Title: plugin_dir_url() breaks with symlinks
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# plugin_dir_url() breaks with symlinks

 *  [theMikeD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themiked/)
 * (@themiked)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin_dir_url-breaks-with-symlinks/)
 * The docs suggest that getting the plugin url is done using
 * plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ );
 * But this doesn’t work when the plugin folder is a symlink, because “__FILE__ 
   is the full path and filename of the file with symlinks resolved” ([http://php.net/manual/en/language.constants.predefined.php](http://php.net/manual/en/language.constants.predefined.php))
 * Anyone know of a way around this?

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 * Last reply from: [theMikeD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themiked/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin_dir_url-breaks-with-symlinks/)
 * Status: not resolved

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