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The top section of the General tab contains the archiving options for your blog, in which you can customize the archiving behavior, if used. By default, archiving is active. Disabling it will cause RapidWeaver to keep all of your blog's posts on the same page, growing longer with each blog entry you add. If enabled, archiving will move all your old posts to separate pages, keeping only the current week's or month's posts on the main page, as selected in the "Archive by" popup menu. You can also set the minimum number of posts that must appear on the main blog page before older posts are archived, and whether or not to show gaps in your archived posts.

Blog - Setup: General Tab

The middle section of the General tab allows you to enable Permalinks in your blog and to set the Permalink's link title. If you use summaries in your blog entries, you may choose whether the Permalink points to the summary rather than the blog entry itself by clicking the "Include Summary" checkbox. When published, the Permalink will point to the summary, which will include a Read more... link to the full blog entry. You may also change the Read more... link's wording by typing a word or phrase of your own choosing. This will become the system-wide link phrase when used in summaries in your blog.

The bottom portion of the General tab allows you to enable Comments in your blog entries, allowing visitors to post feedback for your blog posts. To enable blog comments, you must first sign up with Haloscan, a free comment-tracking service for bloggers. Once you have an account, enter your Haloscan username into the "Username" field and enable comment feeds by clicking the "Enable" checkbox. If you want to change the name of the comment feed's RSS link that appears in the sidebar, type it into the "RSS Link" field. Once commenting is enabled, you will see "Comments (0) | Trackback (0)" appear under each entry in your blog. As comments and trackbacks are added, the values in the parentheses will increment. By default a link labeled "Comments Feed" will appear in the sidebar of your blog page. Visitors who click this link will be taken to your user account page on Haloscan, showing all of your visitors comments. You can prevent the link from appearing in your sidebar by removing the text from the "RSS Link" field on the "General" tab.

NOTE: You can manage your comments and the look of the pop-up-window by logging into the members area on Haloscan. Instructions on how to integrate commenting with Haloscan can be found here.