Setting the WordPress and Blog URLs

Why do you need the slash?

I use a plugin named alt-openid. It sets a variable named SetTrustRoot to get_bloginfo(‘url’). If works fine, but the URL at the server gets written https://domain.com and not https://domain.com/.

Being the purist I am, I don’t like it. I advocate the trailing slash, specially when referring to a directory.

I have tricked the plugin to do:

$mysiteurl = get_bloginfo(‘url’).’/’;
$openid->SetTrustRoot($mysiteurl);
//$openid->SetTrustRoot(get_bloginfo(‘url’));

And now does what I want, but wondered why WP is stripping the ‘/’ when purposely set.

aha… so OCD, then.

people don’t type domain.com/ because the / is superfluous, you only think it looks better because of the protocol prefix.

ultimately, what you’re chasing isn’t the convention, the convention doesn’t include a trailing slash to offset the aesthetics of the https:// prefix.

I understand your desire to keep what’s input, but templates are built based on functions which pull that value. If your site has a trailing slash and mine does not – template’s that use the site address variable would either have too many slashes or not enough.

Ivovic, there are people pro and con the trailing slash. My approach, if it is root (/) or a directory, it should end on /. If it is a file, of course not. Although I would rather use https://domain.com/about/ (with an index under that directory) than https://domain.com/about.ext

so would I… not sure what your point is really, I’ve explained why the trailing slash should be either dropped or added, for uniformity so that theme authors can rely on the output of bloginfo() and related functions.

the rest is all a matter of personal preference… but someone needed to draw the line, and unfortunately you fell on the other side of it.

Having said that, my blog shows a trailing slash in the address bar on the index page, despite there being none in the options.