[wp-hackers] Why always absolute paths?

[Christian Foster]

I use constants wherever possible - you can find a list here
http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/2008/08/wordpress-constants/.

Towards the bottom is:

WP_CONTENT_DIR
WP_CONTENT_URL

Chris.

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Jon Brown <jbrown510 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please excuse me if I jump into this and my question is a OT, it does seems on topic to me...  but I'm just starting to lurk here to get a feel.  Anyway...
>
> Is there an equivalent to <?php bloginfo('template_directory');?> that points to the /wp-content folder?  It seems to me that it would at least provide a bridge for those that need it, like me, to make moving sites between domains easier?
>
> I find myself often developing at http://example.com/dev and later moving to http://example.com/ or http://example.com/blog.  I could then use SQL to replace any errant instances of  http://example.com/dev/wp-content to <?php bloginfo('wp-content');?> prior to moving the site... would that even work?  php in the link fields?
>
> Thanks for your patience,
> Jon
>
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