Custom Template Deleted on Update

This was the inspiration for one of my pull requests: Enable users to specify a custom template dir

You can also store templates in your theme directory. Here’s a comment from the code: “Look in yourtheme/slug-name.php and yourtheme/download-monitor/slug-name.php”. This isn’t really a viable option for me since my theme wipes out the entire theme directory on update.

@barry Kooij In that KB article, it might be worthwhile to mention users look into child themes, so that download templates stored in a theme subdirectory don’t get wiped out when the theme updates itself.