Site-specific settings
Some settings are specific to your site, meaning they are not available at the Global level and thus do not cascade down the hierarchy. These settings are only available at the Site level.
This topic was designed to be used in conjunction with Global site settings, which details all settings that exist at either the Global level only, or settings that exist at both the Global and Site levels.
Site-specific settings—Main tab
| Field | Description |
| SEO Display Name | Appends this value in the <title> tag to the asset's title. This is also the value used for the OpenGraph site name which appears in objects such as Slack snippets. For example, if you have an article Benefits of GraphQL, and in this field you add GraphQL API Site, then the title tag is <title>Benefits of GraphQL - GraphQL API Site</title>. |
| URLs | List of URLs that prefix all pages in this site. truncates any trailing slashes. For example, an entry https://www.example.com in this list creates URLs of the form https://www.example.com/example-page.For details, see Site URLs. |
Site-specific settings—Front-End tab
| Field | Description |
| Type Specific Overrides | |
| Type Specific Landing Page Content | Allows you to separately configure the layout of various landing pages. For example, your site displays a list of quotes on every landing page; however, for blog landing pages, you want to include a list of promos after the quote list. This field allows you to specify that you want to include additional assets (in this case, a list of promos) before, after, or instead of the content that is already configured on any given landing page (in this case, a list of quotes). |
| Authentication / Authorization | |
| Authentication Settings | Select the settings you configured to authenticate visitors. For details, see Understanding authentication and authorization in Brightspot. |
| Authorization Settings | Select the settings you configured to authorize visitors. For details, see Understanding authentication and authorization in Brightspot. |
| Content Discovery | |
| Front End Accessible Sites | Select the sites to which you want the current site's assets be available in dynamic results. For example, if the current site is Brightspot, and you select Example in this field, then a dynamically populated module on the Example site can include assets from the Brightspot site. |
| Sitemap Settings | |
| Site Map Types | Select the type of site map (Standard, News, or Video). Through these various supported sitemap formats, provides additional information about your images, videos, and news content to search engines. |
| News Site Map Name | Enter the name for the specific sitemap file that includes information about your website's news articles. |
| Site Map Default URL | The default URL used to build the links within the sitemaps. recommends that this be set to your public facing domain that you want search engines to crawl and index. Defaults to the site's current URL. For details on submitting a sitemap to Google, see Submit your sitemap to Google. |
Site-specific settings—CMS tab
| Field | Description |
| CMS Logo | Sets the logo that replaces the hyperlinked site name in the left of the header. For details, see Logo. |
| Preview URL | Sets the URL to be used when previewing assets. |
| Site Category | Assigns the current site to a specified site category. For details, see Creating site categories. |
| Calendar | |
| External Calendar Distributions | Configure the sources and types of items that populate integrated calendars. |
| Content Discovery | |
| All Sites Accessible | Makes assets from all other sites accessible to the current site in search. For example, the current site is Brightspot. There are three other sites: Example, GraphQL, and Editing Site. Toggling this setting makes all assets from these three sites accessible to editors working in the Brightspot site.For details, see Enabling asset sharing between sites. |
| Accessible Sites | Makes assets from specified sites accessible to the current site in search. For example, the current site is Brightspot. There are three other sites: Example, GraphQL, and Editing Site. Selecting GraphQL and Editing Site in this field makes all assets from those two sites accessible to editors working in the Brightspot site.For details, see Enabling asset sharing between sites. Will be overriden by All Sites Accessible field, if enabled. |
| Sites With Read Access | Permits other sites to read the current site's assets without having to switch to the current site. For example, the article Benefits of GraphQL is owned by the Brightspot site. Selecting the Example site in this field allows users in the Example site to view Benefits of GraphQL without having to switch to the Brightspot site.For details, see Sites widget. This setting controls which sites can read this site's content. |
| Localization | |
| Localization Badge Display | Displays locale badges in the following places to indicate the locale when creating new assets:
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| Available Locales | Locales into which assets in this site can be translated. For information about translating assets, see Sending an asset for translation. |
| Site Copier | |
| Allow Site Copy | Allows you to make a copy of this site. For details, see Copying a site. |
| UI | |
| Enable Enhanced SEO UI | Adds additional SEO fields and settings to a content type's SEO tab, it if has one. For details, see Configuring SEO for an asset. |
| Advanced | |
| CMS CSS Class | Adds an invisible CSS class that is inserted in the <head> element of the data object model. |
| Show Models Without Handlebars In Theme | Toggle on to hide content types in that are not supported by the current site's theme. |
| Always Generate Permalinks | Automatically generates permalinks when creating new assets. The permalinks are not published until the asset is published. |
| Single Generated Permalink | Forces the generated permalink to replace existing URLs.
Tip
This setting is helpful before a site is live, when the URL structure is still being adjusted.
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Site-specific settings—Integrations tab
| Apple News | |
| Default Channel | Create or select an existing Apple News Channel. For details on creating an Apple News Channel, see Creating or updating Apple News Channels. For details on associating an existing Apple News Channel to a site, see Assocating an Apple News Channel to a site. |
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