I am creating a plugin where i have created a custom post type smart-event and I want to serve the single posts under this category via a single page.That's why I have created a single post page named : `single-event.php` directly into plugin folder -like- `event > single-event.php` And I am using this function to load the single page -- function myevent($template) { if ('event' == get_post_type(get_queried_object_id()) && !$template) { $template = dirname(__FILE__) . '/single-event.php'; } return $template; } add_action( 'single_template', 'myevent')); But the single post is being shown in theme single.php page not in the page i have created. > Below is my CPT register code and i have flush the rewrite mode in permalink settings. function eventCPT(){ $labels = array( 'name' => esc_html__( 'Events', 'event' ), 'singular_name' => esc_html__( 'Event', 'event' ), 'menu_name' => esc_html__( 'Event', 'event' ), 'name_admin_bar' => esc_html__( 'Event', 'event' ), 'add_new' => esc_html__( 'Add New Event', 'event' ), 'add_new_item' => esc_html__( 'Add New Event', 'event' ), 'new_item' => esc_html__( 'New Event', 'event' ), 'edit_item' => esc_html__( 'Edit Event', 'event' ), 'view_item' => esc_html__( 'View Event', 'event' ), 'all_items' => esc_html__( 'All Events', 'event' ), 'search_items' => esc_html__( 'Search Events', 'event' ), 'parent_item_colon' => esc_html__( 'Parent Events:', 'event' ), 'not_found' => esc_html__( 'No events found.', 'event' ), 'not_found_in_trash' => esc_html__( 'No events found in Trash.','event' ) ); $args = array( 'labels' => $labels, 'description' => __( 'Description.', 'event' ), 'public' => true, 'publicly_queryable' => true, 'show_ui' => true, 'show_in_menu' => true, 'query_var' => true, 'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'event' ), 'capability_type' => 'post', 'has_archive' => false, 'hierarchical' => false, 'menu_position' => null, 'menu_icon' => 'dashicons-calendar-alt', 'supports' => array( 'title', 'author', 'thumbnail', 'excerpt', 'comments' ) ); register_post_type( 'event', $args ); } add_action( 'init', 'eventCPT'));