id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
13550	WP_PLUGIN_DIR doesn't detect symlinks	acumensystems	westi	"Hi

I've noticed a number of plugins hardcoding their plugin directories, and I think I see why. If you develop a theme, and that theme depends on plugins, it's tempting to bundle the plugins along with the theme files (i.e. all in wp-content/themes/mytheme).

Then, to allow Wordpress to use these plugins, it's common to symlink wp-content/plugins to wp-content/themes/mytheme/plugins, or somesuch.

That means that plugins using plugin_basename(__FILE__) will break, as the WP_PLUGIN_DIR path will not be removed from the full  returned path.

I've written a patch for wp-includes/default-constants.php that will detect if the plugins directory is a symlink, and if so will use the appropriate correct path as part of the constant, thereby ensuring all paths calculated by plugins are correct based on this constant."	enhancement	closed	normal		Plugins	3.0	minor	wontfix	has-patch 3.2-early	acumensystems tom@… contact@… wptrac@… jltallon