Title: Custom Template Not Loading
Last modified: November 24, 2019

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# Custom Template Not Loading

 *  Resolved [Benbodhi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benbodhi/)
 * (@benbodhi)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-template-not-loading/)
 * Hi there,
 * I have followed the intructions to create a cusotm template, however, it does
   not override.
 * For example, I copied the `wppic-template-plugin-wordpress.php` template and 
   renamed the last part from `wordpress` to `repo` so it is `wppic-template-plugin-
   repo.php`, then placed it into my child theme in a directory called `wppic-templates`.
 * I then tried the following shortcodes in the page with no luck:
 * `[wp-pic slug="svg-support" layout="repo" scheme="" align="" margin="" containerid
   ="" ajax=""]`
 * `[wp-pic slug="svg-support" layout="repo"]`
 * No matter what I do, it looks like it’s loading one of the default templates 
   from the plugin.
 * Not sure what’s going wrong… I had a quick dig in your plugin, but figured I’d
   ask here too.
 * Thanks in advance for your help!

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 *  Thread Starter [Benbodhi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benbodhi/)
 * (@benbodhi)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-template-not-loading/#post-12168874)
 * Nevermind, I dug through the plugin and found the calls, threw in some hints 
   to see what was loading or not… I found that I hadn’t activated the theme I was
   putting the templates in (smh).
 * So yeah, it totally works fine when you activate the theme you’re developing 
   the template in 😉
 *  Plugin Author [Brice Capobianco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brikou/)
 * (@brikou)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-template-not-loading/#post-12168901)
 * Hi,
    Good to hear 🙂 Please share your work and leave a review if you enjoy the
   plugin. Cheers,

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-template-not-loading/#post-12168901)
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