Retrieve WordPress root directory path

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How can I retrieve the path to the root directory in WordPress CMS

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If you have WordPress bootstrap loaded you can use get home path   function to get path to the WordPress root directory

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theme root directory path code     lt  php  root path   get home path      gt   print  Path     root path       Return  Path   var www htdocs   or  Path     var www htdocs wordpress   if it is subfolder      Theme Root Path     theme root   get theme root     echo  theme root      Results -  home user public html wp-content themes

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Please try this for get the url of root file    First Way      path   get home path       print  Path     path      Return  Path   var www htdocs   or      Path   var www htdocs wordpress   if it is subfolder   Second Way   And you can also use        ABSPATH   this constant is define in wordpress config file

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Looking at the bottom of your wp-config php file in the wordpress root directory will let you find something like this      if    defined  ABSPATH         define  ABSPATH   dirname   FILE              For an example file have a look here  http   core trac wordpress org browser trunk wp-config-sample php  You can make use of this constant called ABSPATH in other places of your wordpress scripts and in most cases it should point to your wordpress root directory

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There are 2 answers for this question Url  amp  directory  Either way  the elegant way would be to define two constants for later use   define  ROOT URL  get site url      define  ROOT DIR  get theme root

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I think this would do the trick   function get wp installation          full path   getcwd         ar   explode  wp-    full path       return  ar 0

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Note  This answer is really old and things may have changed in WordPress land since   I am guessing that you need to detect the WordPress root from your plugin or theme  I use the following code in FireStats to detect the root WordPress directory where FireStats is installed a a WordPress plugin   function fs get wp config path          base   dirname   FILE          path   false       if   file exists dirname dirname  base     wp-config php                   path   dirname dirname  base     wp-config php             else     if   file exists dirname dirname dirname  base      wp-config php                   path   dirname dirname dirname  base      wp-config php             else          path   false       if   path    false                 path   str replace             path             return  path

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I like  Omry Yadan s solution but I think it can be improved upon to use a loop in case you want to continue traversing up the directory tree until you find where wp-config php actually lives  Of course  if you don t find it and end up in the server s root then all is lost and we return a sane value  false    function wp get web root         base   dirname   FILE        path   false     while   path  amp  amp          base        if  file exists dirname  base     wp-config php            path   dirname  base         else          base   dirname  base                return  path

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For retrieving the path you can use a function  lt  php  path   get home path      gt   I do not want to just repeat what had been already said here  but I want to add one more thing   If you are using windows server  which is rare case for WordPress installation  but still happens sometimes  you might face a problem with the path output  It might miss a      somewhere and you will get an error if you will be using such a path  So when outputting make sure to sanitize the path    lt  php    path   get home path      path   wp normalize path   path       now  path is ready to be used       gt

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echo ABSPATH     This shows the absolute path of WordPress  ABSPATH is a constant defined in the wp-config php file

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You can use get site url   function to get the base url of the wordpress site   For more information  please visit http   codex wordpress org Function Reference get site url

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Try this function for get root directory path   get template directory uri

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This an old question  but I have a new answer  This single line will return the path inside a template       wp root path   str replace   wp-content themes       get theme root

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