Make Paths Relative

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 74% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ tudorilisoi

   1.1y ago

   it makes local dev to deploy frictionless This topic was modified 11 months, 3 weeks ago by tudorilisoi.

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2. ★★★★★ KJ

   4.1y ago

   I have a clean WordPress install using the Twenty Twenty-Two Version: 1.2 theme. The only plugin installed is yours, ‘Make Paths Relative’. In settings I checked the box for ‘Image Paths’. Then changed the WordPress > Settings > General > Timezone from ‘London’ to ‘Los Angeles’ Then BOOM! the following error appears: One or more database tables are unavailable. The database may need to be repaired. Upon investigation in myPHPAdmin we discovered that the _options table field ‘option_name’ > ‘siteurl’ and ‘home’ were blank where the websites url should be. Once, we manually put in the URL into these fields, went back to the site, and refreshed; it worked again until we changed the timezone back again. We also tested this on different web hosts, servers, and with different themes and were able to reproduce the behaviour.

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3. ★★★★★ tsf999

   4.7y ago

   Not working with WP 5.8, broke site completely while links are still absolute.

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4. ★★★★★ Mauricio Lopez Coria

   5.4y ago

   Lightweight, easy to use, and it works. One of my must-have plugins.

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5. ★★★★★ vor23

   6.2y ago

   This is just the perfect plugin: I installed it, easily set it the way I want it, then refreshed my site and immediately saw the results. If only all plugins were this straightforward, quick, and effective!

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6. ★★★★★ Fabrício

   6.8y ago

   I didn’t like the plugin. While enabled, it broke internal site links. Both http and https gave “too many redirects” error. Also, the tools to share on Twitter, Facebook, etc. gave error because the URL appeared relative (without the site domain). Just disable the plugin for both problems to end. I do not recommend.

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7. ★★★★★ alban74

   7.0y ago

   This plug-in has been very useful for me, as I am using Pantheon hosting and their Dev, Test, Live workflow. Making all paths relative helped to simplify everything and avoided an environment referring to links or assets from another as deployments go upstream. I ever had a small conflict with Yoast that would make the paths in sitemaps relative when MPR was activated, but a simple issue report to the plugin author, who has been reactive, helped fix this issue. Thanks again for providing this plug-in

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8. ★★★★★ photocurio

   7.4y ago

   This plugin is pretty good. For some installations it does not work. For example, a sub directory multisite environment will not work correctly. And many dynamic URLs output from get_template_directory_uri() still have absolute URLS.

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1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 4.3 Make Paths Relative <= 1.3.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via 'admin/class-make-paths-relative-admin.php' ↗
   2023-08-14 CVE-2023-27433 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 1.3.0 Patched in 2.0.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.5.5

Translated into 8 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-03-20 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2026-03-19 2K+ → 3K+ up after 7 days in tier
3. 2026-03-12 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2026-03-11 2K+ → 3K+ up after 3 days in tier
5. 2026-03-08 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
6. 2026-03-07 2K+ → 3K+ up after 38 days in tier
7. 2026-01-28 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
8. 2026-01-27 2K+ → 3K+ up after 2 days in tier

Competes with

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Make Paths Relative: 2K+ active installs, 4.1★ (15 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/make-paths-relative