Title: won't work.
Last modified: August 30, 2016
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# won't work.
* [adhdcelt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adhdcelt/)
* (@adhdcelt)
* [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wont-work-16/)
* I have a wordpress site installed in a WAMP Server localhost environment on my
machine.
* Right now, my links to images are hard-coded and work fine.
* I went to a wordpress group meeting tonight, and someone there showed me how
to use this php function instead of doing all the hard-coding.
* `; ?>/images/aternus.png)
`
* So, I plugged it in, made the appropriate path changes, tried every path configuration
I could, and it won’t work—no image on the page.
* Somehow, it cannot find the path to my image folder. I’ve tried it several times,
being careful to check every single character in the string, alas, no image on
the page.
* Can someone please tell me what—if anything—I’m doin’ wrong?
* Thanks so much.
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* [kjodle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjodle/)
* (@kjodle)
* [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wont-work-16/#post-6235554)
* Are you working on a theme? If so, what kind of HTML are you getting on your
page?
* Thread Starter [adhdcelt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adhdcelt/)
* (@adhdcelt)
* [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wont-work-16/#post-6235593)
* No, not working on a theme; I’m working on a website. I’m using the wordpress
twentyten theme with a child theme.
* I don’t get html on the page. When I replace the hard code in the string that
needs to be replaced, with the php function in this post, update the page, then
view the page, the image just doesn’t show up. All I see is the alt=”xxx” description.
The page looks fine, the image just doesn’t show up.
* [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
* (@claytonjames)
* [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wont-work-16/#post-6235597)
* > No, not working on a theme; I’m working on a website.
* Where exactly are you using this code? `;?
>/images/aternus.png)
` ?
* Some reference material (contains the example code you used above): [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_stylesheet_directory_uri](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_stylesheet_directory_uri)
* Thread Starter [adhdcelt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adhdcelt/)
* (@adhdcelt)
* [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wont-work-16/#post-6235600)
* I’m using this code in a page in my wordpress site where I want the image to
go just like it reads in the example except for the directory path code that
is specific to my site.
* In other words, the code in the page that points to my image folder looks like
this:
`
`
* The above code works just fine and loads the image, no problem.
* However, this code does not work when I replace the hard-coded directory path
with the php function:
`;?
>/imagefolder1/imagefolder2/imagefolder3/the-image-itself.png)
`
* Same code as the hard code that works, except for the php function. Everything
I look at says this php function code should work. The examples are exactly the
same as what I’m doing except for the specific directory path for my image files.
However, I must be doin’ something wrong, here.
* [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
* (@claytonjames)
* [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wont-work-16/#post-6235604)
* `http://localhost/wordpress/wp-content/imagefolder1/imagefolder2/imagefolder3/
the-image-itself.png`
* That path doesn’t appear to include a stylesheet directory. I think the stylesheet
directory might be interpreted as the path to the active theme directory.
* Your image folders in that path appear to be located one level above, in `/wp-
content/imagefolder/` – rather than – `/wp-content/themes/themename/imagefolder`
* [Function Reference/get stylesheet directory ](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_stylesheet_directory)
* _“Retrieve stylesheet directory Path for the current theme/child theme. “_
* Just a guess, mind you.
* Thread Starter [adhdcelt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adhdcelt/)
* (@adhdcelt)
* [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wont-work-16/#post-6235608)
* Yes, my images are in the wp-content/xxxxximages folder; however, as I understand
it, “theme images” go in the themes/themename/images folder, and content images
go in the wp-content/images folder.
* The code the guy showed me last night pointed to his image folder in the wp-content
folder.
* Anyway, I just created an image folder in the child theme folder, put the image
in it, and used the themes/themename/image folder path, and it still didn’t work.
I even tried it removing the “uri() designation from the php function: nothing.
* It’s got to be pilot error somewhere, here; I just don’t know where.
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