hey guys, finally had the balls to change the site url on the wordpress backend to contain www. ( did it on a old site and it messed it up ) and that worked!! Strange tho seems all my social media likes and shares have gone from the site, everything is at zero... not sure why maybe google needs to index all the pages again?

I do have more links and more page authority with www. than without, so im hoping its a good move.

so i create a .htaccess file, get all the right code for the redirects. upload that .htaccess file to the index.php file? I'll phone my hosting tomorrow see if they can sort it, but thanks everyone who has responded helped a lot.

tried going into filezilla, cannot find a .htaccess file. I will phone up my hosting.

thanks

have changed it to include www. but it still redirects to onestopmuscle.co.uk ( without the www ) :@. this is soo annoying and I know it is probably such a simple fix.

do i change the site address url to include www. also? or just the wordpress url part? thanks for the help!

settings > general settings

wordpress url: http://onestopmuscle.co.uk

site address url: http://onestopmuscle.co.uk

So if i change both to have www. it wont cause any problems with the site content on there already? I'm sure I did this before and i couldn't even log into the site! ( old site ).

basically I have realised i have more page authority and links going to www.onestopmuscle.co.uk instead of onestopmuscle.co.uk. I use wordpress and have no clue how to make sure onestopmuscle.co.uk redirects to www. version.

anyone have any ideas? I don't want to mess about with files or i'll most likely make the blog into a disaster.

settings > general settings

wordpress url: http://onestopmuscle.co.uk

site address url: http://onestopmuscle.co.uk

So if i change both to have www. it wont cause any problems with the site content on there already? I'm sure I did this before and i couldn't even log into the site! ( old site ).