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1. 

   mandava
   Member

   Hi,
   I just got into developing WP themes. I should also mention that my PHP skills are nowhere near 'strong'!

   I started developing a child theme, and I added a logo instead of the default text for the site title. I got the instructions from a topic on the forums here.

   It was working fine on my new default installation of WP 3 on my laptop. But when I uploaded the theme to my server, the logo shows up only on the home page due to permalinks being used on the server.

   On local machine, the css is
   <a href="http://localhost/new/"><img src="wp-content/themes/new/images/logo.png" alt="Logo" /></a>

   Any idea on how to resolve this issue?

   Thanks!

   Posted 1 year ago #
2. 

   helgatheviking
   Moderator

   you can't use http://localhost on your live server, as that only applies to your home computer.

   also wp-content/themes/ is a relative (to whatever page you are currently on) link so it will pretty much never work...as you have noticed.

   what i would do is define a constant for the theme

   define('CHILDTHEME_URI', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/');

   and then change the link to:

   <a href="/"><img src="<?php echo CHILDTHEME_URI . 'images/logo.png' ; ?>" alt="Logo" /></a>

   you can use that constant anywhere you need to get a hyperlink to the theme folder as it will always produce something like

   http://www.domain.com/wp-content/themes/my-theme/

   i left the link to / which means site root (aka home), presuming that your install is in the root directory. i know that with XAMMP or MAMMP or whatever, htdocs is the root directory so you need to add the /new/ to get to the site, but this isn't the case on a live server.

   Posted 1 year ago #
3. 

   mandava
   Member

   Hey,
   Thanks for the reply.

   I'm sorry for asking, but how do you define a constant for the theme?

   Cheers!

   Posted 1 year ago #
4. 

   helgatheviking
   Moderator

   you post the code i gave you into your child theme's functions.php

   define('CHILDTHEME_URI', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/');

   basically you say define('constant name', 'constant value');

   Posted 1 year ago #
5. 

   mandava
   Member

   Cheers!

   It worked.
   Thank you!

   Posted 1 year ago #
6. 

   helgatheviking
   Moderator

   cool. glad it helped.

   Posted 1 year ago #
7. 

   Buy Dog Treats
   Member

   Excellent helping post regarding to download or upload children theme. But one think remained that you not told how can define constant for the theme.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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