Create NEW Template Using Plugin

Hey all,

Just stuck with this issue here.

I am designing a plugin that adds a new page to the blog automatically.

The issue is that I want to use a custom template (which will be part of the plugin package). Let’s call that customtemplate.php

Now, I need to make sure that the new page created uses this template.

So far, I’ve tried using absolute and relative paths for the _wp_page_template meta data to refer to this file in the plugin’s own folder.

But that doesn’t work.

Then, I tried copying over the file to the current theme’s folder. Again, no luck, since folder permissions come in between.

So, is there a workaround to create a new template using a plugin?

Been looking for this forever! ??

Sagar