Title: Directory Structure
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Directory Structure

 *  [lane](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lane/)
 * (@lane)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-structure/)
 * I was never really familiar with b2, but it seems the root directory is a tad
   bit messy. Is there any plans to clean this up in future WP releases? Making 
   it more OO? Just curious.

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 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-structure/#post-23838)
 * I don’t really think blog-ware is complex enough to require OO-level programming.
   Remember OO comes with a performance hit which is why you rarely see little projects
   done in Java or ASP.NET. On the other hand, I don’t really think OO has anything
   to do with how messy the file structure is and I think some clean-up should be
   done..namely
    b2[commnents][trackbacks][pingbacks]popup.php <- really need to
   be a seperate file? b2login.php <- can we merge this with b2edit.php? b2[rss][
   rss2][rdf].php <- can this be just b2rss.php using query string to seperate what
   format of syndication? mod_rewriting things back to clean URLs isn’t that hard
   to do you know, espcially when you have example.htaccess ready and you can stick
   the rewrite rules in there so newbies won’t have to deal with regEx. b2calendar.
   php <- why isn’t this in the template file? b2mail.php <- rarely publicly accessed,
   stick it in the include folder maybe? blog.header.php + b2config.php <- can probably
   be merged
 *  [gfmorris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gfmorris/)
 * (@gfmorris)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-structure/#post-23911)
 * I ranted on this in an install thread because it gave me issues with my install,
   but I think best practices should dictate that WordPress should not be installed
   into the root directory. It makes far more sense to me to have it in a subdirectory[/
   wordpress/ for the uncreative] not only to keep the root directory fairly clean
   but also because that dir could be obfuscated and protected by robots.txt if 
   need be to increase security a tiny bit.
    This would, of course, require some
   files to be in a “safe zone” — for one, the syndication files — but I think it’s
   worthwhile as a long-term goal. Or, well, a short-term one. I think it’s just
   a couple php variables away.
 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-structure/#post-23913)
 * One of the advantages of having a wp-admin directory is that you can htaccess
   protect it on a directory level if you so choose.
 *  [gfmorris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gfmorris/)
 * (@gfmorris)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-structure/#post-24006)
 * Sure. But shouldn’t the whole totality of the WP install be similarly in a directory?
 *  [FireMotion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/firemotion/)
 * (@firemotion)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-structure/#post-24171)
 * Having a different location for index.php doesn’t require all that too much coding.
   But my site has these locations:
    /index.php (my index page) /m_blog.php (my 
   archives page) /wordpress/ (my wordpress directory) So with each release, I have
   to edit at least these files (if I remember correctly): /wordpress/index.php /
   wordpress/wp-comments.php /wordpress/wp-includes/template-functions.php And then
   I include the /wordpress/index.php in my (edited) /index.php and /m_blog.php.
   This root directory “feature” that WordPress incorporated from b2 doesn’t make
   it very flexible. It’d be more flexible if WordPress allowed this out-of-the 
   box, but it doesn’t. Yet?

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 * Last activity: [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/directory-structure/#post-24171)
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