Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer Path Conflict

FYI. Been pulling my hair out all week over this. I don’t think this is an issue for tagdiv but please readon..any ideas welcome.

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Wordpress 4.5.2
Newspaper 7.1.1 DEMO: Say What – with full demo settings
Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer: Version 3.16.4
WPBakery Visual Composer: Version 4.11.2
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The template and plugins work together (with the above versions) when images are specified for “Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders”

but….. For those who put the media outside of the wp-content folder, such as yourdomain.com/media/ or yourdomain.com/images/ by adding this code to wp-config.php

/** Sets up WordPress Images in images folder. */
define( 'UPLOADS', ''.'images' );

and unchecking the media folder at /wp-admin/options-media.php
or settings/media/ uploading files box

Does NOT Work. The Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer: Version 3.16.4 will rewrite your image media path to wp-content/uploads/ regardless.

So if your images are in the images directory you CAN’T use this plugin, Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer: Version 3.16.4

I am not changing my directory and redirecting images. Don’t want any part of that.

I’m also working with their tech support on the plugin to try and find why it’s rewriting to the wp-content path and not respecting the images path I set forth.

If anyone has an idea on how to fix this, I would be most grateful.

Thank you

I have fixed the issue, it was a simple mistake in my wp-config.php file.

I just moved the ‘define( ‘UPLOADS’, ”.’images’ );’ few lines above in the wp-config file.

This was originally added as the last line in the wp-config file, but WordPress ignores settings after wp-settings.php file is loaded which overrides settings from core.

I also optimized the Database and that seemed to fix some issues.

So Everything works with the template, and above versions listed. Once can buy Newspaper and use Say What template and Ultimate Addons with confidence.

Thanks