Title: Make Paths Relative Author: Sami Ahmed Siddiqui Published: June 16, 2016 Last modified: July 22, 2025 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/make-paths-relative/assets/banner-772x250.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://wordpress.org/plugins/make-paths-relative/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/make-paths-relative/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/make-paths-relative/#installation) * [Development](https://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! ## 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 **9 months 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://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/migration/)[relative links](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/relative-links/) [seo friendly urls](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo-friendly-urls/) * [Advanced View](https://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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