Title: Feature Request: External HTML template
Last modified: August 20, 2016
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# Feature Request: External HTML template
* Anonymous User 92042
* (@anonymized-92042)
* [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-external-html-template/)
* Hi, thanks for a great plugin! I’m looking into doing some customization — mostly
colors and such, no structural changes — but I’m finding the GUI editor difficult
to work in, even in HTML mode.
* The plugin appears to load the `template-1.php` file on first load and save it
into the database. Once this happens, edits to the actual template file are never
seen and all further modifications must be done via the GUI editor.
* As a developer, I’d love to be able to edit my template in TextMate and save
it in version control along with my WP theme it goes with. Have you considered
adding support for loading the template from a file in the theme directory as
needed? This would allow us to keep the template code with the rest of our code,
make changes using our own preferred editor, and load it up only when email is
being sent.
* Thanks!
* [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-better-emails/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-better-emails/)
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* Plugin Author [Nicolas Lemoine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nlemoine/)
* (@nlemoine)
* [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-external-html-template/#post-3609889)
* Hi Kenn,
* I’m starting to work on a new and more ambitious version that will provide template
choosing/adding/editing.
I’m still thinking on how things could be handled but
I want to keep it as simple as possible so the average WordPress user (!= developper)
can do some little changes easily. I’ll see if I can also add a more “developper”
way to add templates.
* Thread Starter Anonymous User 92042
* (@anonymized-92042)
* [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-external-html-template/#post-3609890)
* Sounds good, thanks.
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* Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-external-html-template/#post-3609890)
* Status: not resolved