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1. synchole
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,
   I'm hoping someone can help.
   I've been trying to update our site to reflect better SEO standards and so this morning I changed our permalink structure from numeric to /%category%/%postname%/. I'm using custom fields to pull out an ad banner on each custom page and now they've disappeared. After searching around on the forum I understand that my problem is that I'm using a relative path to my images, however I've tried using php template tags to grab the images and I still can't get it to work. I've used both:
   <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory') ?>/style/images/warranty_banner.jpg"/>
   and
   <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/style/images/warranty_banner.jpg"/>
   With no luck.
   The website is: centurionsystems.com, when you click onto any of the pages there should be a banner like on the home page but they don't appear.
   Any help is greatly appreciated.

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I changed our permalink structure from numeric to /%category%/%postname%/.

   Bad choice. See http://ottopress.com/2010/category-in-permalinks-considered-harmful/

3. synchole
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Just in case anyone else has this problem, I eventually did find a solution, however it only works if your images are wrapped in an anchor tag, which luckily mine were.

   add
   <base href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>" />
   to your head tag.

4. bettylocal
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I believe I have a similar issue: the most obvious example can be seen here --> http://bettylocal.com/betty-local-seattle/ <-- notice there are two broken images. Everything else in the site appears just fine. My host is suggesting that I need to disable permalinks. (Not sure how to do that or whether it's even warranted.)

   Will give the head tag trick a go...crossing fingers it might help me.

   Any other ideas out there???

5. viviangee
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   @Synchole - just wanted to say you are a GODSEND! I could kiss you.

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