Title: [Plugin: Custom Post Template] Template Help
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Custom Post Template] Template Help

 *  [wp–fan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wp-fan-1/)
 * (@wp-fan-1)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-post-template-template-help/)
 * We all know that single.php is in the wp-content/themes/THEMENAME folder with
   THEMENAME being the theme you are using.
 * When we go to make post templates for this plugin, we have to put them in wp-
   content/themes/THEMENAME
 * **My question is how can I put extra templates that I make into a separate folder
   so that WordPress can find them? So something like single-EXTRA.php is in wp-
   content/themes/THEMENAME/NEWFOLDER**
 * I want to do this because my theme directory gets cluttered with all of the extra
   template files I have created.
 * Help would be much appreciated in this manner.
 * Thank you
    WP–Fan

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 *  Plugin Author [Simon Wheatley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonwheatley/)
 * (@simonwheatley)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-post-template-template-help/#post-1684063)
 * Unfortunately this isn’t possible with the current version of the plugin… I’m
   always happy for people to sponsor development of new features though! Feel free
   to [drop me a line](http://simonwheatley.co.uk/contact-me).
 *  Thread Starter [wp–fan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wp-fan-1/)
 * (@wp-fan-1)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-post-template-template-help/#post-1684376)
 * thanks for the reply!
 * i would sponsor to support your awesome work but my blog does not generate me
   $$$ to do so. hopefully it will be a feature in the future!!!
 *  [dotnature](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dotnature/)
 * (@dotnature)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-post-template-template-help/#post-1684400)
 * one way to do this is to use a child theme, it works fine with this plug-in, 
   just look at the docs for child themes, iot takes about 5 minutes to set up.
 * basically make a folder in your themes /whatever
 * add a style.css to it with the following tag at in the style header
 * Template: twentyten ( this is tthe name of your parent theme)
 * enable child theme in your “themes”
 * add any .php files to your new folder and the child wordpress looks in there 
   before it looks into the parent theme folder.
 * my child theme folder for this plug-in simply has:
 * style.css
    single-test.php single-test2.php

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 * Last reply from: [dotnature](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dotnature/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-post-template-template-help/#post-1684400)
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