Comments on: WordPress Relative Links Inside a Post with Shortcode API

By: Roy Ho

Roy Ho — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:18:47 +0000

@Gotequity – unfortunately I am not sure what you mean. I’ve never had any issues with this shortcode.

By: Gotequity

Gotequity — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:27:58 +0000

I’ve implemented your solution successfully, but have noticed on several pages that my siteurl is output as text above the images. Do you know of a solution to prevent this from happening? I’m developing a client site in WP3.3 using a static url, and really want to get this working so I can avoid doing SQL rewrites once the domain is fully transferred. Thanks in advance.

By: Roy Ho

Roy Ho — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:17:24 +0000

Yes you can change it to your liking.

By: Gerard

Gerard — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:05:38 +0000

Thnx for this “trick”.
Seems also to work with version 3.2.1
Just a quick question (newbie here, sorry)
Can I “rename” myPostsLink to myWhateverLink without any harm or does it have to be myPostsLink ?

By: Roy Ho

Roy Ho — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:43:47 +0000

No that would not work, try it and you’ll know.

By: Passerby

Passerby — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:31:14 +0000

If you’re going to manually curate your links, why not just make them true relative urls?

When using the ‘insert media’ button, it automatically pastes the absolute url – like “http://dev-domain.com/…/image1.jpg”. Your proposal is to then switch to the HTML mode and replace the “http://dev-domain.com” with a shortcode.

But if you’re already there, just remove the domain, leaving the initial “/”. This link will then work regardless of what domain you move/copy/export the content.

Am I missing something?

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:44:28 +0000

Hi Roy,

I just wanted to say THANK YOU for your tutorial. I’m not really a WP programmer (more of a web designer) and your tutorial wasn’t exactly what I was looking for per se but after looking at how you structured your shortcode example, I was able to use that and create some shortcodes for my theme options page which is awesome!

I didn’t even know you could have a href=”[shortcode]” type of thing to represent a URL but I tried it based on your tutorial and it worked so many many thanks for providing your tutorial!

Just wanted to say thanks

Cheers mate

Scott

By: Roy Ho

Roy Ho — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:56:30 +0000

@Greg – please read my latest comment..if you use it the way you are now, you are limited to that post image…Do what i mention above and you can use this shortcode on any post…

By: Roy Ho

Roy Ho — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:55:20 +0000

@Greg – You didn’t adapt it to how you’re using it…In my example it was for custom image folder…But you’re using the WP image upload folder so you don’t need to put all the stuff you did…in your function just put one slash… ‘/’. like that.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:53:29 +0000

Thanks, I got it! I was missing the leading /.
Appreciate the tip!