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• Drew Strojny:
  October 9th, 2008

  Weird.

  This same exact thing happened to me the other day. Drove me nuts for about 20 minutes. I ended up stumbling on that fix too. Sounds like it might be a bug, although I am not sure how to replicate it.

• Danno:
  October 9th, 2008

  Yeah, I hear you Drew. It seems that activating a different theme and reactivating your desired theme is the Wordpress equivalent of a soft reboot. I’ve used this theme reboot technique to fix a few odd issues and now is one of the first things I do when trouble shooting Wordpress weirdness.

• Wes Fierce:
  October 10th, 2008

  Hey thanks for the tip, I just now noticed this on my new site. It didnt effect my other site though :P

• Luis Pastrulo:
  October 13th, 2008

  The same thing happened to me last week. However you can check some other examples at http://www.7strategy.com.

• TR:
  October 14th, 2008

  Excellent! It worked for me too. Thanks

• Amir:
  October 29th, 2008

  Зря не используете FeedBurner

• joban:
  October 29th, 2008

  Hi

  I have an issue with the page templates..

  I have 4 menu links in the home page. these pages are loading differently styles pages. So I have created pages in word press admin with same page slugs. They are about, products, contacts, services. I also created the same 4 php files in my new themes named about.php, products.php, contacts.php and services.php

  but when I load the pages the its shows only the page templates in the page.php

  I am really stuck on this

  Any help appreciated ..

  Thanks in advance..

• gawexersHaw:
  October 30th, 2008

  Админчег :) У меня к тебе небольшое предложение, хоть и не по теме блога ;) Напиши пожалуйста свой обзор передачи Гордон Кихот. Особенно прошлый выпуск, про Шансон.

  Спасибо :) Удачи дружище

• Прошу-Внимания:
  November 2nd, 2008

  http://www.elitefreelancing.com, админ. Кто писал про последнее китайское предупреждение ? Извини. Я надеюсь мы найдем компромисс ? 1. Поставь на блог-комментирование хорошую каптчу. 2. Пошли урлы своих блогов сюда chezanah@gmail.com и ты избавишься от меня. Ещё раз приношу извинения. издержки производства…

• Danno:
  November 2nd, 2008

  Go to #worpress on freenode irc and ask there.

• TJMapes:
  November 27th, 2008

  THANK YOU GOD!!! THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH… sorry for the caps im just super stoked

• Eric:
  December 2nd, 2008

  yeah it's just happened to me too, Ive got a duplicate template that I can switch to and back from so that hopefully no visitors notice the changes. Thanks for the tip (I've also been unable to recreate the problem, I have been uploading new versions of the custom page template from time to time and I think it could have something to do with that)

• Israel Meneses:
  December 11th, 2008

  That fixed!!

  Thanks a lot

• Annie:
  December 23rd, 2008

  this helped me as well. Thanks for this tip!

• Danno:
  December 23rd, 2008

  :-)

• Santana:
  January 1st, 2009

  Hi. Good site.

• Greg_G:
  January 2nd, 2009

  ommmmmgggggg I love you.

• Danno:
  January 17th, 2009

  Popular little post this one.

• Ian:
  January 26th, 2009

  Worked for me too – many thanks

• Damien:
  February 6th, 2009

  This post is a lifesaver. It's so weird that this is still an issue in WordPress 2.7. They should have caught and fixed it by now.

• dayn:
  February 8th, 2009

  Thanks for this post. Got here by searching "custom templates not showing wordpress"

• joe:
  February 16th, 2009

  friggin' sweet!

• Danno:
  February 16th, 2009

  Still works I see :-)

• Jake Holman:
  March 19th, 2009

  Simply reactivating your theme will work fine.

• Ryan:
  April 10th, 2009

  thanks for posting….i always appreciate the first result from google working!

• Danno:
  April 16th, 2009

  You're most welcome.

• Kyle:
  April 24th, 2009

  This worked great THANKS!

• carlnunes:
  April 25th, 2009

  Aaahhh Haaa!

  I'm working in the wrong theme!

  Thank you for sharing!

• Kristof:
  May 6th, 2009

  Damn that explains it. I am just previewing a Theme with the plugin "user-theme" and I was going nuts because my freakin Template isn't showing up.
  You just saved me hours of trying to fix it, thanks a lot!

