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Genesis Page Templates in a subdirectory

October 17, 2014 JiveDig 2 Comments

A really organized life

I’m currently building a custom theme/site that has LOTS of page templates. I find that to be the easiest way to make really intricate pages to my custom sites. For more info on how to create a page template, Carrie Dils already has a nice tutorial here.

My issue was that I had so many page templates that it was making my custom child theme feel really bloated and disorganized. I tweeted about how I wished I could put my page templates in a subdirectory in my theme and Justin Sainton came to the rescue!

@JiveDig you can.

— Justin Sainton (@JS_Zao) October 17, 2014

He went on to link to Nacin’s post about it’s addition to WP core. I had tried other methods before, but I never used the directory name of /page-templates/. How simple is that?!?!?!

Name your subdirectory correctly!

So the answer to the question is simple…

Create a directory in your Genesis child theme called /page-templates/ or just /templates/ and put all your page templates in there!

I feel so organized.

Thanks to Justin and Nacin!

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Comments

  1. Paal Joachim Romdahl says

    February 5, 2015 at 6:01 pm

    Yeah I too found Nacin’s post some time ago. It sure makes for less clutter having a folder to place the page templates into.

    Perhaps you could post some of your page templates showing the result and code?

    Have a great day!

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    • JiveDig says

      February 6, 2015 at 8:51 am

      Most of my templates are site specific.. but I hope to share some more general stuff in the future. Thanks for checking it out though!

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