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Move your WordPress theme's templates into a subdirectory

Building on our (mostly unnecessary) add_filters() function to attach a callback to multiple hooks at once, we can adjust how WP's template hierarchy works. Yes, page-specific templates could already go in a `page-templates` directory, but this hook lets all of your templates go into a directory of your choosing.

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