[RESOLVED] PLEASE STOP HARDCODING WP-CONTENT!!!

edited June 2015 in Theme support
wp-content is hard-coded into the Demo files.

This is broadly known by all WordPress developers to be very poor practice:
https://willnorris.com/2009/05/wordpress-plugin-pet-peeve-hardcoding-wp-content
http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/25-most-common-wordpress-mistakes-to-avoid/ (see #24)

This means that the demo installations break on any website that has wp-content renamed or moved for security purposes.

Please fix this issue retrospectively and going forward. I submitted this issue as feature request for a separate matter 5 months ago but received no acknowledgment:
http://forum.muffingroup.com/betheme/discussion/comment/11889/#Comment_11889

As an interim solution, I need to manually change the paths of all demo images but naturally, it would be better to not have to do this at all.

Thanks for an otherwise great theme. :-)

Comments

  • edited June 2015
    Hmm, if the demo installer relies on XML data, you may not have a means of dynamically fetching the name of the content directory.

    Perhaps a footnote in the official documentation is the way to go.
  • Hi,

    this is unfortunately not possible to do this and there is a reason why all most popular themes got this directory hardcoded. If this won't be made like this, most things like styles and other elements won't work.

    Thanks for understanding!
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