helpers_get_dir fails when plugins directory is symlinked

• erikostling

• January 28, 2014 at 4:58 am

I’m working on a site where the plugins directory is symlinked into the wp-content directory.

Unfortunately this makes the function helpers_get_dir fail. Instead of returning a url the plugin directory it returns it’s system path. This in turn leads to stylesheets and javascripts not loading.

I’ve found that helpers_get_dir is called as a filter so in theory I guess it would be possible to add another filter that returns a correct path. But it seems that if I add such a filter in functions.php it doesn’t get defined ahead of the loading of acf.php…

Has anyone got an idea of how to fix this? As now I have to make a “hack” in the function in acf.php file and it’s neither pretty or future safe.

Best regards

• James

• January 28, 2014 at 5:03 am

Hi @erikostling,

This is a known issue => https://github.com/elliotcondon/acf/issues/124

• erikostling

• January 28, 2014 at 5:18 am

Thank you! I guess defining a correct path on the WP_PLUGIN_DIR constant in my wp-config.php file will solve the problem. 🙂