Development workflow for Wordpress using git - issues with plugins and bloginfo('wpurl')

Question

I'm going with this git workflow for my current wordpress project which I'm running locally using MAMP. It allows me to separate the WP core files from the theme and plugin folders using submodules, which is great. My wp-config has some extra entries to tell Wordpress where the core files are and where the theme folders are:

if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
    define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/wordpress/');

define('WP_HOME', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/core');
define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/core/wordpress');
define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', realpath(ABSPATH . '../wp-content/'));
define('WP_CONTENT_URL', WP_HOME . '/wp-content');
define('UPLOADS', '../wp-content/uploads');

My structure from the site root looks like:

-wordpress (contains core files)
-wp-content
    -themes
    -plugins
    -uploads
-wp-config.php

So my home url is: http://localhost:8888/core/

The issues I'm running into all over is with the plugins. Some of them are using get_bloginfo('wpurl') to load assets. So an example of that would look like this:

http://localhost:8888/core/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/{PLUGIN}/images/{PLUGIN_IMAGE}.png

where it should actually be:

http://localhost:8888/core/wp-content/plugins/{PLUGIN}/images/{PLUGIN_IMAGE}.png

Can I override this somehow without modifying the plugins individually?

Answer 1

bloginfo/get_bloginfo use site_url to retrieve the wpurl value, site_url provides the site_url filter, so you should be able to use that filter to alter the output.

function alter_site_url_wpse_107701($url) {
  return str_replace('/core/wordpress','/core',$url);
}
add_filter('site_url','alter_site_url_wpse_107701');

I am guessing a bit at exactly what you need to replace, but I think that is close.