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The Hawk
The Hawk

Reputation: 1568

Wordpress images in a subdirectory

I have a WP install in a subdirectory, but in my page templates and php files, I refer to the document root, so it reverts back to the main directory to load image files. Is there a quick way like with an .htaccess file to have the images redirected to the subdirectory first? 

MainURL: mysite.com/wordpress1
CPURL: mysite.com/wordpress1

<img src="/images/image1.jpg">

I want the image to load from: "/wordpress1/images/image1.jpg"

I don't want to manually hardcode the subdirectory just in case I don't need to use it in the future. I want it to be universal...

Upvotes: 1

Views: 670

Answers (2)

Tim Malone
Tim Malone

Reputation: 3534

Using .htaccess is not the best way to do this - there are a range of functions that Wordpress defines in order for you to get the correct directories. It's designed for circumstances just as this: where the folder Wordpress ends up in could be very different!

This function will always return the site URL: home_url(), eg: http://example.com/wordpress

So you can reference your images like this:

<img src="<?php echo home_url(); ?>/images/image1.jpg">

There's also a site_url() function, the differences are explained in this question/answer.

Also useful if you're developing a theme, this function will always return the theme directory root: get_template_directory_uri(), eg: http://example.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/mytheme

There's a full list of functions that return various URLs and server paths for your Wordpress install at this Codex page.

Upvotes: 1

Luigi Pressello
Luigi Pressello

Reputation: 935

Probably if you're using absolute paths in your templates ther's something wrong in how you write your templates, BTW here is a simple rewrite rule

RedirectMatch 301 ^/wp-content/uploads/(.*)$ /subdir/wp-content/uploads/$1

Replace subdir with your sub directory, this example is made on the uploads subdirectory of wp-content, but you can also apply to other subdirs.

Upvotes: 0

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