How to access and edit your Site Settings! From your Site Settings, you can edit various global settings for your Thinkific site.
In this article:
To Access your Site Settings:
- Go to your Admin Dashboard
- Select Settings
Site Name
Here you can change the name of your site. This will appear in your site header if you do not have a custom logo uploaded. You can think of your Site name as the title of your site or the name of your school.
To Edit Your Site Name:
- Go to your Admin Dashboard
- Select Settings
- Select Site details
- In the Site name field, input in your desired name
- Click Save
Site Emails
Here you can change the Reply to and Support emails associated with your site.
Thinkific has several automated emails that can be sent to your students including Site Welcome emails, Course welcome emails, etc. These automated emails are sent from noreply@notify.thinkific.com and if a student replies, you can define what email their email reply should go to!
To Edit Your Reply to Email:
- Go to your Admin Dashboard
- Select Settings
- Select Site emails
- In the Reply to email field, input in your desired email address
- Click Save
Students can also reach out for support when logged into their student account by selecting Support within the dropdown menu of their Student Dashboard:
To Edit Your Support Email:
- Go to your Admin Dashboard
- Select Settings
- Select Site emails
- In the Support email field, input in your desired email address
- Click Save
Site URL
When you first create your site, a default URL will be created that will be formatted like name-s-school-####.thinkific.com. You can customize the name-s-school-#### portion to anything you would like!
To Edit Your Site URL:
- Go to your Admin Dashboard
- Select Settings
- Select Site URL
- Click the ellipses (3 dot icon)
- Click Edit URL
- Update your URL
- Click Save
- Click Confirm
After editing your Site URL, you will automatically be logged out of your account and required to login again at the new URL. The previous URL will no longer work. If you have already shared your site URL and want to change it, we recommend setting up a Custom URL.
SSL Certificate
All Thinkific sites have SSL automatically activated. If you need to switch SSL on for your Thinkific site after contacting our Support team to temporarily disable SSL, you can do so from your Site Settings:
- Go to your Admin Dashboard
- Select Settings
- Select SSL Certificate
- Flip the switch to the right to Activate SSL
Remove Thinkific Branding
By default, your site will include "Powered by Thinkific" in your Footer as well as the side bar of the Course Player. Selecting this option will remove the Thinkific text. For more details see our article: Remove Thinkific Branding.
To Remove Thinkific Branding:
- Go to your Admin Dashboard
- Select Settings
- Select Remove Thinkific Branding
- Check off the box
- Select Save
Performance Checkout
This section of your settings is where you can opt-in to the new Performance Checkout. Opting in will allow you to take advantage of our latest improvements to the checkout experience. For more information, read our detailed comparison between the Performance Checkout and the Two-Step Checkout.
(Note that newer accounts may not see this setting, as the Performance Checkout was recently made the default checkout.)
Modify Site Text
This allows you to edit the the default text snippet that shows up on your site and in your banner for Private courses. The Private feature blocks enrollments from your site pages and your default Banner buy button will include the following message instead:
To customize this message:
- Go to your Admin Dashboard
- Select Settings
- Select Modify text: Site
- Click on the Product Pages tab
- Select Customize next to Interested in this course? Email us at [support_email_address]
- Input your desired message
- Select Save
If you are looking to Modify Site Text in other areas such as the Course Player, check out Modify Site Text for details.
More About Accessing Your Site and the Thinkific Interface
Access Your Site and General Navigation
Admin Dashboard: A Closer Look