[Jan B]

Yes i think using composer with wordpress is not very common at the moment but in my oppinion composer in general is rising.

I found a solution for me which suit us both.

I put a modified wp-load.php in my root so that I can use your solution.

It would be awesome if you could include your solution in an upcoming release of the theme 🙂

[Jan B]

I have put WP in a subfolder and only wp-config.php and index.php are stored on root level. The code above detects the root level. But in my case wp-load.php is not present in there but in /cms/wp-load.php. For more information about this folder structure please read Using Composer with WordPress.

The notice is right since wp-load.php does not check if ABSPATH is already defined. Usually wp first loads wp-load and then wp-config. I cannot think of any way to prevent this notice in my setting.

In general we could look for wp-load.php in the root and only if it is not present, we include wp-config.php.

This code would look like this:

<?php
if (!function_exists('sf_wp_path')) {
    function sf_wp_path()
    {
        $wp_path = "";
        if (strstr($_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"], "/wp-content/")) {
            $wp_path = preg_replace("/\/wp-content\/.*/", "", $_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]);
        } else {
            $wp_path = preg_replace("/\/[^\/]+?\/themes\/.*/", "", $_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]);
        }

        if (strpos($wp_path, 'interface.php') !== FALSE) {
            $absolute_path = __FILE__;
            $file_path = explode('wp-content', $absolute_path);
            $wp_path = $file_path[0];
        }

        return $wp_path;
    }
}
if(file_exists(sf_wp_path() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'wp-load.php')){
    require_once(sf_wp_path() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'wp-load.php');
}else{
    //first load wp-config to get the ABSPATH
    require_once(sf_wp_path() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'wp-config.php');
    //Do the WP bootstrap
    require_once(ABSPATH . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'wp-load.php');
}

[Jan B]

Hi Ed,

this works with a little modification. WordPress allows it to put the whole WP core stuff in a subdirectory. Only the index.php and wp-config.php have to be on the root level. In this case – which it is in my case – there is no wp-load.php in the root. I propose to first require_once wp-config.php since this file has to be in the root in all cases. When wp-config.php is loaded you have access to the ABSPATH and thus you know the location of wp-load.php.

My working code looks like this:

<?php
if (!function_exists('sf_wp_path')) {
    function sf_wp_path()
    {
        $wp_path = "";
        if (strstr($_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"], "/wp-content/")) {
            $wp_path = preg_replace("/\/wp-content\/.*/", "", $_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]);
        } else {
            $wp_path = preg_replace("/\/[^\/]+?\/themes\/.*/", "", $_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]);
        }

        if (strpos($wp_path, 'interface.php') !== FALSE) {
            $absolute_path = __FILE__;
            $file_path = explode('wp-content', $absolute_path);
            $wp_path = $file_path[0];
        }

        return $wp_path;
    }
}
//first load wp-config to get the ABSPATH
require_once(sf_wp_path() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'wp-config.php');
//Do the WP bootstrap
require_once(ABSPATH . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'wp-load.php');

[Jan B]

Hi Ed,

I actually use Neighborhood, but I guess this error is Theme-independent.

I use Neighborhood V.1.66 on WP 3.8.1.

[Jan B]

Hi Melanie,

I tried to put all the files you mentioned (except functions.php) in my child theme but it changed nothing.

Then I tried to include the swift-framework.php of my child theme in my child theme’s functions.php but then I got problems with includes etc

Warning: include(SF_FRAMEWORK_PATH/page-builder/sf-page-builder.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /content/themes/wassershop/includes/swift-framework/swift-framework.php on line 15

Warning: include(SF_FRAMEWORK_PATH/page-builder/sf-page-builder.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /content/themes/wassershop/includes/swift-framework/swift-framework.php on line 15

[...]

So maybe I need another solution?

[Jan B]

Hi Melanie,
thanks for your reply!

I created the files as you said, but still the files from the parent theme are used.

My Child theme looks basically like this:

|-- functions.php
|-- includes
|   |-- swift-framework
|       |-- sf-shortcodes
|           |-- config.php
|           |-- interface.php
|-- language
|   |-- de_DE.mo
|   |-- de_DE.po
|-- screenshot.png
|-- style.css

4 directories, 7 files

[Jan B]

I wrote my own config.php and now it works. My only issue is now: How can I get this into my child theme so that I do not have to modify the main theme?

<?php
    $full_path = dirname(__FILE__);
    $path_fragments = explode(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $full_path);
    $theme_key = array_search('neighborhood', $path_fragments);
    $wp_content_level = $path_fragments[($theme_key - 2)]; //usually the wp-base is two levels below the theme folder
    $file_path = explode($wp_content_level, $full_path);
    $wp_path = $file_path[0];
    
    include_once($wp_path . 'wp-config.php');
    
    require_once(ABSPATH . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'wp-load.php');
?>

[Jan B]

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