• darkmatter:
  May 6th, 2009

  Much appreciated. Your post saved a lot time for fixing a really odd problem.

• Antonio:
  May 6th, 2009

  Finally a solution, thanks!

• Paolo Gabrielli:
  May 11th, 2009

  Many thanks! Your hint just saved me!

  Thanks again,
  P.

• Ben:
  May 19th, 2009

  Thanks! I thought there was something wrong with my template.

• robotronik:
  May 20th, 2009

  Oh, thank you so much.

  I was so confused– "That dropdown was here yesterday!?"

  Your fix worked for me. You're a life saver.

• Danno:
  May 20th, 2009

  You're all welcome x 10.

• Rick Winkler:
  June 1st, 2009

  Thanks for the help! I thought I had screwed something up. I guess it wasn't me, this time…

• MangoBaboon:
  June 7th, 2009

  Worked for us to on a custom wordpress theme design. Great post!

• free food samples:
  June 15th, 2009

  it's the same thing like a computer. Sometimes rebooting is all you need.

• andrew:
  June 17th, 2009

  thanks for this was searching for 1 hour!

• SAM:
  July 21st, 2009

  Just switched to 2.8.2 and the page templates do not work…. I select the appropriate template from the drop down men and when I click save it bounces me back to the default page template. Really frustrating…

• Словарь Юриста:
  July 23rd, 2009

  списки кандидатов, выдвигаемые партиями политическими и избирательными объединениями (блоками) для выборах в представительные органы, проводимые сообразно пропорциональной избирательной системе.

• Alastair:
  August 2nd, 2009

  Fixed, cheers.

• chodorowicz:
  August 12th, 2009

  In my case this solution didnt work. In my case It turned out to be a problem with the style.css encoding – it was Latin-1 intstead of UTF-8

• T.C.:
  August 13th, 2009

  Thanks a ton. I was about to pull my hair out. This is STILL a prob in 2.8

• Benjamin Charity:
  August 25th, 2009

  Thanks for this post! I was going crazy!

• Terri:
  September 2nd, 2009

  Wow thanks that really helped!!!

• Simon:
  September 6th, 2009

  Thanks, the best tip I got in days :)

• Achton:
  September 13th, 2009

  Works for me too.. still not fixed in latest SVN, apparently.

• kirk:
  September 15th, 2009

  Thanks man, this helped me out instantly :)

  kirk

• Sam:
  September 17th, 2009

  I was pulling my hair out man! This worked a treat, Thank you from Australia

• Matt:
  September 20th, 2009

  Thanks buddy!

• Jay August:
  October 11th, 2009

  Thanks! :)

• Alberto:
  October 12th, 2009

  oh , thanks, it worked, i am goint to try it in another bugs in wordpress maybe i can fix them this way

• Faggot90:
  October 23rd, 2009

  This is no bragging really. ,

• Joseph:
  October 27th, 2009

  Helpful post! I think this is related to moving from one Theme with page templates into another with page templates…but I haven't tested it thoroughly

• James:
  November 4th, 2009

  Sweet thanks! Same thing happened to me I'm using version 2.8.4 this is still an issue haven't been fixed.

• Henri:
  November 10th, 2009

  Yep. That worked.. Thanks

• Stephanie:
  November 11th, 2009

  Thank you sooooooo much. I was just about to pull my hair out over this!

• Paul:
  December 10th, 2009

  Worked! Wow… I gone mad when I noticed that I can not apply custom template anymore! I spent 3 days going crazy! Thanks for this post! Solved the mistery ;) Good job ;) However this should not happen !

• Josh:
  December 15th, 2009

  I was following along in a tutorial two weeks ago, working with WP for the first time. You can imagine my frustration when the little "page template" drop down wasn't there when it was for the instructor! I must have messed around with it for about 2 hours trying to get it to appear. I must have come across your fix by accident, but I didn't realize what it was that fixed it. This morning however, it happened again. THANKS for posting this! You saved me another 2 hours of fussing around trying to stumble across the fix this morning.

• Rebecca:
  December 21st, 2009

  Can I just say thank you! You totally saved me from punching and kicking the wall. Thank you. Did I mention thanks yet? What a weird solution.

