Have to always manually add the url

Thank you for your message, and sorry for the delay in replying.

To be honest, it sounds like a WordPress configuration issue – not too sure where to suggest looking…

What happens if you turn off GDE (i.e. deactivate the plugin), and then e.g. try uploading a PDF or DOC? Does it insert the URL to the file in full, or do you see the same issue again?

If it’s the same problem then I guess we conclude it’s a WordPress config issue… if not, then maybe there is something in GDE that could be changed. I can’t promise a fix, but it would be good to know what needs to be targeted anyway.

If anyone else has seen this issue, please jump in.

Regards,

Dan

Just wanted to post that I have not resolved this. I run 50 WordPress web sites and I use GDE on half of them.

Of those 25 sites, GDE works correctly on maybe 22 of them, beginning each embedded tag with ‘https://www.domain.com’. On the other 3 sites, GDE omits the URL and begins the tag with ‘/wp-content….’.

I can’t find the setting controlling this and as you said it seems to be outside of GDE.

I think I’ve tracked this down to being an issue not with your plugin, but with remnants left behind after uninstalling a plugin called Root Relative URLs.

If anyone has any idea what gets left behind from this plugin I’d love to know.

I found my solution. In the wp-config.php file the plug-in Root Relative URLs left behind

define(‘WP_CONTENT_URL’, ‘/wp-content’);

Changing that line to

define(‘WP_CONTENT_URL’, ‘https://’ . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . ‘/wp-content’);

has fixed the problem.