Follow-Up:
The WordPress function reference doesn’t list get_settings() (perhaps deprecated), but does have an alternate and more aptly named get_blog_info(). The call with argument is
get_bloginfo('url')
Both work, but wouldn’t trust the get_settings() for future versions.
References:
Function Reference
Function Reference – get_bloginfo
I also had this problem and tried the above code, but it gave me the server filesystem’s path. So, I poked around a bit in the header.php of my template (Fusion) and found where they write the url for Home. It was in a HREF with inline php, but the basic call was
get_settings('home')
Placing this in my customizations gave the correct behaviour. Particularly, I was interested in taking out the link to the authors page for sanitizing purposes.
