Custom php file in root folder

June 16, 20233 Views

So, I have a custom php file in my wordpress root folder.

I have a link in frontend "example.com/custom.php" that I would like to access.

How would I include this custom php in root folder in function.php so that it can be recognized by other wordpress function?

Thanks

Post Views: 3

1 comment

Anonymous says:

June 16, 2023 at 3:55 pm
Add this line in your themes functions.php:
```
include(ABSPATH . 'custom.php');
```
Explanation:

Your wp-config.php should contain the following code (near the bottom of the page):
```
/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
    define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');
```
They are saving the path to the wordpress installation to ABSPATH.

It will be something like “/var/www/foo/” or similar. So you can concat the ABSPATH with path to your file. If for example, your php file is located inside some folder like this “example.com/somefolder/custom.php” you would use
```
include(ABSPATH . 'somefolder/custom.php');
```
Hope this helps!

Comments are closed.