Using Relative Links in Builder Elements

[mhp]

We are in the process of changing both our domain name and hosting service. I’m temporarily trying to use relative links instead absolute ones. The relative links work fine in my pages and posts. But when I try to replace an absolute link in a header, tab or column element in builder layouts.. (i.e. replace

"http://mydomain.com/page1" with "../page1")

I am unable to Update the layout. It seems to freeze. Trying to figure out if this theme related, general WordPress related or maybe even host related. And ideas regarding Alyeska? Perhaps a better way to do this?

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[Jason Bobich]

I have no idea on that one, but in general if the Layout doesn’t save you should have some sort javascript error in your console to give you more info. So, for example load the page with Firebug (for Firefox) or Chrome’s developer tools, and view the “Console” tab. You should have some sort or red error when you try to click save.

[mhp]

Thanks Jason… didn’t think to use FireBug on the console! It was a host issue. Turns out that relative links outside of posts were triggering false positives of a malicious or invalid requests. The hosting service added exceptions to the relevant rules for the wp-admin area.

[Jason Bobich]

Awesome, glad you were able to figure it out.

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