Meaning, if I install WordPress in the /wp folder… would any files in the main root of the domain folder “/” be accessed, or any other folder outside of the /wp folder for that matter? Meaning, are all of the WordPress files continuously self-contained to just the install folder (/wp in my case) and it’s subfolders?
(Thus, if this is true, to remove WordPress, can we just delete the install folder…and vice-versa, if we install into a particular folder, we know no other files/folder would be affected?)
Thank you!
No, WordPress does not depend on any files outside of the WordPress root directory, under normal circumstances.
There are ways to setup WordPress so you have dependencies outside of the WordPress directory. For example, you can specify alternate paths for the
wp-contentanduploadsdirectory.It’s also fairly common to update the
wp-config.phpfile to reference another file, outside of your web root, that contains all of your database credentials.Out of the box however WordPress is completely self contained.