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1. onethousandseas
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   If I want to make extra custom templates for my theme, is it possible to put it in a subdirectory within the theme directory to reference it?

   So if the code at the top of a custom page were this:

   <?php
   /*
   Template Name: Snarfer
   */
   ?>

   how would I reference that if I were to put snarfer.php inside a directory named "extra-templates"?

2. apljdi
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You can easily put .php files in subdirectories and call them using get_bloginfo('template_url').'/subdirectory/somefile.php'. I don't know if WP will recognize a template file if you put it in a subdirectory. Have you tried that?

3. onethousandseas
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Yep, I put it inside a subdir, but it didn't work when I simply tried to call it through the control panel.

4. kvcrawford
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I wish it were possible to put custom page templates in a subdirectory, and still choose them in the "Template" <select> box from "Edit Pages" in the admin panel. It would keep the template's folder a lot cleaner when using a lot of custom page templates.

   It would also be nice if you could keep your stylesheet(s) in their own "./css/" directory.

5. metal450
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Re: kvcrawford - I couldn't agree more...my theme directory is a mess, and I've resorted to just trying to name everything to keep them together (i.e. pg_xx.php so all my custom page templates get alphabetized next to each other, etc)

6. metal450
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   A simple solution this is to use the template_redirect hook, and call a function in which you to load your templates from wherever you want, i.e.

   add_action('template_redirect', 'template_overrides');
   function template_overrides()
   {
       if( is_page('potd') ):
          include(HOMEPATH . '/potd_/potd.php');
          exit;
   
       //fallthrough to default
       endif;
   }

   :)

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