Adding WWW to Your WordPress Blog

After that, scroll down to the “WordPress Address (URL)” and “Site Address (URL)” fields. Add “www” in front of the domain name (between the “http://” and the “domain” name). Then scroll down to the bottom and click save.

Your settings will be saved, and you will need to log in again to continue working with your WordPress.

For an Established Site

If your site is already established with tons of content, it’s highly advisable to stick with the current name format and to not change your domain by adding or removing the “www.” Otherwise you will have to redirect all of your existing content to the new pattern. For example, if one of your articles’ old URL is “http://yoursite.com/article,” you would need to redirect it to “http://www.yoursite.com/article.”

That’s just one. What if you have hundreds of them?an

The second reason to stick with the current name configuration is if you have an established site that is SEO. It’s true that the “www” doesn’t really influence SEO, but that statement is valid within the sense of deciding whether or not to use “www” in the early days. If you already have tons of content, the search engines have already indexed your content using the existing URL, and changing them will reset all of your hard work to zero.

If you really, really need to add the “www” because the safety of the world depends on it, the easiest way to go about it is to use the help of plugins such as Better Search Replace or Easy 301 Redirect to mass migrate the old URLs to the new ones.

But that, my friend, is another story for another time.