Wordpress 3.8 image path to image folder not working

Question

This seems to have been asked around, but with different answers.

I've the image folder "images" in the same directory as the page.php file which I want to add images to. Yet the path "images/foldername/image.gif" doesn't yield any images on the page. Whereas from a non-wordpress html file that path would work, so what is the answer to this? What makes wordpress not understand file paths, assuming I'm not missing something?

also tried /images with the slash just in case.

Answer 1

You may use:

echo get_bloginfo('template_url') . 'images/imagename.png';

Or

<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/img.png" />

bloginfo, get bloginfo. Also, read this article.

Answer 2

You mean inside the WordPress themes folder? If so, correct path is http://www.domain.com/subdirectory/wp-content/themes/yourtheme_name/images

You can use <?php get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/images/foldername/image.gif

get_template_directory_uri()