Title: Creating Templates
Last modified: November 21, 2019

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# Creating Templates

 *  Resolved [wilcochris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wilcochris/)
 * (@wilcochris)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-templates-2/)
 * I am trying to create a new template to match that of my site and I am struggling.
 * I created the following folder structure in my child theme
 * \vlp-templates\link
 * and then copied the simple template into it and made some changes but the template
   I created is not available in the drop down.
 * What do I need to do to solve this?
 * Thanks. Great plugin by the way.

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 *  Plugin Author [Brecht](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brechtvds/)
 * (@brechtvds)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-templates-2/#post-12162557)
 * You have a folder like this in your child theme now?
    `/vlp-templates/link/your-
   template/`
 * What files are in there? Both a `your-template.css` and `your-template.php` file?
 * Make sure the name of the folder matches the name of the files exactly.
 *  Thread Starter [wilcochris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wilcochris/)
 * (@wilcochris)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-templates-2/#post-12163226)
 * Hi Brecht, thanks for the quick reply.
 * That’s exactly what I have set up in my child theme.
 *  Plugin Author [Brecht](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brechtvds/)
 * (@brechtvds)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-templates-2/#post-12163279)
 * Could you send some screenshots of how you have things set up exactly to [support@bootstrapped.ventures](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-templates-2/support@bootstrapped.ventures?output_format=md)
 *  Plugin Author [Brecht](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brechtvds/)
 * (@brechtvds)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-templates-2/#post-12164092)
 * In case anyone else ends up here with a similar problem: in this case it ended
   up being a problem with the child theme not actually getting loaded correctly(
   but rather the parent theme).

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 * Last reply from: [Brecht](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brechtvds/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-templates-2/#post-12164092)
 * Status: resolved