scriptygoddess

1 | ed parton

December 3rd, 2009 at 8:37 pm

This may seem silly, but can you explain the difference?

I thought all websites were redirected from one to the other… i.e. if you type http://www.edparton.com/blog it goes straight to the wordpress blog installation, but if you type http://edparton.com/blog it automatically redirects to the www addy.

How would this be different in the "search" and/or setup wp-config.php ??

2 | Jennifer

December 3rd, 2009 at 10:45 pm

The problem I was describing is a bug in WordPress. In general settings page – if you have the wordpress url WITH the WWW and blog install WITHOUT the WWW – it apparently breaks something. (It shouldn't, but it does)

If you have this particular setup – and you go to the "edit posts" view – that lists all the posts in your blog, and you try to search for a post from that screen – it doesn't work – and instead redirects you to the HOMEPAGE FRONTEND of your site instead of returning a search resulsts / list of posts.

Basically – this was discovered because I had a client that was complaining that she couldn't search for posts in her blog. She said every time she would try to search for a post – she would just get redirected to the (frontend) home page. After a lot of testing, I finally happened to notice the issue with the general settings.