[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #41362: Make locate_template() filterable to change the template locations

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#41362: Make locate_template() filterable to change the template locations
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 Reporter:  kylejennings83  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Themes          |     Version:  4.8
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |     Focuses:  template
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Comment (by jarednova):

 @dingo_bastard I second @kylejennings83 suggestions and hope you'll
 consider his patch. I totally understand your recommendation about
 handling CPTs in a plugin. My experience with clients is actually the
 opposite though — they want everything in one clean place (the theme
 directory) that represents the architecture and style for the site. In a
 plugins directory, there's often confusion about what "should" be
 activated (especially after an over-excited intern goes through and
 installs a hundred plugins). Regardless, we can all argue convincingly why
 you'd be (crazy/correct) to put things like that in a (plugin/theme)
 depending on the situation.

 Something I've always loved about WordPress is there's no right way to
 "use" it — yes people have built blogs, but they've also built movie
 rating sites, cooking sites, (I think even the first versions of OpenTable
 were built on a hacked-together WP install?) That's why 25% of the
 internet is powered by it.

 I wish this same openness applied to architecture. While WP wasn't
 designed to be MVC in 2003; it *is* an MVC app. How do I know? Tens of
 thousands of devs use it as an MVC app every day! (through Timber and
 others like it). I hope the Core team will consider this (and patches)
 like that to make it more conducive to MVC-style development

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