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Relative URL

by Sparanoid

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Description

Relative URL applies the wp_make_link_relative function to links (posts, categories, pages, etc.) to convert them to relative URLs. Useful for developers when debugging local WordPress instance on a mobile device (iPad, iPhone, etc.).

Notice: This plugin SHOULD be used for local development only. I haven’t tested on a production environment; it may work with some issues, like unwanted URLs in RSS feed or sharing URLs are replaced with relative URLs, etc.

More information please visit my site.

For example:

http://localhost:8080/wp/

Will be converted to:

/wp/

And..

http://localhost:8080/wp/2012/09/01/hello-world/

Will be converted to:

/wp/2012/09/01/hello-world/

And..

http://localhost:8080/wp/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/style.css

Will be converted to:

/wp/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/style.css

Then after activating this plugin, you can simply access your local instance using http://10.0.1.5:8888/wp/ on your iPad or other mobile devices without having styles and navigation issue.

WordPress (Also works on multisite enabled instance):

  1. Upload the extracted files to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or just install this plugin from your WordPress backend.
  2. In ‘Plugins’ page, choose ‘Activate’
What if I deactivate this plugin?

The URLs will be changed back to absolute URLs again, there’s no database writes with this plugin.

Why this plugin is not recommend for production environment?

URLs in RSS feed are also replaced to relative URLs with this plugin, this could causes some issues for RSS readers that they will be confused for URLs without host. Shared URLs (ie Jetpack Sharing module) are also replaced to related URLs, Twitter, Facebook or other social sites won’t treat them as valid URLs.

Does not work with WordPress 5.9.1

By ams047 on March 7, 2022

Unfortunately you cannot create posts or pages when version 0.1.8 of this plugin is active with WordPress 5.9.1

Completely useless

By tsf999 on December 23, 2021

Not doing anything with WP 5.8. And sadly, this is the 3rd and the last available plugin I tried with no luck.

Very good extension 🙂

By instinctcreatif on July 18, 2019

This makes life easier for local development. I use it with ngrok to show my projects to my clients 🙂 That works well! Do not forget to deactivate it when you put your website on the final server online 🙂

Great w/ WP 5.0

By Mike Garde (bldware) on December 11, 2018

Using WP 5.0 and Divi Theme, this works great, allowing me to deliver site via AWS CloudFront

Great plugin, It make easy to relative url.

By dipraj2008 on September 6, 2017

Relative url

Perfect for ngrok!

By renattto on June 20, 2017

Using to test a local wordpress site with ngrok and worked without any issues. Thanks!

Breaks Jetpack

By yeb215 on May 24, 2017

The relative URL plugin will break Jetpack. 
{
error: "jetpack_verification_failed",
message: "The response from the Jetpack site could not be verified."
}

Хрень

By staf4 on February 8, 2017

Ломает визуальный редактор админки

sad but just doesn't work, and looks like there's no support 🙁

By pputnik on December 5, 2016

There's no answer to users' requests for the last 6 months so I assume it's abandoned... 🙁

Great plugin, but...

By erzulia on November 27, 2016

It works on production site, but this plugin make relative also links in the feed. Please leave absolute urls in the feed!

0.1.8

  • Compatibility check for 5.8, nothing new, just bump version to tell everyone this plugin still works.

0.1.7

  • Compatibility check for 5.0, nothing new, just bump version to tell everyone this plugin still works.

0.1.6

  • Fix ob_end_flush errors

0.1.5

  • Use buffer method again, it’s better with less issues since it mainly works for development environment.

0.1.4

  • Compatibility check for 4.6 and 4.7, nothing new, just bump version to tell everyone this plugin still works.

0.1.3

  • Compatibility check for 4.5, nothing new, just bump version to tell everyone this plugin still works.

0.1.2

  • Fix: reverted back to original method, sorry for the inconvenience.

0.1.1

  • Fix: missing URL for inline sccripts

0.1.0

  • Completely rewrite it from the ground up, now EVERY links, include the ones in your dashboard will be replaced with Relative URLs!

0.0.13

  • Compatibility check for 4.4, nothing new, just bump version to tell everyone this plugin still works.

0.0.12

  • Fix PHP error with latest WordPress 4.3

0.0.11

  • External resources no longer processed.
  • Compatibility check for 4.2.2

0.0.10

  • Compatibility check for 4.1 and 4.1 alpha, nothing new, just bump version to tell everyone this plugin still works.

0.0.9

  • Update readme

0.0.8

  • Compatibility check for 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9 alpha, nothing new, just bump version to tell everyone this plugin still works.

0.0.7

  • Compatibility check for 3.6, nothing new, just bump version to tell everyone this plugin still works.

0.0.6

  • Update donate link, If you like this plugin, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.

0.0.5

  • Update plugin description and page design on sparanoid.com, check it out: http://sparanoid.com/work/relative-url/ props @lianghai

0.0.4

  • Update description, props @lianghai

0.0.3

  • Compatibility check for 3.5, nothing new, just bump version to tell everyone this plugin still works.

0.0.2

  • Moving plugin development repo from WordPress.org to GitHub. You can find the new repo at https://github.com/sparanoid/relative-url

0.0.1

  • First release
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