WordPress root directory change + Theme directory change

Question

I'd like to create the following structure for my WP installation:

• htdocs (base dir)
  • wp (WordPress dir)
  • themes (WordPress theme dir)
  • plugins (WordPress plugin dir)
  • upload
  • index.php
  • .htaccess

So far I've been able to change the WordPress root directory [1] (which means that even though we're on «wp», we don't see the http://example.com/wp url, but http://example.com (without /wp, which is correct for what I want). However, my first «problem» is that, when accessing to the Dashboard, I do see the '/wp/xxx' in the url. Is that normal?

Plugins and upload folder change work fine. [2]

Themes, don't work fine [3]. I've created my own extension, where I use the register_theme_directory function in the following way:

register_theme_directory(ABSPATH . '../themes');

This makes the themes inside this themes folder show up in the themes selection section on the dashboard. I can select it and the theme is enabled, and it partially works (templates are correctly loaded). However, images don't load because WordPress tries to retrieve a wrong path:

/wp/wp-content/var/www/example.com/htdocs/wp/../themes/wp-softcatala/static/images/softcatala-logotip.jpg

(wp-softcatala is the wordpress theme)

Could anyone tell me why images are not loaded correctly? Why is it using the absolute path? (all directories have correct permissions for apache)

Thanks

• [1] https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
• [2] https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Moving_plugin_folder
• [3] How to move theme directory but not plugins/uploads out of WordPress root directory?

Answer 1

You can move the installation and also plugin and content folder. The follow source demonstrate this.

//*
// Custom content directory
define( 'WP_CONTENT_DIR',  dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/wp-content' );
define( 'WP_CONTENT_URL',  'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/wp-content' );
// Custom plugin directory
define( 'WP_PLUGIN_DIR',   dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/wp-plugins' );
define( 'WP_PLUGIN_URL',   'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/wp-plugins' );
// Custom mu plugin directory
define( 'WPMU_PLUGIN_DIR', dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/wpmu-plugins' );
define( 'WPMU_PLUGIN_URL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/wpmu-plugins' );
/**/

Source for the code example. https://github.com/bueltge/WordPress-Starter/blob/master/wp-config.php

Answer 2

After some more investigation I found that the issue might be on my Timber theme. The variable that retrieves the theme path on Timber side is not correctly set. There is already an existing bug in Timber about this:

https://github.com/jarednova/timber/issues/619#issuecomment-136096298