Title: Protocol Relative Theme Assets
Author: ryanjbonnell
Published: May 21, 2014
Last modified: May 21, 2014
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# Protocol Relative Theme Assets
By [ryanjbonnell](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ryanjbonnell/)
[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/protocol-relative-theme-assets.zip)
* [Details](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/protocol-relative-theme-assets/#description)
* [Reviews](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/protocol-relative-theme-assets/#reviews)
* [Installation](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/protocol-relative-theme-assets/#installation)
* [Development](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/protocol-relative-theme-assets/#developers)
[Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/protocol-relative-theme-assets/)
## Description
This plugin transforms any registered, enqueued CSS or JavaScript URLs into their“
protocol-relative” equivalent.
Consider the following examples:
**Protocol Relative CSS URL**
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**Protocol Relative Javascript URL**
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More appropriately called a “network-path reference” or “scheme-relative path”,
a protocol-relative URL helps to avoid common scenarios such as:
* Broken SSL padlock icon in browser’s address bar when showing mixed HTTP/HTTPS
content
* Error message in Internet Explorer saying, “This Page Contains Both Secure and
Non-Secure Items”
* Serving HTTP assets when viewing HTTPS pages
The idea of using protocol-relative URLs was popularized by [Paul Irish](http://paulirish.com/2010/the-protocol-relative-url/)
and has become common as sites switch between serving HTTP and HTTPS assets.
This plugin will standardize all properly enqueued theme files to use protocol-relative
paths, even those added from third-party plugins.
_Note: This plugin does not transform any image paths that may be embedded in the
WordPress editor or output as featured images or elsewhere in the theme — it presently
only works on enqueued CSS/JavaScript files._
## Installation
1. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in the WordPress admin.
## Reviews
### [Still works with 4.3.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/still-works-with-43/)
[massafiri](https://profiles.wordpress.org/massafiri/) September 3, 2016
Life saving plugin. After moving to HTTPs, a lot of the assets from Masterslider
broke and caused very broken looking homepages. Installation of this plugin fixed
that, no configuration required. As fabian mentioned, this won’t update the images
on the site to pull from HTTPs.. but it’s not designed to do that, and many images
are hard coded by your CSS; so it’s hardly fair to give this plugin less than 5
stars as it does exactly as it promises.
[ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/protocol-relative-theme-assets/reviews/)
## Contributors & Developers
“Protocol Relative Theme Assets” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
* [ ryanjbonnell ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ryanjbonnell/)
[Translate “Protocol Relative Theme Assets” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/protocol-relative-theme-assets)
### Interested in development?
[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/protocol-relative-theme-assets/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/protocol-relative-theme-assets/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/protocol-relative-theme-assets/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/protocol-relative-theme-assets/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).
## Changelog
#### 1.0
* Initial release
## Meta
* Version **1.0**
* Last updated **12 years ago**
* Active installations **20+**
* WordPress version ** 3.6 or higher **
* Tested up to **4.0.38**
* Language
* [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/protocol-relative-theme-assets/)
* Tags
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* [Advanced View](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/protocol-relative-theme-assets/advanced/)
## Ratings
4 out of 5 stars.
* [ 1 5-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/protocol-relative-theme-assets/reviews/?filter=5)
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## Contributors
* [ ryanjbonnell ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ryanjbonnell/)
## Support
Got something to say? Need help?
[View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/protocol-relative-theme-assets/)
## Donate
Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin?
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