intuitart

Tell me more…

Were you using this prior to WP 5.8?
Which editor are you using, Classic or the new editor?
What are you seeing that suggests it doesn’t work?

Andrew P.

OK, what you are seeing is a result of one of the fundamental assumptions in how the plugin works. Both urls get removed when saving a post. The ~/wordpress url is re-inserted only for files in the uploads folder.

So my next question is, what is your use case for linking to files outside the uploads folder? A custom application? Uploading images or documents manually outside of the media upload process?

A possible workaround is to add a filter in functions.php to always use the ~/wordpress url when generating an absolute url for display. This can be done with the following:

add_filter( 'of_absolute_relative_urls_url', function( $url, $wpurl ) {return $wpurl;}, 10, 2 );

Hope this helps, and I am curious about your use case.

Andrew P.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by intuitart.

To accomplish this you have two things to deal with.

First, I assume those accessing the site from outside have a different URL than the ones accessing the site from inside. You can deal with this by adding two lines to wp-config.php. This tells WP, and this plugin, to use the URL accessing the site as the site and wordpress URLs.

define( 'WP_SITEURL', $_SERVER['REQUEST_SCHEME'] . '://'. $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] );
define( 'WP_HOME', $_SERVER['REQUEST_SCHEME'] . '://'. $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] );

Second, you want existing posts to have relative URLs so they display properly both inside and outside the organization. There are a couple of ways of handling this. If there are only a few posts at the moment, just enable this plugin, edit and re-save each post. This will convert the URLs to relative. The second option is to use the related_sites filter in functions.php so that the plugin treats specific URLs as though they are relative.

add_filter( 'of_absolute_relative_urls_related_sites',
    function( $related_sites ) {
        $related_sites[] = "http://originalsite.org";
        return $related_sites;
    }
);

Replace originalsite.org with your own domain.

Hope this helps,

Andrew P.

Hi Amir,

Yes the plugin works in real time to convert relative to absolute links. It’s hard to answer about other plugins with knowing the specifics. I’ve seen this plugin work well with other plugins and I’ve seen it miss URLs, particularly when they are stored in custom tables or when a plugin author bypasses WP update and retrieve functions to access the database directly. So it depends. My understanding is that WP looks after it’s menu links, saving as relative and displaying as absolute.

The best thing is to test a specific situation. If you find something that doesn’t work, let me know.

Andrew P.

OK I’m not convinced I understand the requirement, especially if your hook into ‘post_link’ resolves it for you.

Can we back up a step, and would you tell me why you want relative links? i.e. what problem, or situation, are you trying to solve?

By the way, a relative link for me is a URL without the scheme and domain. For example, an absolute URL of https://www.mydomain.com/wp-content/2019/12/image.jpg would become /wp-content/2019/12/image.jpg when converted to relative. That’s what would be saved in the database using this plugin.

A special case for WordPress sites where the site itself is in a folder would drop the folder, along with the scheme and domain, when converting to relative. For exampe, an absolute URL of https://www.mydomain.com/blog/wp-content/2019/12/image.jpg would become /wp-content/2019/12/image.jpg when converted to relative, the same as above.

As long as the WordPress and Site URLs are set properly in the Settings, the relative URL would be converted back to it’s original form when displayed. In the first example https://www.mydomain.com would be prefixed to the relative URL, and in the second example https://www.mydomain.com/blog would be prefixed to the relative URL.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by intuitart.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by intuitart.

OK first things first. Make sure the plugin is working before trying to modify the default behaviour. In most cases you shouldn’t need to customize it (i.e. no filters required in functions.php in order for the plugin to work).

If wordpress.com is allowing you to install plugins, it is unlikely they are blocking filters.

To test your own filters, just echo some text to the browser or save some text to a debug file. Dig in to php to learn those things. When you see the text you display or save, you know the filter is firing.