How to get the current plugin directory in WordPress

Question

I need to get the current plugin directory like    wordpress install dir  wp-content plugins plugin name    if getcwd   called from the plugin  it returns  wordpress install dir   the root of installation   thanks for help

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If you want to get current directory path within a file for that you can magic constants __FILE__ and __DIR__ with plugin_dir_path() function as:

$dir_path = plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ );

CurrentDirectory Path:

/home/user/var/www/wordpress_site/wp-content/plugins/custom-plugin/

__FILE__ magic constant returns current directory path.

If you want to one level up from the current directory. You should use __DIR__ magic constant as:

Current Path:

/home/user/var/www/wordpress_site/wp-content/plugins/custom-plugin/

$dir = plugin_dir_path( __DIR__ );

One level up path:

 /home/user/var/www/wordpress_site/wp-content/plugins/

__DIR__ magic constant returns one level up directory path.

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full path   WP PLUGIN URL        str replace  basename    FILE          plugin basename   FILE          WP PLUGIN URL     the url of the plugins directory WP PLUGIN DIR     the server path to the plugins directory    This link may help  http   codex wordpress org Determining Plugin and Content Directories

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Try this   function PluginUrl                Try to use WP API if possible  introduced in WP 2 6         if  function exists  plugins url    return trailingslashit plugins url basename dirname   FILE                   Try to find manually    can t work if wp-content was renamed or is redirected          path   dirname   FILE              path   str replace           path            path   trailingslashit get bloginfo  wpurl      trailingslashit substr  path strpos  path  wp-content               return  path          echo PluginUrl    will return the current plugin url

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To get the plugin directory you can use the Wordpress function plugin basename  file   So you would use is as follows to extract the folder and filename of the plugin    plugin directory   plugin basename   FILE        You can combine this with the URL or the server path of the plugin directory  Therefor you can use the constants WP PLUGIN URL to get the plugin directory url or WP PLUGIN DIR to get the server path  But as Mark Jaquith mentioned in a comment below this only works if the plugins resides in the Wordpress plugin directory   Read more about it in the Wordpress codex

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Looking at your own answer  Bog  I think you want    plugin dir path   dirname   FILE

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This will actually get the result you want    lt  php plugin dir url   FILE       gt    http   codex wordpress org Function Reference plugin dir url

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Why not use the WordPress core function that s designed specifically for that purpose    lt  php plugin dir path    FILE        gt    See Codex documentation here   You also have   lt  php plugin dir url    FILE        gt    if what you re looking for is a URI as opposed to a server path   See Codex documentation here   IMO it s always best to use the highest-level method that s available in core  and this is it  It makes your code more future proof

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When I need to get the directory  not only for the plugins  plugin dir path   but a more generic one  you can use   DIR    it will give you the path of the directory of the file where is called  Now you can used from functions php or another file   Description      The directory of the file  If used inside an include  the directory of   the included file is returned  This is equivalent to   dirname   FILE     This directory name does not have a trailing slash   unless it is the root directory  1

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Since WP 2 6 0 you can use plugins url   method

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