Problem accessing wp-load.php

I'm writing a standalone script for Wordpress so I can display things like the username on a page outside of Wordpress.

My method so far is to try to include or require wp-load.php in my script directory. I've tried

chdir ( ".." );
include "wp-load.php";

as well as absolute paths to the web root where Wordpress is located for both the chdir and the include. I don't get any errors but wp_get_current_user() always returns empty.

If I move my script up a level to the same folder with Wordpress it works fine. How can I include wp-load.php and keep all of the files in my subfolder?

EDIT: file structure

• public_html (wordpress is installed here so wp-load.php is also here)
  • myScript (directory)
    • script.php
    • This is where I try to use chdir ( ".." ) or include ( "../wp-load.php" ) without success

I'm writing a standalone script for Wordpress so I can display things like the username on a page outside of Wordpress.

My method so far is to try to include or require wp-load.php in my script directory. I've tried

chdir ( ".." );
include "wp-load.php";

as well as absolute paths to the web root where Wordpress is located for both the chdir and the include. I don't get any errors but wp_get_current_user() always returns empty.

If I move my script up a level to the same folder with Wordpress it works fine. How can I include wp-load.php and keep all of the files in my subfolder?

EDIT: file structure

• public_html (wordpress is installed here so wp-load.php is also here)
  • myScript (directory)
    • script.php
    • This is where I try to use chdir ( ".." ) or include ( "../wp-load.php" ) without success

• wp-load.php

Share Improve this question edited Dec 18, 2018 at 6:46 scottinthebooth asked Dec 18, 2018 at 6:05 scottintheboothscottinthebooth 3111 silver badge33 bronze badges 3

• and please tell me the where you exactly include the wp-load.php – user147874 Commented Dec 18, 2018 at 6:21
• did you got the result @scottinthebooth ? – Tejas Gajjar Commented Dec 18, 2018 at 11:35
• I was not able to get this to work. I ended up just converting the script to a full plugin which solved the problem (if I'd realized how simple that was I would have started that way) – scottinthebooth Commented Dec 19, 2018 at 23:10

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try this i hope this work.

$parse_uri = explode( 'wp-content', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] );    
require_once( $parse_uri[0] . 'wp-load.php' );

Use this to include

<?php include '../wp-load.php'; ?>

that will give you the wp-load.php file ../ is usually use for get path of last folder.

hope this helps you and also let me know the result.