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This is actually my first question here, so hello to everybody in this community!

I have developed a theme with a custom post type and a template (lets call it "my_template.php") that shows posts of this custom post type in an archive-like fashion.

What I'm trying to achieve is to make a permalink in the navigation of the site that goes to a specific template (like "my_template.php") and ignoring the wp template hierarchy.

How could one do that?

Note: I've already checked out This answer, but that one didn't really help and provided only a workaround.

Thanks!

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What do you mean by "ignoring the wp template hierarchy"? – s_ha_dum Feb 22 at 22:02
What I mean by that is usually if you are creating a custom post type, wordpress follows the template hierarchy e.g. it looks first for single-{custom-post-name}.php, then archive-{custom-post-name} etc and then at the end it falls back to index.php . What I wanted to achieve is avoiding that altogether and just give my custom post type a template to which I could refer to via a permalink. – nairam Feb 23 at 14:57

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You could see if a custom page template fits your needs. Create a Page with the desired permalink, then set its page template to "my_template.php", and you're good!

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That worked perfectly! Great idea! Thanks! – nairam Feb 23 at 14:46

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