Title: Adding Templates
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Adding Templates

 *  [titan21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/titan21/)
 * (@titan21)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-templates/)
 * I am creating a plugin and have a templated based at /my-plugin/templates/mytemplate.
   php. Is there a way to make this available to wordpress without having to copy
   this to the theme directory?

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 *  [Peter Baylies](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pbaylies/)
 * (@pbaylies)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-templates/#post-2362006)
 * As of 3.0, it’s possible to use the template_include filter for this. Do a check
   in your hooked function to see if you think your template should be used, and
   if so, return the appropriate path to your template; otherwise, return the argument
   you were passed by WordPress.
 *  Thread Starter [titan21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/titan21/)
 * (@titan21)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-templates/#post-2362049)
 * Thanks pbaylies – i tried this and it worked however what I wanted is that the
   template appear in the list of available templates in the page screen in admin?
   Is there a way to do this?

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 * In: [Hacks](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/hacks/)
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