Comments on: moving the wordpress wp-content folder

By: John Girvin

John Girvin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:09:45 +0000

Every plugin is different, but typical problems will be the use of hardcoded paths accessing files in the plugins own folder, which obviously don’t work if you rename or move wp-content.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:36:50 +0000

oh hey, BTW. How can you check if plugins are compatible with this? Is there something in the plugin code that I can look for to determine if the URL is hard coded or is compatible with this?

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:59:23 +0000

Thank you. This is the only good guide I’ve found to moving wp-content. I like to do this to remove all wp- prefixes for security through obscurity AND so my competitors in a couple niches don’t realize that what I do can be done easily with WordPress :)

By: Anthony Galli

Anthony Galli — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:35:54 +0000

Thanks a lot, I needed a way to get wo-content absolute path and WP_CONTENT_DIR just did the trick!

By: Brandon Gonzales

Brandon Gonzales — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:06:54 +0000

Great! I moved the entire directory structure of my site and the wp-content folder was created under the old / directory. It was all the fault of the Uploading Files configuration routine.

Thanks for the how-to.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:51:51 +0000

I’m a n00b, got it. This all has to appear before the include of settings.php

By: John Girvin

John Girvin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:57:07 +0000

That's what I have in my wp-config too. Check the following:

What do your WP_CONTENT_DIR and WP_CONTENT_URL resolve to?
Is mod_rewrite loaded and working?
Did you make the .htaccess file changes?

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:32:04 +0000

I added the two lines in my wp-config and now I see nothing. Any idea why?

define(‘WP_CONTENT_DIR’, $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . ‘/resources’);
define(‘WP_CONTENT_URL’, ‘/resources’);

By: John Girvin

John Girvin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:03:05 +0000

The blogs could share the files, but they would not share the media database entries so cross-blog search wouldn't work. I'm not completely sure what you're trying to achieve, but perhaps Wordpress MU would be able to do what you need. The plugin / theme issue is down to problems in the plugins and themes themselves and can only be resolved with updates to the individual packages. Most will work, so on your development system just check the ones you're considering using. It will be obvious if they're not compatible.

By: Kian

Kian — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:58:34 +0000

If I were to move the content folder to be the same across multiple blogs would they share their content? I would love to make it so that a few blogs could have integrated content and searches. Also has there been an update with the plugin/theme issue that doesn’t involve the workaround you suggest?
Thanks!