The name of wp-includes folder is hardcoded in multiple places on WordPress core, as well as WPINC constant which isn’t conditional and can’t be changed. Renaming it would take creating and maintaining a fork of WordPress core, which is impractical. Your best bet is just keeping it out of front end, for example by redefining … Read more
Three steps: Create subdomain Copy files – Update wp-config.php Copy DB. Edit site_url and home fields in wp_options. You should definitely add a no crawl in robots.txt Here is another SO question that describes how to do that.
I actually use free online development environments to test, such as c9. It allows very quick installation and setup of wordpress. You can easily try different plugins/codes without endangering your files. Moreover, if you mess any thing up you can always delete that installation and create a new one. Another great feature is the cloning … Read more
Short Answer Yes. Theoretically any site can be built on top of WordPress. Long Answer You are going to need a lot of modifications to the standard WordPress theme. But not to fret I have assembled a list of some of the things that you would need to do to get your feet wet. Add … Read more
I guess your folders are linked to different domains or subdomains. I usually use a domain and a subdomain (www.domain.com and dev.domain.com, for example) to let me work in the pre-production site (not indexed by search engines, this is quite important to avoid duplicated contents and SEO problems) before applying changes to the final one. … Read more