Recommend using htaccess to take care of SSL redirects as needed. Will prevent ‘mixed content’ errors. I don’t think WP does any redirects, other than to get the content. If your settings have non-SSL, that’s what people will get. Using htaccess will prevent problems.
I needed the same thing – a ‘landing’ page at the root site that was custom-built (via PHP), but then WordPress-based pages elsewhere. I did it with the htaccess file for the site: # For example.com root, set landing.php as the default page RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^$ /landing.php [L] This will redirect www.example.com … Read more
Have you considered to create a symlink from your document root (wordpress) directory to the directories in upper levels? You’ll need to uncheck the “Restrict the ability to follow symbolic links” checkbox in Plesk Hosting & DNS > Apache & Nginx Settings for that to work.
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The stupidest and fastest way, if you have a source code backup, delete all the previous files and re-upload the backup file.
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