{"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":"2026-08-20T06:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:04:13","slug":"6502325-hostinger-ai-builder-manual-mode-how-to-enable-or-disable-the-www-prefix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6502325-hostinger-ai-builder-manual-mode-how-to-enable-or-disable-the-www-prefix\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostinger AI Builder: How to enable or disable the WWW prefix in manual mode"},"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 class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/tutorials\/what-are-subdomains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\">As no standard or policy requires the use of www, many websites don&rsquo;t use it.<\/p><h2 id=\"h-enable-or-disable-the-www-prefix\">Enable or disable the WWW prefix<\/h2><ol>\n<li class=\"no-margin\">Open the website&rsquo;s <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/6466320-website-builder-seo-settings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general settings<\/a><\/b>.<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16294\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-20_13-02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-20_13-02.png 372w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-20_13-02-129x300.png 129w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"no-margin\">Toggle the <b>Use WWW Prefix<\/b> button depending on whether you want www automatically added to your URLs or not:<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-20_13-02_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1485\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-20_13-02_1.png 1485w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-20_13-02_1-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-20_13-02_1-1024x592.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-20_13-02_1-768x444.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1485px) 100vw, 1485px\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"no-margin\">After making the changes, remember to <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/6435697-website-builder-updating-a-website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">update your website<\/a><\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ol><p>Your website&rsquo;s URLs now reflect your WWW prefix preference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enable or disable the WWW prefix in manual mode for your Hostinger AI Builder website URLs <\/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":[293],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-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-BR","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":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16296,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/16296"}],"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}]}}