The difference in your case is in filters being applied to output of these functions. While bloginfo applies one of these filters: if ( ‘display’ == $filter ) { if ( $url ) $output = apply_filters(‘bloginfo_url’, $output, $show); else $output = apply_filters(‘bloginfo’, $output, $show); } Function home_url applies this filter: return apply_filters( ‘home_url’, $url, $path, … Read more
You don’t want a post to be the front page, you want a custom post type entry to be the front page. Now that we have the terminology right, yes it’s possible. A client once asked me to do the exact same thing. They had a custom post type they needed displayed on the front … Read more
You can get the value of front in the global $wp_rewrite: global $wp_rewrite; echo $wp_rewrite->front; // or echo home_url( $wp_rewrite->front ); Though that is probably of limited use, as the front base isn’t necessarily an existing page, and may 404 in many cases. If you’re using that value to prepend to other URLs, you’re likely … Read more
There are plugins to set the site to SSL. Why not use one of them? And you do have an SSL certificate installed and active?
You are asking two questions at once: What’s the difference between home_url() and site_url()? How do I get WordPress to return the URL root without the subdirectory where it’s installed? Here are the answers, and I confirmed with Andrew Nacin, a core developer of WordPress, as well as ran some server tests to confirm what … Read more