Title: OOPS? does WP use a folder called “content” ???
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# OOPS? does WP use a folder called “content” ???

 *  [MouseClicks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mouseclicks/)
 * (@mouseclicks)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/oops-does-wp-use-a-folder-called-content/)
 * Hi,
 * I unzipped WP into my client’s folder on my hard drive and uploaded the folders
   and files via FTP to do the install. I keep a folder in each individual’s clients
   sites on my hard drive called “content” where I keep duhhh … the client’s content
   files. I just went to look for something in this folder to add another page to
   her site and I now see WP files in this content folder. I know I did not conciously
   put the WP files there. So, now I’m thinking I don’t have all the WP files uploaded
   to the FTP.
 * In my ftp I have these folders that contain the files included when I unzipped:
 * wp-admin
    wp-content wp-includes
 * I also have a bunch of files in the root directory which I’m now seeing appear
   to be the same filenames as those in my client’s “content” folder. It *is* possible
   that somehow I managed to copy the root files into the client’s content folder(
   there are no sub-folders in this content folder) without realizing it. So, what
   I’m asking is, am I also supposed to have a “content” folder (not wp-content 
   just “content”) in my WP root that I need to upload these files to? So far the
   site seems to be working ok, but I only have one page up so far. Some of the 
   files in the client’s content folder are:
 * index.php
    license.txt wp-app.php wp-atom.php
 * all the way on down to:
 * xmlrpc.php
 * It looks to me like a complete duplicate of what’s in the WP root. I dont want
   to delete them from the client’s content folder until I know if I need to upload
   them.
 * Thank you for your help.
    Deb

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 *  [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/oops-does-wp-use-a-folder-called-content/#post-739090)
 * Could you post the email addresses of your clients for us?
    That way competent
   WP web devs can contact them 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [MouseClicks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mouseclicks/)
 * (@mouseclicks)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/oops-does-wp-use-a-folder-called-content/#post-739092)
 * Sorry, I don’t understand. My client would have no idea what to do w/all of this.
   Do you want my email address?
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/oops-does-wp-use-a-folder-called-content/#post-739093)
 * Not to pile on, or feed a fire, but I think what root is suggesting is that you
   sound, umm, “incompetent, for the task you’re undertaking.
 * Asking on a forum, if it’s possibly “you did something” really makes you look
   confused, at best, and certainly wouldn’t instill a lot of confidence, if I were
   a prospective client of yours. How can we possibly know what you might have done?
   better yet, why would you allow us to make such observations? You are, by far
   a better judge and observer of your actions that anyone here. If you dont know,
   how the hell can we?
 * Your questions regrading files is understandable, I guess, but easily answered
   if you were to look inside the zip files of any WordPress archive. WordPress 
   never has used a folder named “content”.

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