Title: Custom Post Type Templates from Plugin Folder?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Custom Post Type Templates from Plugin Folder?

 *  [nathanbweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nathanbweb/)
 * (@nathanbweb)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-templates-from-plugin-folder/)
 * I’d like to offer my custom post type as a Plugin, so that people can use it 
   without touching their theme folder. But custom post type templates — such as
   single-movies.php — reside in the theme folder. Is there a way to get WP to check
   for a single-movies.php in the plugin’s folder? Hooking a function into the Filer
   Hierarchy?
    ([http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy#Filter_Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy#Filter_Hierarchy))
   Or <?php get_template_directory(); ?

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 *  Thread Starter [nathanbweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nathanbweb/)
 * (@nathanbweb)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-templates-from-plugin-folder/#post-2083704)
 * answered at [bit.ly/wpstex-17385](http://bit.ly/wpstex-17385)

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