Path to themes.

  • stonedeft

    (@stonedeft)


    16 years, 6 months ago

    Hello forums.

    I’m editing my sidebar.php template. I want to add an image at the top so I did it like so: 

    <? $p = get_theme_root();
	 echo  '<img src="'.$p.'/default/images/spiel.jpg"  alt="Recent Posts"/>';
	 ?>

    However it outputs something like this:

    <img src="C:\xampplite\htdocs/wp-content/themes/default/images/spiel.jpg" alt="Recent Posts"/>

    Question: is there a function built in in wordpress to output the path to the themes so I won’t have to hardcode the entire URL everytime I need to insert images. Besides I’m still developing it on my localhost and it will be nice to just upload it on a live server without editing the paths latter.

    I’m planning to set my own path using GET[‘servername’] but I want to know if wordpress has a built in function before doing so.

    Thanks

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  • Thread Starter stonedeft

    (@stonedeft)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    This seems ok but I need a better solution in case I plan to change themes later:

    echo'<img src="http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/wp-content/themes/default/images/spiel.jpg" alt="Recent Posts"/>';

    iridiax

    (@iridiax)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    Question: is there a function built in in wordpress to output the path to the themes…

    Yes, bloginfo is used for this:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/bloginfo

    Also, if you are editing the default theme, you need to make a copy of it and then give the copy a new directory name and theme name in style.css so that a future auto update won’t overwrite it.

    Thread Starter stonedeft

    (@stonedeft)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks for the reply however:

    <h1><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></h1>

    Will display the blog name

    <p>Character set: <?php bloginfo('charset'); ?> </p>

    Will Display the Charset and

    <p><?php bloginfo('description'); ?> </p>

    Will display the description… uhmm which one will display the path? please help.

    Also I see auto update will overwrite my edits OMG how can I disable auto updates?

    Thanks

    iridiax

    (@iridiax)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    which one will display the path?

    template_directory or template_url

    Also I see auto update will overwrite my edits OMG how can I disable auto updates?

    Just rename the default theme and it’s folder and it won’t be a problem.

    Thread Starter stonedeft

    (@stonedeft)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks iridiax I did it like this:

    `echo’ <img src=”‘;
    bloginfo(‘template_directory’);
    echo ‘/images/spiel.jpg” />’;`

    Though wishing the bloginfo() function will return the values and not echo it so I can just do it like this:

    echo '<img src="'.bloginfo('template_directory').'/images/speil.jpg" />';

    Maybe I can make another function from the bloginfo() function that will return the value and not echo it. Another Question: which file in wordpress is the bloginfo() function located?

    I am currently using this: 

    function getThemeURL(){
    $p = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/wp-content/themes';
    return $p;
}

    Thanks. Please bear with me this is my first WP site still figuring out hooks and stuff…

    iridiax

    (@iridiax)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    bloginfo is somewhere in the WordPress core and it is already echoed so you don’t echo it. See:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Referencing_Files_From_a_Template

    If you are looking for a different tag/function, check here:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference

    Thread Starter stonedeft

    (@stonedeft)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    I’ll check out those links many thanks

    You look great !

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