[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #31348: The distribution contains too many files in the root directory

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#31348: The distribution contains too many files in the root directory
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 Reporter:  fulldecent   |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General      |    Version:  4.1
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
  Focuses:               |
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 Here are the list of files in the root directory:

 index.php
 license.txt
 readme.html
 wp-activate.php
 wp-admin/
 wp-blog-header.php
 wp-comments-post.php
 wp-config-sample.php
 wp-content/
 wp-cron.php
 wp-includes/
 wp-links-opml.php
 wp-load.php
 wp-login.php
 wp-mail.php
 wp-settings.php
 wp-signup.php
 wp-trackback.php
 xmlrpc.php

 Many people install Wordpress by putting these files directly in their
 webroot. This becomes cumbersome as this list of files expands with each
 release. It is cumbersome if, god forbid, we have other non-wordpress
 files to serve. Don't forget, webmasters also need to contend with
 .htaccess, favicons, these new apple-touch-icons and now IE10 has its own
 favicons and browser XML files.

 Here is what simplicity looks like:

 index.php
 license.txt
 readme.html
 wp-content/

 And wp-login.php becomes simple index.php?SOMETHING=wp-login

 Maybe we will never get there. But at a few of these top-level PHP files
 can be removed so that we are moving in the right direction.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/31348>
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