Custom Post Type Templates from Plugin Folder?

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I’d like to offer my custom post type as a Plugin, so that people can use it without touching their theme folder. But custom post type templates — such as single-movies.php — reside in the theme folder. Is there a way to get WP to check for a single-movies.php in the plugin’s folder? Hooking a function into the Filer Hierarchy? Or get_template_directory(); ?

 

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You can use single_template filter hook.

/* Filter the single_template with our custom function*/
add_filter('single_template', 'my_custom_template');

function my_custom_template($single) {

    global $post;

    /* Checks for single template by post type */
    if ( $post->post_type == 'POST TYPE NAME' ) {
        if ( file_exists( PLUGIN_PATH . '/Custom_File.php' ) ) {
            return PLUGIN_PATH . '/Custom_File.php';
        }
    }

    return $single;

}

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