apply_filters( "{$type}_template", string $template, string $type, string[] $templates )

Filters the path of the queried template by type.

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Description

The dynamic portion of the hook name, $type, refers to the filename — minus the file extension and any non-alphanumeric characters delimiting words — of the file to load.
This hook also applies to various types of files loaded as part of the Template Hierarchy.

Possible hook names include:

  • 404_template
  • archive_template
  • attachment_template
  • author_template
  • category_template
  • date_template
  • embed_template
  • frontpage_template
  • home_template
  • index_template
  • page_template
  • paged_template
  • privacypolicy_template
  • search_template
  • single_template
  • singular_template
  • tag_template
  • taxonomy_template

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Parameters

$template string
Path to the template. See locate_template() .
More Arguments from locate_template( ... $args ) Additional arguments passed to the template.
$type string
Sanitized filename without extension.
$templates string[]
A list of template candidates, in descending order of priority.

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More Information

If you need more granular control over the template selection and loading system of WordPress, consider using template_include instead.

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Source

File: wp-includes/template.php. View all references 

return apply_filters( "{$type}_template", $template, $type, $templates );

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Changelog

Changelog
Version Description
4.8.0 The $type and $templates parameters were added.
1.5.0 Introduced.

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User Contributed Notes

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    Contributed by alordiel —

    We can use this filter in case that we want to add and archive page for our custom taxonomy that we have created from a plugin. In this case the filter we will need is “taxonomy_template”.

    add_filter( "taxonomy_template", 'load_our_custom_tax_template');
function load_our_custom_tax_template ($tax_template) {
  if (is_tax('custom-tax-name')) {
    $tax_template = dirname(  __FILE__  ) . '/templates/custom-taxonomy-template.php';
  }
  return $tax_template;
}
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    Contributed by Steven Lin —

    Example Migrated from Codex:

    The example code will load the template file “post-type-template.php” located in your plugins folder for any posts or pages that have the type of ‘my_post_type‘ else uses default template.

    <?php
add_filter( 'single_template', 'get_custom_post_type_template' );

function get_custom_post_type_template( $single_template ) {
	global $post;

	if ( 'my_post_type' === $post->post_type ) {
		$single_template = dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/post-type-template.php';
	}

	return $single_template;
}
?>
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    Contributed by Steven Lin —

    Example Migrated from Codex:

    This example loads the template file single-{post_type}-{slug}.php (e.g. single-event-wordcamp.php) only if the file exists, otherwise loads default template.

    <?php
add_filter( 'single_template', 'add_postType_slug_template', 10, 1 );

function add_posttype_slug_template( $single_template ) {
	$object                            = get_queried_object();
	$single_posttype_postname_template = locate_template( "single-{$object->post_type}-{$object->post_name}.php" );

	if ( file_exists( $single_posttype_postname_template ) ) {
		return $single_posttype_postname_template;
	} else {
		return $single_template;
	}
}
?>
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    Contributed by Steven Lin —

    Example Migrated from Codex:

    This example loads a custom category template for categories 62, 65, and 59.

    add_filter( 'category_template', 'filter_category_template', 99 );

function filter_category_template( $template ) {

	 if ( is_category(array( 64,65,59 )  )  ) {
		$new_template = locate_template( array( 'category-template.php' ) );
		if ( '' != $new_template ) {
			return $new_template;
		}
	}

	return $template;
}
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    Contributed by Steven Lin —

    Example Migrated from Codex:

    The example below will load the template file “post-type-template.php” located in your plugins folder for any archive page that has the type of “my_post_type“; otherwise, uses default template.

    add_filter( 'archive_template', 'get_custom_post_type_template' );

function get_custom_post_type_template( $archive_template ) {
     global $post;

     if ( is_post_type_archive ( 'my_post_type' ) ) {
          $archive_template = dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/post-type-template.php';
     }
     return $archive_template;
}

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