• Claudio:
  January 14th, 2010

  Great! You made my day! Thanks, cheers!

• April:
  January 27th, 2010

  Helped me thanks!!

• stardust:
  January 30th, 2010

  the same thing is happening to me right now and i cannot even log into wordpress. how can i resolve it?

  my site log in is http://www.theentrepreneurbusiness.com/wp-login.php

  thanks in advance!

• Vladimir2:
  February 3rd, 2010

  аквариум

• Jonas:
  February 4th, 2010

  This was driving me crazy, I thought it was plugin related at first… Thank you for the fix!

  –
  chillze.com

• Houdi:
  February 10th, 2010

  Thanks for the help mate! This helped for me

• Vladimir67:
  February 12th, 2010

  Apple News

• Devin Walker:
  February 26th, 2010

  Great simple fix, thanks man.

• Vladislav30:
  March 15th, 2010

  театр

• Shameema:
  March 19th, 2010

  S, it worked. Thanks a lot.

• Shannon:
  March 23rd, 2010

  Ha! Just what I was looking for. Thanks!

• Nathália:
  March 30th, 2010

  This is so simple and it was almost driving me crazy!
  How could I imagine that just deactivating and reactivating would solve it?
  Thanks for posting! :D

• Josh:
  March 30th, 2010

  I'm late to this party, but if you scrolled all the way down, maybe you have my problem: It STILL didn't show up! Solution – I forgot to include the little php ditty at the top assigning the theme a name. Actually, it was there, but I had cut, pasted, and modified another one of my page themes and I forgot to give it a different name!

• Steve :
  March 31st, 2010

  Thanks that worked. weird.

• DaveK:
  April 1st, 2010

  Thanks for that worked a treat, stopped me ripping out my remaining hair.

• Ethan:
  April 4th, 2010

  Thanks a TON Danno! This saced me after hours of hairpulling… I had been playing with post template plugins, and lost the template box. Man, that was scary after reinstalling wordpress and all the template plugins, to still have to template support. This writeup you did really saved me, thank you again so much!

• RoninRojo:
  April 7th, 2010

  Works! Thanks a lot!

• Rodrigo:
  April 15th, 2010

  Thanks, it worked!

• Danno:
  April 18th, 2010

  No problem. Good to see it still does the trick.

• Jumana:
  May 3rd, 2010

  THANK YOU !!! thank you for posting about this, you sure saved me allot of time :)

• Tom Procter:
  May 25th, 2010

  Sat there, thought "wtf?", googled some concoction of crazy algorithms and magic queries and found your site… and BOOM!

  Problem solved.

  Cheers Boss

• religioustruth:
  May 29th, 2010

  That's odd that it does that. This glitch has been present for so long. It seems over a year according to the comment dates. I'm using WP 2.9.2 on a couple websites and had never encountered this issue before.

  Today I created a simple simple page template that just centered the title and I got this issue you speak of. I did exactly as you stated and it worked. I'm still learning WP, however, in other systems something like this usually has something to do with the cache that some CMS/blogs use. I wonder if that could be the culprit?

• Shaun:
  May 31st, 2010

  Wow, I had somehow edited out the template names and taken out the UTF code/formatting above my CSS. The re establishing my theme didn't do the trick but I think naming the templates did. To get more detail on this visit, http://www.wordpressmax.com/customize-wordpress/c... – which basically says to add this code at the top,

  <?php /* Template Name: New Template Name */ ?>
  <html>
  Your HTML Code Here

• RCS:
  June 1st, 2010

  Thanks for the fix.

• Gabriel Svennerberg:
  June 3rd, 2010

  Thanks! I was really confused by this, but your fix did the job!

• jesse:
  June 9th, 2010

  Thanks. That helped RIGHT when i needed it.

• MMcD:
  June 14th, 2010

  Thanks = this just happened to me this morning – came across your fix worked a treat – thanks

• Nathan:
  July 13th, 2010

  Good call! I've often used custom templates, but have never had this issue until today. Glad I found this post so quickly!

  Loving the rusty art too, by the way ;-)

• Damian:
  July 16th, 2010

  Thanyou so much men for post it…I duno if wordpress knows it

• William:
  July 21st, 2010

  Thanks man! Worked for me, too.