alternative locations for templates

[andytc]

http://wp-event-organiser.com/blog/tutorial/adding-alternative-locations-for-templates/

Can anyone help me with the alternate template locations code ?

add_filter( 'eventorganiser_template_stack', 'my_custom_events_template_directory' );
 function my_custom_events_template_directory( $template_stack ){
     array_unshift( $template_stack, plugin_dir_path**( __FILE__ )** );
     return $template_stack;
 }

What should be entered at ( FILE ) ?

I see this shown after the main code , do i replace the code above with this and an use an absolute path?

add_filter( 'eventorganiser_template_stack', 'my_custom_events_template_directory' );
 function my_custom_events_template_directory( $template_stack ){
     array_unshift( $template_stack, 'absolute/path/to/directory/containing/templates/' );
     return $template_stack;
 }

bit confused as it’s not working for me.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Andy,

__FILE__ is magic constant which is the full path and filename of the current file. The plugin_dir_path() function just returns the parent directory of that path.

So the second argument should be the absolute path (with a trailing slash) pointing to the desired directory. So assuming the absolute path is correct, then the above should work. You might want to add archive-event.php to that directory and check that file_exists( $absolutepath . 'archive-event.php' ) returns true.

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