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Vantorix – Subfolder Link Fixer
v1.1.0 · by Vantorix
Makes root-relative links like "/" and "/about-us/" work when WordPress is installed in a subfolder. No database changes.
About this plugin
Links such as /, /about-us/ or /contact/ are handy because they work on any domain. But when WordPress lives in a subfolder — for example https://example.com/demo/ — those links jump to the domain root and visitors land on the wrong page or a 404.
Subfolder Link Fixer detects your site’s subfolder from the Home URL and quietly fixes those links in the page sent to the browser:
href="/"becomeshref="/demo/"href="/about-us/"becomeshref="/demo/about-us/"- Form actions like
action="/contact/"are fixed too.
Nothing is written to your content. Your posts, menus and page-builder data stay exactly as they were, so you can move the site back to a root domain, export it, or switch the plugin off at any time.
Features
- Automatic subfolder detection from the Home URL — nothing to configure.
- Choose what to fix: links (
href), form actions (action), images and scripts (src) and responsive images (srcset). - Excluded paths: keep links that should really leave the site, such as
/shop/on the same domain, untouched. - Manual subfolder for sites served from a folder by a reverse proxy.
- Live link tester on the settings screen shows exactly what visitors get.
- Automatic page-cache clearing when settings change, for LiteSpeed Cache, WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache and SiteGround Optimizer.
- Debug comment for administrators with the number of links fixed on a page.
- Site Health section under Tools Site Health Info.
- WP-CLI:
wp subfolder-links statusandwp subfolder-links test / /about-us/.
Good for
- Theme and template-kit demo sites hosted side by side, e.g.
example.com/kit-one/,example.com/kit-two/. - Staging copies that live in a subfolder of the live domain.
- Subdirectory Multisite networks — every subsite gets its own folder automatically.
- Imported content or page-builder layouts that contain hard-coded
/links.
What it leaves alone
- Protocol-relative links (
//cdn.example.com/...) and full URLs. - Links that already include the subfolder, and paths you exclude.
data-*attributes.- Admin screens, AJAX, REST API, feeds and the Elementor editor preview.
- Sites installed at the domain root — the plugin simply stays idle.
For developers
vantorix_slf_attributes— array of attributes to rewrite.vantorix_slf_excluded_paths— array of path prefixes to skip.vantorix_slf_should_run— returnfalseto skip the current request.vantorix_slf_purge_caches— action fired after settings change; purge your own cache here.
Example: skip rewriting on one page.
add_filter( 'vantorix_slf_should_run', function ( $run ) {
return is_page( 'landing' ) ? false : $run;
} );