How do you change the description of your blog?

horsechica33 · Member · Apr 9, 2015 at 8:10 pm
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How do you change the description of your blog?
My blog currently says “AllHorseStuff – learn, share, and shop.”
Ideally I’d like to change the name of the blog, but I don’t mind leaving it as AllHorseStuff, I just want to take the word “shop” out of the caption because it’s no longer an e-commerce store. “Learn and share” would be fine

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timethief · Member · Apr 9, 2015 at 8:15 pm
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Hi there,
That’s a Tagline (not a blog description) and it’s meant to be a very brief branding message. Your expanded blog description goes on your About page.

The Site title (blog name) and/or the optional Tagline can be changed on the top of this page at any time. > Settings > General … “save changes”.

That is exactly where search engine spiders look for the site title and removing it from there can cause issues with getting your content indexed. Note that the site title (blog name) and blog address URL do not have to be the same but it’s better for SEO (search engine optimization) if they are the same.

For tips see:
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/06/22/creating-an-effective-blog-tagline/
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/06/17/creating-an-effective-blog-description/
horsechica33 · Member · Apr 14, 2015 at 3:16 pm
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I checked Settings but it was only sharing settings. I can’t find general settings
timethief · Member · Apr 14, 2015 at 3:20 pm
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I guess you aren’t looking in the correct place.
This is your Admin link http://allhorsestuff.wordpress.com/wp-admin/
Dashboard > Settings > General

Here’s the link
http://allhorsestuff.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-general.php
timethief · Member · Apr 14, 2015 at 3:21 pm
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BTW you do, of course, have to be logged in as as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access that page.

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