the use of “www.”

To my knowledge, you never have to use www when typing a url. It may redirect to https://www.domain.com after you type it in, but you still don’t have to type it. You also don’t have to use it for your WordPress site. Just make sure you use one or the other, not both.

If your DNS is set for using both URLs, you don’t need to type www. And you dont need to type “https://” as well (this part browsers add by themselves). Typing just “mydomain.com” should work.

Anyways I recommend you to choose only one option as default, either with www or without it. This way you guarantee no penalties applied by search engines due to duplicate content. You can use your .htaccess to set which one should be used as default (the other one would redirect to the one you did choose).

Cheers

Thank alll for your comments and input. I appreciate your time.