[wp-hackers] WP Development & Production Sites

[Gavin Pearce]

> Bill Dennen wrote: 
> There are a few things that are affected by the full URLs but are not
> strictly problems for developers.

+1. Bill sums up perfectly my next thoughts. 

> Peter Westwood wrote: 
> That is what takes all the unnecessary processing

The interesting part of this, naming no names of course, is that some
people who fear the "unnecessary processing" for relative URLs, were
backing the Wordpress to WordPress unnecessary processing that occurs on
every init for WordPress.  ;)

Surely replacing Wordpress to WordPress is no different resource wise,
than replacing [shorttag] to URL?

> Jacob Santos wrote: 
> I disagree with Peter in that WordPress already does what some would
consider "unnecessary processing" 
> and what one considers unnecessary processing might not be to another
person

+1

G

-----Original Message-----
From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
[mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Bill
Dennen
Sent: 29 November 2010 13:02
To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] WP Development & Production Sites

There are a few things that are affected by the full URLs but are not
strictly problems for developers.

If you want to force a WP post or page to load via https, all of its
images will generate mixed-content warnings in the browser, because
they will load via http. Having relative URLs for media files would
help this. Or, even using //domain.com/file/photo.jpg would help (ie.
remove the protocol). Perhaps output buffering could help here.

If you run the WP backend with this turned on:
define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true);, the images in the rich editor will
still load via http, and this causes mixed-content warnings, too.
Perhaps output buffering could help here too.

Finally, in Multisite, it's not possible to change a site's path (ie.
change its URL), without also doing a find/replace in the database.
The WP backend lets you change the path, including siteurl and home,
but all of the absolute URLs in the content need to be changed as
well.

-Bill
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