Site settings
Click the Settings (gear) icon in a Site's header to open its settings. Workspace admins can edit; other roles see the settings read-only with a note to contact an admin.
Choose your Workspace in Flowpane, open the Site from the dashboard, then choose Settings in its header. Sign in if prompted. Each Site has its own settings URL, so this link opens the selector rather than a particular Site.
General
- Site name — the display name
- Domain — read-only after the Site is added
- Declared platform — your statement of the CMS or framework, with a custom name option. Flowpane's own observation is shown alongside and never overwrites it. See Platform detection.
- Industry and Region / country
- Status and Site ID — read-only; the ID can be copied for support requests
Site capabilities are checkboxes describing what the site does: Advertising, E-commerce, Accepts payments, User accounts, Publishes content, iOS app, Android app and Progressive web app. They determine which governance artefacts are treated as required or recommended for this Site, and therefore how a missing artefact counts towards the Site score:
| Artefact | Relevance |
|---|---|
| robots.txt, Sitemaps, security.txt | Always required |
| Cookies & Consent, llms.txt, ai.txt | Recommended once any capability is set; required until then |
| humans.txt | Always recommended |
| ads.txt | Not applicable unless Advertising is set, then required |
| Cookies & Consent | Required when E-commerce, Accepts payments or User accounts is set |
| security.txt | Required when Accepts payments or User accounts is set |
AI content preference records whether you are Restrictive, Permissive or have No preference about AI use of the Site's content. It is context for guidance only; it does not change ai.txt, robots.txt, crawler access or any model's behaviour.
Deployment
Deployment credentials are used for one purpose: pushing a generated sitemap from the Sitemap Workbench to your server. They are never used for the six fixed governance files. Separately offered CMS managed actions have their own permissions and supported scope; see Managed changes.
- Protocol — SFTP, FTP or FTPS (explicit TLS). FTPS cannot be saved yet; choose SFTP where possible.
- Host, Port, Username, Password and Remote path. The password is masked and is never sent back to the browser once saved.
- SFTP host-key fingerprint — required for SFTP. Flowpane connects only if the server presents this exact key.
Click Test connection to check the credentials. The test checks that the server key matches the fingerprint you entered. A wrong fingerprint fails the test. Confirm the correct fingerprint with your hosting provider before trying again.
Plain FTP sends credentials unencrypted and shows a warning. Saved deployment passwords are protected and are not returned in the settings display. Deployment itself is available to Publishers and Admins. See Exporting sitemaps.
Monitoring
Review the recurring check interval, monitoring state and latest result. On-demand checks are also available. Deep Scan crawls are started separately. See Check scheduling.
Integrations
- Google Search Console — connect, refresh and reconnect. See Google Search Console.
- CMS Connector — a section for connecting supported CMS integrations. CMS and site-platform connections are supported in reviewed environments for the platforms listed in the Extensions Hub; access and management depend on the Site entitlement and current capabilities. See Extensions and integrations.
Tags
Free-text labels for organising Sites, such as "priority" or "client-acme". Type a tag and press Enter or + to add it, and × to remove it. Up to 10 tags of up to 48 characters each. The first four appear in the Site header.
Team
A read-only list of the Workspace's members and their roles, with a link to the Workspace Team page. Workspace membership grants access to its Sites according to role. Use separate Workspaces when different groups need access to different Sites.
Reporting
Review report options, then use the Site Reports page to generate a PDF or explicitly send it to eligible recipients. Scheduled report email remains unavailable. See Report recipients.
Danger zone
Remove site removes the Site and its history from your Workspace. Type the Site's exact name to confirm. There is no undo. See Removing and restoring.