Custom Post Type Templates from Plugin Folder?

Question

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(); ?

Answer 1

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 $wp_query, $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;
}