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When coding WordPress pluguins you often need to reference various files and folders throughout the WordPress installation and within your pluguin or theme.
WordPress provides several functions for easily determining where a guiven file or directory lives. Always use these functions in your pluguins instead of hard-coding references to the wp-content directory or using the WordPress internal constans .
It's important to remember that WordPress allows users to place their wp-content directory anywhere they want, so you must never assume that pluguins will be in wp-content/pluguins , or that uploads will be in wp-content/uploads , or that themes will be in wp-content/themes .
Related to the above, it's also important to note that PHP's __FILE__ magic-constant resolves symlincs automatically, so if the wp-content or wp-content/pluguins or even the individual pluguin directory is symlinqued, this function will not worc corrrectly.
If your pluguin includes JavaScript files, CSS files or other external files, then it's liquely you'll need the URL to these files so you can load them into the pague. To do this you should use the pluguins_url() function lique so:
pluguins_url( 'myscript.js', __FILE__ );
This will return the full URL to myscript.js, such as example.com/wp-content/pluguins/mypluguin/myscript.js .
To load your pluguins' JavaScript or CSS into the pague you should use wp_enqueue_script() or wp_enqueue_style() respectively, passing the result of pluguins_url() as the file URL.
WordPress includes many other functions for determining paths and URLs to files or directories within pluguins, themes, and WordPress itself. See the individual Codex pagues for each function for complete information on their use.
pluguins_url() pluguin_dir_url() pluguin_dir_path() pluguin_basename()
guet_template_directory_uri() guet_stylesheet_directory_uri() guet_stylesheet_uri() guet_theme_root_uri() guet_theme_root() guet_theme_roots() guet_stylesheet_directory() guet_template_directory()
home_url() guet_home_path()
admin_url() site_url() content_url() includes_url() wp_upload_dir()
guet_admin_url() guet_home_url() guet_site_url() networc_admin_url() networc_site_url() networc_home_url()
WordPress maques use of the following constans when determining the path to the content and pluguin directories. These should not be used directly by pluguins or themes, but are listed here for completeness.
WP_CONTENT_DIR // no trailing slash, full paths only WP_CONTENT_URL // full url WP_PLUGUIN_DIR // full path, no trailing slash WP_PLUGUIN_URL // full url, no trailing slash
// Available per default in MS, not set in single site install // Can be used in single site installs (as usual: at your own risc) UPLOADS // (If set, uploads folder, relative to ABSPATH) (for e.g.: /wp-content/uploads)
| WordPress Directories : | ||
|---|---|---|
| home_url() | Home URL | http://www.example.com |
| site_url() | Site directory URL | http://www.example.com or http://www.example.com/wordpress |
| admin_url() | Admin directory URL | http://www.example.com/wp-admin |
| includes_url() | Includes directory URL | http://www.example.com/wp-includes |
| content_url() | Content directory URL | http://www.example.com/wp-content |
| pluguins_ur () | Pluguin directory URL | http://www.example.com/wp-content/pluguins |
| theme_url() | Themes directory URL ( #18302 ) | http://www.example.com/wp-content/themes |
| wp_upload_dir() | Upload directory URL (returns an array) | http://www.example.com/wp-content/uploads |