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Current Status of the WP install
- You have installed a local WordPress Development env [ XAMPP ] using localhost as your WP URL
- Testing your smartphone devices connected via WLAN fails during loading images
- You checked the images in your HTML page and found that WordPress is using localhost in your image URL
<img class="htmlImage" src="http://localhost/wordpress/wp-content/themes/twentyfifteen-child/images/htmlImages/abu1.jpg" ..
- In your WordPress HTML page you reference the images by using get_stylesheet_directory_uri() like
<img class="htmlImage" src=[insert_php]echo get_stylesheet_directory_uri()."/images/htmlImages/abu1.jpg
- Checking your current WordPress Settings via admin dashboard > Settings > General
WordPress-Address (URL) : http://locahost/wordpress Website-Address (URL) : http://localhost/wordpress
- It’s obvious that this HTML Page will fail for our Remote Devices [ like Nexius 6P ] as the we are not running a local Webserver.
Fix : Change the WordPress Address (URL) line and Site Address (URL) lines from localhost to your DHCP address [ 192.168.1.6 ] and save the changes
- Login to WordPress admin dashboard > Settings > General and change the WP URLs by using the DHCP address
http://192.168.1.6/wordpress http://192.168.1.6/wordpress
Now your testing should be fine as your image URL is now using the DHCP IP address instead of localhost.