[wp-hackers] User folders for themes, plug-ins

[Steve Lewis]

On 1/18/07, Brian Layman <Brian at thecodecave.com> wrote:
>
> A less intrusive solution might be more compatible.  Rename the wp-content
> directory, in the distribution tarball, to wp-std-content.  Then during
> the
> install/upgrade process, the files in the wp-content-std directory are
> iteratively copied into the wp-content directory.  WordPress would make no
> other references to wp-std-content.


And this requires WordPress to have write permissions to the filesystem.
That is currently not the case and I believe it would gain us very little
over the current system.

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SteveL