{"id":820,"date":"2022-08-25T13:43:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T13:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2022\/08\/25\/6502325-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-enable-or-disable-the-www-prefix\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T06:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:56:38","slug":"6502325-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-enable-or-disable-the-www-prefix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6502325-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-enable-or-disable-the-www-prefix\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostinger Website Builder: How to Enable or Disable the WWW Prefix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>WWW<\/b> stands for <b>World Wide Web <\/b>and is a well-known prefix for domain names. To be more precise, www is just a <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/tutorials\/what-are-subdomains\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">subdomain<\/a> <\/b>that is commonly used because of the long-standing practice of naming Internet hosts according to the services they provide. <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">As no standard or policy requires the use of www, many websites don&rsquo;t use it. <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">If you use <b>Hostinger Website Builder<\/b>, you can enable or disable the www prefix for your URLs in the website&rsquo;s <b><a href=\"\/support\/6466320-website-builder-seo-settings\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">general settings<\/a><\/b>. Toggle the <b>Use WWW Prefix<\/b> button depending on whether you want www automatically added to your URLs or not:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/08\/165a2473-c28a-4f1c-b753-3a836f80c593.jpg\" alt=\"The general website settings in Hostinger Website Builder\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">After making the changes, remember to <b><a href=\"\/support\/6435697-website-builder-updating-a-website\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">update your website<\/a><\/b>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn more about the www prefix<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seo-website-builder"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6502325-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-enable-or-disable-the-www-prefix\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/6502325-hostinger-creador-de-sitios-web-como-habilitar-o-deshabilitar-el-prefijo-www\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/6502325-hostinger-createur-de-sites-web-comment-activer-ou-desactiver-le-prefixe-www\/","default":0},{"locale":"lt-LT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/lt\/support\/6502325-hostinger-svetainiu-kurimo-irankis-www-priesdelis\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/6502325-hostinger-criador-de-sites-como-habilitar-ou-desabilitar-o-prefixo-www\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}