Title: Custom wp-content folder not supported? Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Custom wp-content folder not supported? * Resolved [simenschi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simenschi/) * (@simenschi) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-wp-content-folder-not-supported/) * Hi! I’m setting up all my WordPress sites with WordPress in a sub directory and wp-content in a custom folder, as recommended by [WordPress-Skeleton](https://github.com/markjaquith/WordPress-Skeleton), [Roots/Bedrock](http://roots.io/) among others. * Does the Booking Calendar plugin support this at all? I haven’t had any problems with structuring wordpress this way before, but when I install Booking Calendar the layout seemed wrong, and it didn’t find any images, so I checked the sources, and it shows that Booking Calendar uses “/wp-content”, even though the default wp-content directory is set to something different. Other plugins work fine on the same installation. Look at the screenshot bellow(showing URL’s for Booking Calendar and the Types plugin in the same installation): [https://www.dropbox.com/s/3230wn004k42wxp/Screenshot%202014-01-26%2011.12.33.png](https://www.dropbox.com/s/3230wn004k42wxp/Screenshot%202014-01-26%2011.12.33.png) * Here’s a screenshot of Booking Calendars main page in the wordpress dashboard: [https://www.dropbox.com/s/c0juo10xvotgtvf/Screenshot%202014-01-26%2011.20.02.png](https://www.dropbox.com/s/c0juo10xvotgtvf/Screenshot%202014-01-26%2011.20.02.png) * Looks to me that the URL Booking Calendar is using for wp_content is hard coded instead of using [WordPress’ content_url()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/content_url)..? Is this a known bug, and/or is there any way to get around this? * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/booking/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/booking/) Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Plugin Author [wpdevelop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdevelop/) * (@wpdevelop) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-wp-content-folder-not-supported/#post-4544273) * Hello. Its known issue. We will fix it in next update. In the actual version, you are need to make this fix. Please open this file ../booking/wpdev-booking. php * then find this code: * ``` if (!defined('WP_CONTENT_DIR')) define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', ABSPATH . 'wp-content'); if (!defined('WP_CONTENT_URL')) define('WP_CONTENT_URL', $wpdev_bk_my_site_url . '/wp-content'); if (!defined('WP_PLUGIN_DIR')) define('WP_PLUGIN_DIR', WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/plugins'); if (!defined('WP_PLUGIN_URL')) define('WP_PLUGIN_URL', WP_CONTENT_URL . '/plugins'); if (!defined('WPDEV_BK_PLUGIN_FILENAME')) define('WPDEV_BK_PLUGIN_FILENAME', basename( __FILE__ ) ); if (!defined('WPDEV_BK_PLUGIN_DIRNAME')) define('WPDEV_BK_PLUGIN_DIRNAME', plugin_basename(dirname(__FILE__)) ); if (!defined('WPDEV_BK_PLUGIN_DIR')) define('WPDEV_BK_PLUGIN_DIR', WP_PLUGIN_DIR.'/'.WPDEV_BK_PLUGIN_DIRNAME ); if (!defined('WPDEV_BK_PLUGIN_URL')) define('WPDEV_BK_PLUGIN_URL', $wpdev_bk_my_site_url.'/wp-content/plugins/'.WPDEV_BK_PLUGIN_DIRNAME ); ``` * and replace it to this code: * ``` if (!defined('WP_CONTENT_DIR')) define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', ABSPATH . 'wp-content'); // Z:\home\server.com\www/wp-content if (!defined('WP_PLUGIN_DIR')) define('WP_PLUGIN_DIR', WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/plugins'); // Z:\home\server.com\www/wp-content/plugins if (!defined('WPDEV_BK_PLUGIN_FILENAME')) define('WPDEV_BK_PLUGIN_FILENAME', basename( __FILE__ ) ); // menu-compouser.php if (!defined('WPDEV_BK_PLUGIN_DIRNAME')) define('WPDEV_BK_PLUGIN_DIRNAME', plugin_basename(dirname(__FILE__)) ); // menu-compouser if (!defined('WPDEV_BK_PLUGIN_DIR')) define('WPDEV_BK_PLUGIN_DIR', WP_PLUGIN_DIR.'