Template sub-folders

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1

Is it still impossible to group templates into subfolders? At least without major hacks?

2

No, organizing templates in folders is not possible, unless you register them in a plugin.

For example, create a file tpl.php in /site/plugins/tpl with the following content:

<?php
$kirby->set('template',     'blog',     kirby()->roots()->templates() . '/blog/blog.php');

And so on. This would allow you to store your blog template in a blog subfolder in /site/templates/-

3

Damn, was afraid of that. Have to try a file prefix naming.

4

Do you have many page types that request different templates? Big sites I’ve worked on use 20-30, that’s still a manageable amount of files to have in site/templates.

If you use PHP files for parts of your pages, components, etc., you can use snippets (in site/snippets), or you can put them in arbitrary subfolders in your template folder (e.g. site/templates/parts, site/templates/components) and include them.

5

It’s less about total numbers of templates and more about my own neurotic tendencies. I get pretty “retentive” about stupid stuff like that.

6

Is this still not possible? Some info on that would be cool! Thanks

7

Instead of putting templates into subfolders, you can register them in a plugin, which would give you the option to manage them in separate folders (within the plugin).

8

Aaah thank you so much! for some reason I didn’t see that when I looked at Templates…
Thanks!

9

How does this work? I have created a plugin and using this code. But unfortunately it doesn’t load the template in the subfolder.

10

Please describe the steps you did in detail. Thanks.

11

I created a plugin with an index.php and the content:

<?php
Kirby::plugin('user/templates-folder', [
    'templates' => [
        'user' => __DIR__ . '/templates/user/user.php'
    ]
]);
12

And where did you put user.php

13

I put user.php in the /user subfolder from /templates.

14

But you need to put it into your plugin folder, not the /site/templates folder.