General Settings

Owned by Zihni Artar
Last updated: Aug 01, 2023
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In the section General Settings, you can edit global settings for several areas. There won't be an explanation for every setting, as some of them are self-explanatory. If the setting you are looking for isn't documented, hover over the space between the title and input field of the setting. A question mark will appear, containing a hint about the usage of this setting.

General

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Store closed

With this option, you can close the shop for maintenance purposes.

Allow an admin to view the closed store

If this option is activated, a user that's assigned to the administration group can see the shop even though it is closed.



SEO Settings

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Page title separator

Specify page title separator. This separator will separate the shop name from the page name.

Page title SEO adjustment

Select a page title SEO adjustment. For example, the generated page title could be (Page Name | Yourstore.com) instead of (Yourstore.com | Page Name).

Default title

The default title for pages in your store.

Default meta keywords

The default meta keywords for pages in your store. You can override these for individual categories/products/ manufacturer pages.

Default meta description

The default meta description for pages in your store. You can override this for individual categories/products/ manufacturer pages.

Convert non-western chars

Check the box to take out the accent marks in the letters of SEO names while keeping the letter.

Enable canonical URLs

 

The goal of the canonicalization process is to transform a URL into a canonical URL so that it is possible to determine whether two syntactically different URLs are equivalent.

Canonical host name rule

Enforces permanent redirection to a signal domain name for a better page rank.

Extra Disallows for robots.txt

Enter additional paths that should be included as Disallow entries in your robots.txt. Each entry has to be entered in a new line.



Security Setting

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Encryption Private Key

The encryption private key used for storing sensitive data.

Admin Area Allowed Ip

IP address allowed to access the backend. Leave this field empty if you do not want to restrict access to the backend. Use a comma to separate each of them.

Hide Admin Menu Items Based On Permissions

Hide admin menu items when access to them is denied according to the access control list (permissions).

CAPTCHA Enabled

Check the box to enable CAPTCHA.

CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them — colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from "bots," or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot submit forms protected by CAPTCHAs. Smartstore uses reCAPTCHA provided by Google. So, before you can use CAPTCHA to protect your forms, you will have to register your site for the Google service. After you've done so, Google will provide a public and a secret key which you have to enter in the fields reCAPTCHA public key and reCAPTCHA private key respectively.

Attention

There are two different versions of the reCaptcha.
Version "2" and version "3" (invisible).
Activate "Use invisible reCAPTCHA" only if version 3 has been created at Google.
As a precaution, activate the captcha first only for the contact page and not for the login pages.



Show On Pages

If you have enabled CAPTCHA, you will get a number of options for several pages on which customers can submit forms to your shop. With these options, you can enable or disable CAPTCHA for each of these forms.

Localization Settings

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Load All Language Resources On Startup

When enabled, all language resources will be loaded on application startup. The application start will be slower, but pages will be opened much faster.

Seo Friendly Urls With Multiple Languages Enabled

When enabled, your URLs will be http://www.yourStore.com/en/ or http://www.yourStore.com/de/ (SEO friendly).

Default Language Redirect Behavior

Specifies the redirect behavior when a page is requested in the default language (the default language is the first active store language).

Invalid Language Redirect Behavior

Specifies the redirect behavior when the given SEO code is invalid or the corresponding language does not exist or is unpublished.

Use Images For Language Selection

Check the box if you want to use images for language selection.

Detect Browser User Language

Specifies whether the visitor's browser language should be detected and assigned on his/her first visit (when inactive, the default store language will be assigned).

Pdf Settings

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Enabled

Check the box to enable pdf.

Use Letter Page Size

If selected, this option uses the letter page size for PDF documents. Otherwise, the A4 page size is used.

PDF Logo

Image file that will be displayed in PDF order invoices. A small image is recommended.


Company & Contact Data

You can enter all company specific data here (e.g. company address, e-mails, phone number, bank account data, etc.). This data will be displayed in several places all over your shop such as the footer, order confirmation e-mails, pdfs, etc..

Social Networks

In the tab social networks, you can determine whether to show any social networks, and you can enter all the URLs to your social network channels. If you don’t want a particular social network icon to be shown, just leave the field blank.

Full Text Settings

In this tab, you can set up Full Text Search. Your SQL server has to support the MS SQL Server feature Full Text Search. If your server does not support this feature, Smartstore will detect this and display a corresponding message. 

Full text search works faster than the normal search function if big volumes of data are involved, and it gives you the opportunity to control the search results.

  • Exact match (using CONTAINS with prefix_term):  Results match the entered words exactly in the order they are entered

  • Using CONTAINS and OR with prefix_term: Results contain one of the entered words 

  • Using CONTAINS and AND with prefix_term: Results contain all of the entered words, which don't have to be found in the exact order they are entered