Thank you for your message, and sorry for the delay in replying.
To be honest, it sounds like a WordPress configuration issue – not too sure where to suggest looking…
What happens if you turn off GDE (i.e. deactivate the plugin), and then e.g. try uploading a PDF or DOC? Does it insert the URL to the file in full, or do you see the same issue again?
If it’s the same problem then I guess we conclude it’s a WordPress config issue… if not, then maybe there is something in GDE that could be changed. I can’t promise a fix, but it would be good to know what needs to be targeted anyway.
If anyone else has seen this issue, please jump in.
Regards,
Dan
Just wanted to post that I have not resolved this. I run 50 WordPress web sites and I use GDE on half of them.
Of those 25 sites, GDE works correctly on maybe 22 of them, beginning each embedded tag with ‘http://www.domain.com’. On the other 3 sites, GDE omits the URL and begins the tag with ‘/wp-content….’.
I can’t find the setting controlling this and as you said it seems to be outside of GDE.
I think I’ve tracked this down to being an issue not with your plugin, but with remnants left behind after uninstalling a plugin called Root Relative URLs.
If anyone has any idea what gets left behind from this plugin I’d love to know.
I found my solution. In the wp-config.php file the plug-in Root Relative URLs left behind
define(‘WP_CONTENT_URL’, ‘/wp-content’);
Changing that line to
define(‘WP_CONTENT_URL’, ‘http://’ . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . ‘/wp-content’);
has fixed the problem.
