"authors.php" is not a *page* template. Looking at <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php?rev=20318#L990">where this change takes place in core</a>, it appears that it applies *specifically* to custom templates for static pages:<div>
<br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div>$page_templates = array();</div><div><br></div><div>$files = (array) self::scandir( $this->get_stylesheet_directory(), 'php', 1 );</div>
<div><br></div><div>foreach ( $files['php'] as $file => $full_path ) {</div><div> $headers = get_file_data( $full_path, array( 'Template Name' => 'Template Name' ) );</div><div> <b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0000"> if ( empty( $headers['Template Name'] ) )</font></b></div>
<div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0000"> continue;</font></b></div><div> $page_templates[ $file ] = $this->translate_header( 'Template Name', $headers['Template Name'] );</div>
<div>}</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>But I could be wrong. :)</div><div><br></div><div>Chip</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Angelo Bertolli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:angelo@bertolli.org">angelo@bertolli.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 03/29/2012 12:43 PM, Doug Stewart wrote:<br>
> <a href="http://nacin.com/2012/03/29/page-templates-in-subdirectories-new-in-wordpress-3-4/" target="_blank">http://nacin.com/2012/03/29/page-templates-in-subdirectories-new-in-wordpress-3-4/</a><br>
><br>
> <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/20318" target="_blank">http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/20318</a><br>
><br>
> Organizational BOOM.<br>
<br>
</div>Does this apply to only alternate page templates, or does it also apply<br>
to canonical pages (e.g. authors.php) ?<br>
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