adding in the www.

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  allyartonline · Member · Oct 13, 2009 at 12:04 pm

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  Hey guys – sorry – did search the forums, but I can’t find this anywhere. I have used wordpress.org on a different site and managed to change the url to display the “www.” bit after the “http://” bit. But how do I do that here?

  I’ve paid for the wordpress.com blog to redirect to a different domain name, but the “www.” bit is cut off. The setting I used to get it to work before doesn’t seem to exist in the wordpress.com dashboard.

  so help a poor blind guy put here – where do I find it?

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Oct 13, 2009 at 12:11 pm

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  You won’t find it. WordPress.com will strip it out.
  The first half of this discussion will be interesting to you:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/httpwwwsharonharvey2wordpresscom?replies=26

  and for good measure:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/httpblognamewordpresscom-or-wwwblognamewordpresscom?replies=8

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  allyartonline · Member · Oct 13, 2009 at 12:32 pm

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  thanks – i sort of understand wordpress reasoning – even if i don’t entirely agree with it. Thankfully this particular site need much in the way of traffic and whatnot; and so the brief delay while the htaccess strips www. from the url won’t be much of a problem.

  Still – it would be nice to have that option on a domain you’re forwarding to.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Oct 13, 2009 at 12:37 pm

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  Well it wasn’t the answer you wanted, but at least you won’t have to keep searching for something that isn’t there. 404

  Happy blogging!