Title: Plugin custom post type single.php template
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Plugin custom post type single.php template

 *  [detati_sean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/detati_sean/)
 * (@detati_sean)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-post-type-singlephp-template/)
 * I created a custom plugin which creates its own custom post type. For this post
   type I would like to create a single-{custom-post-type}.php template file within
   the actually plugin directory and not in the themes main directory. Is it possible
   to run a hook which will look for the template file within the plugin directory
   before looking inside the theme directory?

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 * [custom post type](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-post-type/)
 * [directory structure](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/directory-structure/)

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 * Last reply from: [detati_sean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/detati_sean/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-post-type-singlephp-template/)
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