Title: Make Paths Relative Author: Sami Ahmed Siddiqui Published: يونيو 16, 2016 Last modified: يوليوز 22, 2025 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/make-paths-relative/assets/banner-772x250-rtl.png?rev=1796226) ![](https://ps.w.org/make-paths-relative/assets/icon.svg?rev=1785376) # Make Paths Relative By [Sami Ahmed Siddiqui](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sasiddiqui/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/make-paths-relative.2.1.0.zip) * [Details](https://ary.wordpress.org/plugins/make-paths-relative/#description) * [Reviews](https://ary.wordpress.org/plugins/make-paths-relative/#reviews) * [Installation](https://ary.wordpress.org/plugins/make-paths-relative/#installation) * [Development](https://ary.wordpress.org/plugins/make-paths-relative/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/make-paths-relative/) ## Description This powerful plugin simplifies website maintenance by automatically converting absolute paths (URLs) for resources like links, scripts, stylesheets, and images to relative paths. This ensures your website functions flawlessly regardless of its location on a server or domain. ### Enhanced Efficiency and Flexibility * **Seamless Relocation:** Move your website with confidence, knowing all paths will adjust accordingly, preventing broken links and preserving a seamless user– experience. * **Centralized Control:** Update paths once in a central location, eliminating the need for tedious, site-wide modifications. * **Potential Performance Boost:** Relative paths can, in some cases, improve website loading times. ### Whitelist Your Domains (Optional) For extra control, you can specify a list of domains that will always be converted to relative paths. This ensures internal links are always optimized while allowing external resources to function properly. ### Embrace a Streamlined Approach This plugin empowers you to focus on creating exceptional content while eliminating the burden of managing absolute paths. Take control, optimize your workflow, and ensure your website’s continued success! ### Filters If you want to make plugin works and all the paths relative without going to check/ visit Settings Page so, just add this line in your theme’s `functions.php`. ``` add_filter( 'make_paths_relative_activate_all', '__return_true' ); ``` **Note**: Make sure to check the settings Page. ### Bug reports Bug reports for **Make Paths Relative** are [welcomed on GitHub](https://github.com/yasglobal/make-paths-relative/issues/). Please note GitHub is not a support forum, and issues that aren’t properly qualified as bugs will be closed. ## Installation This process defines you the steps to follow either you are installing through WordPress or Manually from FTP. ### From within WordPress 1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’ 2. Search for Make Paths Relative 3. Activate Make Paths Relative from your Plugins page. 4. Go to **“after activation”** below. ### Manually 1. Upload the `make-paths-relative` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 2. Activate Make Paths Relative through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 3. Go to **“after activation”** below. ### After activation 1. Go to the plugin settings page and set up the plugin for your site. 2. You’re done! ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3be7f1b19a2fe5bc52a4b1c0e6408ae0f60eba2ef9387b3dd50dda5d2b361017? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Does the trick, many thanks!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/des-the-trick-many-thanks/)󠁿 [tudorilisoi](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tudorilisoi/) يوليوز 31, 2025 it makes local dev to deploy frictionless ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/beffc275bd43438ab0c1cd47f94fc22c1e396e327fa38be41bcc489bb8e19ce2? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Breaks Database Connection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/breaks-database-connection/)󠁿 [KJ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kennjordan/) يوليوز 8, 2022 1 reply I have a clean WordPress install using the Twenty Twenty-Two Version: 1.2 theme. The only plugin installed is yours, ‘Make Paths Relative’. In settings I checked the box for ‘Image Paths’. Then changed the WordPress > Settings > General > Timezone from ‘London’ to ‘Los Angeles’ Then BOOM! the following error appears: One or more database tables are unavailable. The database may need to be repaired. Upon investigation in myPHPAdmin we discovered that the _options table field ‘option_name’ > ‘siteurl’ and ‘home’ were blank where the websites url should be. Once, we manually put in the URL into these fields, went back to the site, and refreshed; it worked again until we changed the timezone back again. We also tested this on different web hosts, servers, and with different themes and were able to reproduce the behaviour. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0d22653648e8ba9d7b5375257568a4e25132403acfe667cb4ee4f06e10636761? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-3801/)󠁿 [tsf999](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tsf999/) دجنبر 23, 2021 1 reply Not working with WP 5.8, broke site completely while links are still absolute. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d78c1574cb1f44ed1490bd3b9c521cc53fa4348d50ae17b5781a5bf924cfc5ee? