How to use: template_include

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How to use: template_include

[johnstonphilip]

@Bowriverstudio if I understand you right, you want to use something like this in your theme's html files to include template parts:

<!-- wp:template-part {"slug":"name-of-template-part-file-without-extension","theme":"your-theme-name"} /-->

This is how the index.html file in the parisienne theme includes its header:
https://github.com/WordPress/theme-experiments/blob/master/parisienne/block-templates/index.html#L2

[Bowriverstudio]

Hi John, thanks for the answer. I've got a custom post type in a plugin and want to include a template part that is not in the child theme folder. Does that make sense?

[johnstonphilip]

I traced the code for template-part inclusion back to here:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/blob/21304f999b1cbcc53d8ad098d297a6e9cf049e69/packages/block-library/src/template-part/index.php#L33

It doesn't look like there's any handling there for template files that would exist outside of a theme, so the only way I can see to do that would be to programmatically insert a post with the post_type set to wp_template_part and the slug set to match what your theme is calling as the slug.

In this case it would be the word "header", but I guess you could call it whatever you want. For example:

<!-- wp:template-part {"slug":"slug-of-your-programmatically-created-template-part","theme":"your-theme-name"} /-->

[Bowriverstudio]

Thank you for your help John. I think I'll just include the code I'd normally put in a plugin, in the theme for now.