custom links – remove the http?

  • TimTee

    (@timtee)


    14 years ago

    I’m using a custom menu set to primary, in order to link to other non wordpress pages on the same server. It works, but I am forced to use a full url with http, I erase it, and it inserts it again (so the link doesn’t work of course).

    any way to prevent it from doing this?
    thanks!

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    Not that I know, Generally speaking, WordPress simply doesn’t generate relative urls – only full ones. What’s the problem with using full urls?

    Thread Starter TimTee

    (@timtee)

    thanks, though these aren’t generated, ones I enter as a custom link. It adds it.

    It isn’t that it doesn’t work, but generally when I build a site with menu items to pages within the site, I don’t use fully qualified urls for all menu items so it seemed odd this isn’t an option.
    thanks!

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    When using WordPress, you really have to get used to using full urls. Because it uses generated content dynamically from a database via a templating system, using relative urls will produce very unpredictable results.

    I’m working locally and it would be great to have relative links for some of my “custom links”.

    Currently I have to manually change all my custom links to ensure they don’t point to the local drive when I go live.

    ie. change the link from locall888/mylocalsite/page to https://www.mysite.com/page.

    It’s a small pain but a pain that could easily be avoided with a relative link. : (

    It’s possible to provide a relative url on custom menus
    Enter your url as “/relative_url” and it’ll go to https://www.domain.com/relative_url

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