Title: wp-content hardcoded
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# wp-content hardcoded

 *  Resolved [Destillator](https://wordpress.org/support/users/destillator/)
 * (@destillator)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-content-hardcoded/)
 * Hi,
 * I saw that the code refers to the wp-content directory in multiple places. Plugins
   like Better WP Security advise to rename wp-content into something else, but 
   this breaks the plugin, obviously. Can this be fixed in a future release? That
   would be great.
 * Thanks in advance!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cleanerpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cleanerpress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Arevico](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arevico/)
 * (@arevico)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-content-hardcoded/#post-3606307)
 * Hi,
 * We do not think that renaming ‘wp-content’ is a good idea. The renamed path will
   get presented to a potential adversary anyways (even if renamed). Uploads, plugin
   css and javascript files are loaded from it.
 * Renaming the ‘wp-admin’-folder is recommended (if there if no publicly facing
   link to that folder on your website. The pugin does not contain hardcoded wp-
   admin references, only wp-content references.
 *  [hifistyle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hifistyle/)
 * (@hifistyle)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-content-hardcoded/#post-3606338)
 * Yup,
    I’ve renamed my wp_content and now have caused problems. Luckily I did 
   backup. Anyone know if you just run the backup to fix?

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-content-hardcoded/#post-3606338)
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