Second, make sure you are using permalinks and the rewrite code from WordPress is in your .htaccess file.

Then, you just set your WordPress address URL the way you want it in the Dashboard general options page. If you include the www, then your URLs will be rewritten to include it. If you leave it off, then your URLs will be rewritten that way. Trailing slashes will automatically be added either way.

WordPress will also automatically redirect incomplete and moved URLs. It’s pretty nice.

If it’s still not working, I would try disabling plugins and see if one of them is causing the problem.

One other thing that may help you with upgrades to 2.3 is a plugin I wrote to look for incompatibilities in other plugins and themes. It’s called Upgrade Preflight Check and you can find it at: http://smithsrus.com/downloads.....ght-check/

I do agree that it is a pain in the ass to update all the time and having to fix things that are not compatible, out-of-the-box.

My opinion 2.3 stands for 2 steps forward and 3 steps back. I like the update notification as well…BUT…all of the other functionality that I am using seems to get all screwed up with the upgrade. (I am an admitted heavy plugin user.)

I upgraded one blog and just installed a new blog for a friend, but have decided to NOT upgrade the rest until the kinks get worked out.

If you don’t use ANY or MANY plugins, then you are likely to be OK, I guess…. I too have NO clue what they tried to do with canonical urls…NOTHING changed in my .htaccess as well. I will still use a plugin and good old fashioned hand editing for that.

BTW-Memo to Word Press folks–I LOVE your product. Please don’t upgrade so often. It’s a pain in the @#$ when stuff doesn’t work and we have to mod it ourselves. (Happy to do it if we have to). Less is more IMO guys. Save all the changes up and give us an upgrade where we can all take some down time and have our “fun” once a year or so (grin).

OK–bitchin aside. I still am a big fan of the platform.