Adding "www" in front of web address or leaving it out?

  • Do you generally add a ‘www’ in front of your domain name or not? What’s the pro’s and con’s of each? I see it can be changed under settings section.

    WordPress Address (URL):
    Site Address (URL):

    Should I do:
    WordPress Address (URL): https://www.address.org
    Site Address (URL): https://www.address.org

    or

    WordPress Address (URL): address.org
    Site Address (URL): address.org

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  • What’s the pro’s and con’s of each?

    Nothing, IMO. It is a question of your personal choice and sometimes it’s out of a general liking for www.

    You can have both – in a manner of speaking. I usually use the bare domain name (https://address.org/) for my sites and then add something like:

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example\.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.org/$1 [R=301,L]

    to the top of the root .htaccess file. That redirects all calls to https://www.example.org to the bare domain name.

    HTH

    Which one you choose makes absolutely no difference at all. Personally, I prefer adding www. because yeah… don′t know why. Because because. Personal preference.

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