Is there a way to have WordPress autodetect page templates in the page-templates directory and any sub-folders?

You should be able to do this with the theme_templates filter (see the get_page_templates() function). What you need is a function that walks through the sub-directories and returns all the page templates. Then you hook it into that filter. You could create a function based on get_post_templates(), replacing the call to get_files() with a function … Read more

the_author() str_replace error

If you want to display the author’s name outside the loop, you must use the following code snippet. First answer: Your definite answer The code below first takes the ID of the author of the post. Then it displays the author name using the ID global $post; $get_AuthorId = $post->post_author; $getUser_name = get_userdata($get_AuthorId); echo $post_author … Read more