want to redirct my website from non www to www

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  srtmdev · Member · May 25, 2023 at 8:27 am

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  Hi wordpress team please help me to change my wordpress doamin from non www to www

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  staartmees · Member · May 25, 2023 at 9:20 am

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  This isn’t possible nor necessary according to https://wordpress.com/support/domains/register-domain/#www-version-of-the-domain-name

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  machellie · Staff · May 25, 2023 at 11:11 am

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  Hi there, @srtmdev!

  As mentioned, setting the www version of your domain as the primary site address on your site is not possible at WordPress.com. The www version will redirect to the non-www version.

  WordPress.com has chosen the non-www version of your site as the canonical URL. While www was required in the early days of the internet, it is no longer required or advantageous. Your site address can still be reached at the www version of the domain name, but it will always redirect to the non-www version. This is for SEO reasons; search engines prefer one version of the site address is set as the canonical URL because otherwise, they will see duplicate content.

  Let me know if you have any questions!