/'.WPDEV_BK_PLUGIN_DIRNAME ); // Z:\home\server.com\www/wp-content/plugins/menu-compouser if (!defined('WP_CONTENT_URL')) define('WP_CONTENT_URL', content_url() ); // http://server.com/wp-content if (!defined('WP_PLUGIN_URL')) define('WP_PLUGIN_URL', plugins_url() ); // http://server.com/wp-content/plugins if (!defined('WPDEV_BK_PLUGIN_URL')) define('WPDEV_BK_PLUGIN_URL', plugins_url( '', WPDEV_BK_FILE ) ); // http://server.com/wp-content/plugins/menu-compouser ``` * Also please open this file ../booking/lib/wpdev-booking-class.php * then find this code: * ``` var wpdev_bk_plugin_url = ''; ``` * and replace it to this code: * ``` var wpdev_bk_plugin_url = ''; ``` * Thread Starter [simenschi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simenschi/) * (@simenschi) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-wp-content-folder-not-supported/#post-4544287) * Great, thank you! * Looking forward to the update! * Thread Starter [simenschi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simenschi/) * (@simenschi) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-wp-content-folder-not-supported/#post-4544522) * Seems I’ve got another issue after I edited the file. Now I’m getting the 500 server error, and the file _/app/plugins/booking/wpdev-booking.php_ says I can’t access it. Even though I’ve set the permissions to 777, 755 and 644. The file says “You do not have permission to direct access to this file !!!” no matter what. * Is there anything else I can check besides the permissions? * Plugin Author [wpdevelop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdevelop/) * (@wpdevelop) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-wp-content-folder-not-supported/#post-4544523) * Hello. 1) This warning “”You do not have permission to direct access to this file !!!” is correct, it have to be so, if you try to open the direct URL to that file in browser. * 2) According 500 server error. Please recheck carefully, that you was made all changes correctly and do not make any mistakes. Please recheck the error.log file of your server, so you be sure in a reason of that issue and then we can fix it. Kind regards. * Thread Starter [simenschi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simenschi/) * (@simenschi) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-wp-content-folder-not-supported/#post-4544524) * Thanks for the quick answer! * 1) Ah, I see. * 2) I reinstalled the plugin and did the changes to the files carefully to make sure I didn’t make any mistakes before. But I still get the same error. The error log(in chrome) says the following: * `POST http://test.bookingcalendar.dev/app/plugins/booking/wpdev-booking.php 500( Internal Server Error)` * I checked the PHP-log, which says the following: `[05-Feb-2014 10:24:34 UTC] PHP Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/Users/lain/Public/Testprosjekter/booking_calendar/ app/plugins/booking/../../../wp-load.php' (include_path='.:/Applications/MAMP/ bin/php/php5.3.14/lib/php') in /Users/lain/Public/Testprosjekter/booking_calendar/ app/plugins/booking/wpdev-booking.php on line 183` * In other words, it’s trying to access the wp-load.php file thats in the root of the wordpress installation, but since I have mine in a sub folder the path is wrong. So I guess the line 183 in _wpdev-booking.php_ `require_once( dirname( __FILE__) . '/../../../wp-load.php' );` should be a path containing the wordpress core-folder. [Found some thoughts about that here.](http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/76463/how-to-determine-wordpress-base-path-when-wordpress-core-is-not-loaded) But I guess there should be a way to find the wordpress core path fom wordpress itself..? * Anyway, I changed the path to my wordpress core folder(which was sub folder), and that did the trick. * Plugin Author [wpdevelop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdevelop/) * (@wpdevelop) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-wp-content-folder-not-supported/#post-4544525) * Hello. Good to know that you fixed an issue. And thank you about your suggestion. I will add this fix to the next update. Kind regards. * [stephanieailie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephanieailie/) * (@stephanieailie) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-wp-content-folder-not-supported/#post-4544559) * I also having the same issue. But I couldn’t find the code that you have stated in the file ../booking/wpdev-booking.php and ../booking/lib/wpdev-booking-class. php. * Anyway have this issue being fix? * Warmest regards. * Plugin Author [wpdevelop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdevelop/) * (@wpdevelop) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-wp-content-folder-not-supported/#post-4544560) * Hello. If you are using latest version 5.1.6, so all files includes you can find at the ../booking/lib/wpdev-include.php file. * But please, note, the latest 5.1.6 update have to support the custom wp-content folder. Did you sure that issue relative to the wrong folder ? Kind Regards. 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