Adding Subdirectories to Load Path

Question

Rather than individually specifing each subdirectory in my plugins directory I want to be able to automatically load them, to that end I included the following to my .emacs file

Answer 1

You're so close...

(let ((default-directory "~/.emacs.d/plugins/"))
  (normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path))

normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path works off the current directory, which you can set via the variable default-directory - not base like you tried.