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Site settings

The site address, its reference language, "Website under construction" mode, the email address that receives form submissions, the full copy of the site, sample images, and how to rename or delete a site.

The Settings section, at the bottom of the left-hand column of your site, brings together its general settings: address, language, visibility, forms, copy and sample images. Account settings (email, display language, legal identity) are elsewhere, in Global settings.

The site address

The publishable site has an automatic address, in the form s- followed by twelve characters. It belongs to its slot, even if you put another site there, works from the very first publication and can always be shared. A site in reserve has no address: this section, the domain and the full copy only appear on the publishable site (see Publishable Sites and Sites in Reserve). Instead, you can choose a subdomain in your own name (monrestau.wacapella.com): 3 to 63 characters, lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens, with no hyphen at the start or the end. It becomes active at the next publication, or immediately if the site is already online. The Check button tells you whether a name is available; a name is only reserved once it has been saved.

For an address entirely your own (monrestau.fr), connect a domain name: see Connect Your Domain Name.

The reference language

The reference language is the language of your content: starting texts, AI writing, the language declared to browsers. Changing it does not translate what has already been written. On a multilingual site, it becomes the source language for translations and addresses: a change requires republishing. See A Site in Several Languages.

Site under construction

Turn on Website under construction to show a holding page to your visitors, at every address of the site. Your content is kept and reappears as soon as you turn the mode off. Either way, the change takes effect at the next publication: remember to publish after flipping the switch.

The email address that receives form submissions

Messages sent by this site's forms arrive at your account email address. The address is shown here for reference; to change it, edit the account email in Global settings. See Forms.

The full copy of the site

You can download your site as standalone HTML files: pages, images, styles, published blog posts, and a small handler for your forms. No WebAcappella server is needed to display it, so you can host it wherever you like, or simply keep it. Click Prepare the copy, then Download (.zip). Only the publishable site can be copied.

  • The shop checkout is not included: it needs our servers to work.
  • If you request a new copy shortly after the previous one, the existing archive is served; a new version is prepared no sooner than one hour later, and only if the content has changed.

Renaming or deleting a site

Both of these actions are done from My websites, on the site's card: Rename website changes its internal name (not its address), Delete website erases pages, media and publication, after you confirm by typing the site's exact name. This deletion is permanent. Deleting the publishable site frees up its slot, which keeps its address and its domain name: see Publishable Sites and Sites in Reserve.

Sample images

Wherever a photo is missing, the writing tools and the assistant place an illustration from our AI-created image library until you add your own. Turn off Place sample images so that no more are added to the site: the slots stay empty until you put your own images there. Images already placed stay where they are, and you can replace them whenever you like.

The choice is made as soon as the site is created, on the presentation screen, where Only my images is offered by default to an artist. A site rebuilt from an existing address is created without sample images.