[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #48165: Proposal about changing URL on WP admin General Settings

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#48165: Proposal about changing URL on WP admin General Settings
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 Reporter:  felipeloureirosantos               |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement                        |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                             |  Milestone:  Awaiting
                                               |  Review
Component:  General                            |    Version:
 Severity:  normal                             |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  ui, accessibility, administration  |
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 There are some support topics on WordPress forums around the world that
 highlight the same problem, and I hope that this could help them.

 Some users have not a lot of knowledge about how WordPress works, then
 they just change the URL on WP admin General Settings page.

 - **What are they trying to do?**

 They want change the site URL, add `https`, or just put `www` on their
 URL.

 - **Which are the problems?**

 Besides the technical WordPress side (which might break the site), there
 is also the SEO problems which maybe we could describe as well.

 - **What are you proposing?**

 Maybe one of those options:

 1. Take out the option to users edit it on `wp-admin/options-general.php`,
 so they just would be able to do it on the hidden `wp-admin/options.php`.
 Maybe we could still show it there, but do not allow the change.

 2. In a less effective way, we could also just put a warning there. It
 would not be perfect, but certainly would help most users.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/48165>
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