I&#39;m not seeing a great deal of difference in their functionality from the codex pages.<br><br>The major differences I am seeing in core are:<br><ul><li>site_url() returns get_option ( &#39;siteurl&#39; ) vs. home_url returns get_option( &#39;home&#39; )</li>
<li>site_url() does additonal $scheme checks<br></li></ul>There also appear to be several other &quot;_url&quot; type functions added with 3.0.0.<br><br>Source: <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.0.1/wp-includes/link-template.php">http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.0.1/wp-includes/link-template.php</a><br>
<br><br>Cais.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Simon Prosser <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:pross@pross.org.uk" target="_blank">pross@pross.org.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br></div><div class="im">
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<div>On Friday 27 August 2010 19:06:38 Chip Bennett wrote:<br>
&gt; Something we have thus far overlooked, the following three template tags<br>
&gt; were added in 3.0:<br>
</div>&gt; home_url()&lt;<a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/home_url" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/home_url</a>&gt;,<br>
&gt; site_url() &lt;<a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/site_url" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/site_url</a>&gt;,<br>
<div>&gt; admin_url().<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; (Actually, site_url() was added in 2.6.)<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Should these be incorporated into the Guidelines, as replacements for their<br>
&gt; get_bloginfo() equivalents? And if so, how: required, or recommended?<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; See Justin Tadlock&#39;s<br>
</div>&gt; comment&lt;<a href="http://www.wptavern.com/forum/themes-templates/1911-theme-repositor" target="_blank">http://www.wptavern.com/forum/themes-templates/1911-theme-repositor</a><br>
&gt; y-reviews-3.html#post18711&gt;at WP Tavern for reference.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Thoughts?<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Chip<br>
99.99% of themes still use bloginfo() so i think a recommendation only at this<br>
point..</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Sounds good.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, I&#39;m having a brain-fart moment (I&#39;ll blame it on having just donated blood): when would home_url and site_url be different? Does it have to do with handling of static front pages, or something?</div>

<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Chip </div></font></div>
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