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role="main"> <header class="page-header"> <h1 class="page-title">Tag Archives: <span>WP_Theme</span></h1> </header> <article id="post-4003" class="post-4003 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry tag-page-templates tag-wordpress tag-wordpress-3-4 tag-wp_theme"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130115230838/http://nacin.com/2012/03/29/page-templates-in-subdirectories-new-in-wordpress-3-4/" title="Permalink to Page templates in subdirectories, new in WordPress聽3.4" rel="bookmark">Page templates in subdirectories, new in WordPress 3.4</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="sep">Posted on </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130115230838/http://nacin.com/2012/03/29/page-templates-in-subdirectories-new-in-wordpress-3-4/" title="12:33 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2012-03-29T12:33:43+00:00">March 29, 2012</time></a><span class="by-author"> <span class="sep"> by </span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130115230838/http://nacin.com/author/nacin/" title="View all posts by Andrew Nacin" rel="author">Andrew Nacin</a></span></span> </div> <div class="comments-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130115230838/http://nacin.com/2012/03/29/page-templates-in-subdirectories-new-in-wordpress-3-4/#comments" title="Comment on Page templates in subdirectories, new in WordPress聽3.4">83</a> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>In WordPress 3.4, themes can now <strong>place page templates inside a subdirectory of their theme</strong>.</p> <p>I’ve spent much of the 3.4 development cycle <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130115230838/http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/20103">working on a new API</a> called WP_Theme. But it’s not something you’ll find in the release announcement.</p> <p>That’s because the vast majority of plugin and theme developers will never use it, nor should they. It’s an under-the-hood enhancement that was aimed at strengthening our internals, and it enabled us to improve quite a bit. For example, we were able to find huge performance improvements in both memory and speed. And it enhances the ability to localize themes. (More on these changes when I start working on the 3.4 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130115230838/http://nacin.com/tag/field-guide/">field guide</a>.)</p> <p>It feels nice to be working with a modern, well-written API, even if I’m the only one using it. That’s okay, because <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130115230838/http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/20318">look how easy it was</a> to add support for page templates in a subdirectory. This is just the beginning.</p> <p>Child themes can override these templates the same as before — the child theme will just need to create the same directory structure to do it. (So, /page-templates/one-column.php needs to be overridden with /page-templates/one-column.php, not /one-column.php.) And yes, we’re only looking one level down.</p> <p><strong>Updated… Caution:</strong> Renaming a page template — and that includes moving all of top-level page templates into a directory — will unassign that page template for all pages currently using it. 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