This is a simple WordPress plugin for Flywheel Cloud sites to automatically fix (careless) code in themes and plugins that assumes the wp-load.php file will be in the site root when it actually is located elsewhere.
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Download the plugin zip file from here (or the dropdown menu on this plugin's GitHub repo)
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Navigate to your site's plugin page in wp-admin
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Click "add new," then "upload plugin." Upload the plugin .zip file and activate it.
The plugin works by adding a "fake" wp-load.php file to the site root on activation. This file loads wp-config.php from the site root, then uses ABSPATH to require (once) the real wp-load.php file. That way, trying to include or load wp-load.php from the site root will be exactly the same as loading it in from the correct server path.
The plugin also removes the fake wp-load.php file on deactivation and uninstallation, and will deactivate itself if it detects it is running on a non-Flywheel Cloud site.
The plugin is only intended for Flywheel Cloud sites, but with slight modification to the below conditional, it could work on any platform where the wp-load.php file is located somewhere other than the site root (and where the ABSPATH constant points to that same directory):
if ( !defined( 'FLYWHEEL_DEFAULT_PROTOCOL' ) || !file_exists( $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/.wordpress/wp-load.php' ) ) {
//Plugin deactivation code here
}