Site breaks due to use of absolute paths?

  • Resolved Dylan277

    (@dylan277)


    12 years, 2 months ago

    Greetings all, I hope someone can give me a bit of help as I’m pretty much lost at this point. My site is paracinema.net.

    I updated my WordPress theme about 6 months ago, I’m not sure where I went wrong or what happened exactly, but every so often the site is almost unresponsive. Very little content loads and almost no images show up. When it first happened I contacted my web host and they said it had to do with too many concurrent connections and the use of absolute paths rather than relative paths. I went in and change all of the paths that I could, from links to images.

    Fast forward to today and they’re telling me that my plugins are using absolute paths and that’s what is continuing to cripple the site. Problem is I have no clue how to access and fix the plugins so they use relative paths.

    For example,

    I’m using:
    https://paracinema.net/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/css/styles.css?ver=3.2.1

    When I need to use:
    /wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/css/styles.css?ver=3.2.1

    I’m hoping someone can share a bit of knowledge and help me fix this issue. I’m afraid to edit pages or posts too much, because that’s when it seems to happen the most.

    Thanks in advance!

    Best,
    Dylan

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  • Problem is I have no clue how to access and fix the plugins so they use relative paths.

    Short answer: you can’t. WordPress generally behaves very unpredictably if you try to stick to relative urls.

    I’d suggest looking for another (better) host.

    Thread Starter Dylan277

    (@dylan277)

    Really, that’s it? There is no fix, and it’s the host’s service that’s the issue?

    Can anyone recommend a host that works better with WordPress?

    Although we cannot endorse them, there are some hosts listed here. Also searching the forums using the keywords “host” or “hosting” may provide you with some suggestions.

    Thread Starter Dylan277

    (@dylan277)

    Thanks for the insight, Esmi!

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