Easiest way to hide Wordpress Subdirectory Folder without moving a Single File

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These steps assume you have wordpress already installed in a subdirectory folder.

There seems to be many methods on the web, and sure they work, but we all want the easier way always. Iframes? Really not a good way to go. Htaccess files? Messy.

We want to allow visitors to view your blog directly at http://example.com, not http://example.com/subfolder/

What we can do are these simple steps:
1. Copy your index.php file from your blog's folder to the root directory of your site
2. In the new copied file in your root directory, change the line require('./wp-blog-header.php');  to  require('./subfolder/wp-blog-header.php');
3. Then, log into your wordpress admin panel

Settings -> General

4. Keep the Wordpress address pointing to your subdirectory, but we want to change Site address to just http://example.com
5. Lastly, we load up with our new address at http://example.com and check through just to make sure everything still works just fine. Remember to change all references with hard links in your site.

You are all set. Go figure.