id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
17597,register theme directory() not working for themes outside WP_CONTENT_DIR,tliebig,nacin,"I'm trying to add an additional theme directory that lives outside WP_CONTENT_DIR.

To do so, I've added
{{{global $wp_theme_directories; $wp_theme_directories[] = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/wp-content/themes';}}} 
to my wp-config.php.

The problem: Although WordPress correctly finds the themes within my custom theme folder, it reports them to be broken as soon as I activate them. From my investigations, this seems to be an issue with get_theme_root() putting the WP_CONTENT_DIR before the path although it should not do so when I give it the full file system path for my own theme directory (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_theme_directory). 

Completely moving /wp-content/ via WP_CONTENT_DIR constant is not an option since that would require me to store the default theme and the language files outside the /wordpress structure, which I'm trying to avoid. My goal ist to basically trying to remodel the strict separation between application/user data that the mac file system does: store application under /apps, and user data (including custom settings) under /home. This approach would allow to update WordPress as easily as just replacing the /wordpress-folder completely with the unzipped files from a freshly downloaded wordpress package without having to worry about /wp-content.

My final desired structure would be as such:
{{{
/
/wordpress              (the virgin WordPress system directory as downloaded)
/wp-config.php          (my custom wp-config.php holding my settings)
/wp-content/plugins     (folder holding the plugins that I've installed)[1]
/wp-content/themes      (folder holding the themes that I've installed)[2]
/uploads                (folder holding the user's uploads)
}}}


[1] would be great if it could be merged with the system plugins from /wordpress/wp-content/plugins, but for now it's okay if I just define the WP_PLUGIN_URL constant

[2] Expected to merge with /wordpress/wp-content/themes, but not working: themes within this folder are shown in the backend, but reported to be broken when I try to activate them. __This is where register_theme_directory() does not work as advertised.__",defect (bug),closed,normal,3.4,Themes,3.1.3,normal,fixed,,nacin