[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #20509: Theme idea - generic.php

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#20509: Theme idea - generic.php
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 Reporter:  johnjamesjacoby  |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Themes           |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  dev-feedback     |
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Comment (by chrisclayton):

 Replying to [comment:17 johnbillion]:
 > It might be nice if plugins could register the path to their bundled
 generic.php as a fallback file, that way they won't need to mess around
 with hooking into `template_include` and checking for the existance of
 generic.php in the theme.
 >

 What about a series of fall backs? all other templates have a heirarchy,
 why leave generic.php out?

 Something like:
 - theme/generic-plugin.php (eg. generic-bbpress.php will tell bbpress to
 use this special template)
 - theme/generic.php (basic generic template for other plugins)
 - the-plugin/generic.php (the plugin that is trying to use generic.php.
 eg. plugins/bbpress/generic.php)
 - theme/index.php (If all else fails, let's throw it inside index.php
 instead of leaving users with nothing)
 etc.

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