New function: `upload_url()`

[sebastian.pisula]

Retrieve the url to the uploads directory.

[DrewAPicture]

#33964 was marked as a duplicate.

[johnbillion]

Thanks for the patch, Sebastian.

What's the use case for needing the URL for the uploads directory?

[wonderboymusic]

@sebastian.pisula, minor nitpick: the second part, you can just set it to $upload_dir['url'] instead of adding the string

[swissspidy]

What's the use case for needing the URL for the uploads directory?

Perhaps we could use this function at various places in core where $upload_dir['url'] is accessed directly?

$url = upload_url() isn't much of an improvement over $upload_dir = wp_upload_dir(); $url = $upload_dir['url'] though.

[sebastian.pisula]

Refresh path

[sebastian.pisula]

Refresh patch.

[desrosj]

@sebastianpisula is this still of interest to you? If so, the patch needs refreshing.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/33963

Adds a new upload_url() helper function that returns the uploads directory URL.

• Defaults to returning the current time-based uploads URL (wp_upload_dir()['url']).
• Optionally returns the base uploads URL without the subdirectory.
• Returns an empty string on error.
• Provides clearer naming and documentation compared to direct wp_upload_dir() access.