recently Updated Time
Q: What does this do?
Comment Moderation
1=Comments must be approved before they get posted.
0=Comments will be posted immediately.
Moderation Notify
If comments need moderation, then send an email to admin user email to let them know there is a comment that needs to be approved.
Permalink Structure
How permalomls will be displayed.
Gzipcompression
Browser should use compression (if it supports it), when retrieving page.
Hack File
Q: What's this?
Blog Charset
The character set the blog should use. Default is utf-8.
Q: What are other choices available?
Moderation Keys
What's this?
Active Plugins
Plugins available for this blog.
Q: How do you specify them? Comma seperated? Do you use the name including the extension (like eventcalendar.php)?
Home
Q: How does this relate to URL, PATH, and SITEURL up above?
Category Base
Q: What's this?
Ping Sites
Q: What's this do?
Advanced Edit
Q: Advanced edit for what?
Comment Max Links
The maximum number of links allowed in a comment.
Gmt Offset
Your time offset from Greenwich Meantime.
Default Email Category
When posting by email, which category will it be posted too.
Q: If set to 0 , will it post in the top level (no category)?
Q: Where do we find the category number associated with each category?
Recently Edited
Q: What's this?
Use Linksupdate
Q: What's this?
Template
Either the directory or the name (not sure which) of the template file you want to use in the wp-content/themes directory.
Stylesheet
Either the directory or the name (not sure which) of the stylesheet file you want to use in the wp-content/themes directory.
Comment Whitelist
Q: What's this?
Page Uris
Not changeable
Blacklist Keys
Q: What's this?
Comment Registration
1=User must be registered to leave a comment
Html Type
Q: What are the options?
Use Trackback
1=Use trackback
Default Role
The default role of new subscribers.
Q: What are the options?
Db Version
Q: What's this?
Uploads Use Yearmonth Folders
1=Use the Yearmonth folder type for uploads.
Upload Path
Where uploaded files will actually go.
Secret
What's this?
Blog Public
Q: What's this, and how does it relate to the "Public Yes No" at the top of the list?
Default Link Category
Q: What's this?
Show On Front
Q: I think this determines whether it shows posts or a page on the front page. What are the actual options that can be here?
Fileupload Url
Q: What's this, and how does it relate to 'Upload Path' above?
Post Count
Q: What's this?
Rewrite Rules
Unchangeable.
Allowedthemes
Themes allowed with this blog.
Q: What is the proper format here?
New Admin Email
Q: What's this?
WPLANG
Q: What's this?
Language
Q: What's this?