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Excellente.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellente-25/)󠁿 [Mauricio Lopez Coria](https://profiles.wordpress.org/damonh/) مارس 22, 2021 Lightweight, easy to use, and it works. One of my must-have plugins. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3b0e5154dc73db7600b977a1eecd062678c517ad3df7b53bd241b26fe5135a31? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[simple, straightforward, works perfectly](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-straightforward-works-perfectly/)󠁿 [vor23](https://profiles.wordpress.org/vor23/) يونيو 22, 2020 This is just the perfect plugin: I installed it, easily set it the way I want it, then refreshed my site and immediately saw the results. If only all plugins were this straightforward, quick, and effective! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/05f903aa908e85714f8b1249deb0a53608fc7e0028cb2ada3dafd57ea04af379? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[It caused trouble](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-caused-trouble/)󠁿 [Fabrício](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fabricios/) أكتوبر 31, 2019 I didn’t like the plugin. While enabled, it broke internal site links. Both http and https gave “too many redirects” error. Also, the tools to share on Twitter, Facebook, etc. gave error because the URL appeared relative (without the site domain). Just disable the plugin for both problems to end. I do not recommend. [ Read all 16 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/make-paths-relative/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Make Paths Relative” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Sami Ahmed Siddiqui ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sasiddiqui/) “Make Paths Relative” has been translated into 5 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/make-paths-relative/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Make Paths Relative” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/make-paths-relative) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/make-paths-relative/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/make-paths-relative/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/make-paths-relative/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/make-paths-relative/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 2.1.0 – July 11, 2024 * Bugs: - Fixed an issue where replacements using \n or $n weren’t working correctly. * Feature Additions: - You can now include slashes in hostnames, giving you more flexibility. - For improved security, plugin can no longer be used on the admin dashboard. - We’ve enhanced how relative escaped URLs are handled within the body content. - Add functionality to relative WordPress stylesheet directory URIs. #### 2.0.0 – June 28, 2024 * Security Enhancement: - Implemented a nonce mechanism to safeguard page updates, preventing unauthorized modifications. * Feature Additions: - Define multiple domains to be act as relative. - Enhanced content control by allowing removal of specific domains from the entire HTML body tag. #### Earlier versions * For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the separate changelog. txt file. ## Meta * Version **2.1.0** * Last updated **10 شهور ago** * Active installations **2,000+** * WordPress version ** 2.6 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.8.5** * PHP version ** 5.6 or higher ** * Languages * [English (Australia)](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/make-paths-relative/), [English (Canada)](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/make-paths-relative/), [English (UK)](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/make-paths-relative/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/make-paths-relative/), [Spanish (Argentina)](https://es-ar.wordpress.org/plugins/make-paths-relative/), and [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/make-paths-relative/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/make-paths-relative) * Tags * [migration](https://ary.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/migration/)[relative links](https://ary.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/relative-links/) [seo friendly urls](https://ary.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo-friendly-urls/) * [Advanced View](https://ary.wordpress.org/plugins/make-paths-relative/advanced/) ## Ratings 4.1 out of 5 stars. * [ 11 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/make-paths-relative/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/make-paths-relative/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 1 3-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/make-paths-relative/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/make-paths-relative/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 3 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/make-paths-relative/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/make-paths-relative/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/make-paths-relative/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Sami Ahmed Siddiqui ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sasiddiqui/) ## Support Got something to say? 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