Due to the open source nature of WordPress, everyone knows where plugins and files are stored in your site. Therefore, the process of hacking or spamming your site becomes easier for potential attackers. As a solution, we can move plugin and upload directories to a different path using the config file, to increase the difficulty of finding paths to attack.
Let's add more configurations to change the default location of these directories:
define( 'WP_PLUGIN_DIR', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/example.com/modules/' ); define( 'WP_PLUGIN_URL', 'http://localhost/ example.com /modules/'); define( 'UPLOADS', 'modules/media' );
The first two lines move the plugin directory from wp-content/plugins to the ...
