So today I’m chippin’ away at a redesign for my rusted art website. Like most sites I develop, I rolled it out on Wordpress. I seemed to have run a into a bug though, and I’m not sure if this a localized me thing, or a legit gremlin.
The problem
I uploaded a custom page template to my FTP and and wasn’t not showing up in the Wordpress admin. So I double and triple checked to make sure my Template tags were all cool, and they were. Normally, a drop down that lets me choose which page template I want to use will show up, but for some reason: no dice.
The fix
What seemed to fix the problem was the following:
- Activate a different theme (I just activated the default)
- Reactivate your desired theme
- Go to Manage > Pages
- And you should now see the Page Template
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About the author
Danno started freelancing in 1996. He is the co-founder and (ex) President of Graphics.net, owner of FeedIcons.com, EliteFreelancing.com, FastCharacters.com and SteelAndSnow.com. He digs wind, waves, guitars and circles. Follow Danno on Twitter.
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.
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.
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
October 13th, 2008
The same thing happened to me last week. However you can check some other examples at http://www.7strategy.com.
October 14th, 2008
Excellent! It worked for me too. Thanks
October 29th, 2008
Зря не используете FeedBurner
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..
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
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…
November 2nd, 2008
Go to #worpress on freenode irc and ask there.
November 27th, 2008
THANK YOU GOD!!! THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH… sorry for the caps im just super stoked
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)
December 11th, 2008
That fixed!!
Thanks a lot
December 23rd, 2008
this helped me as well. Thanks for this tip!
December 23rd, 2008
:-)
January 1st, 2009
Hi. Good site.
January 2nd, 2009
ommmmmgggggg I love you.
January 17th, 2009
Popular little post this one.
January 26th, 2009
Worked for me too – many thanks
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.
February 8th, 2009
Thanks for this post. Got here by searching "custom templates not showing wordpress"
February 16th, 2009
friggin' sweet!
February 16th, 2009
Still works I see :-)
March 19th, 2009
Simply reactivating your theme will work fine.
April 10th, 2009
thanks for posting….i always appreciate the first result from google working!
April 16th, 2009
You're most welcome.
April 24th, 2009
This worked great THANKS!
April 25th, 2009
Aaahhh Haaa!
I'm working in the wrong theme!
Thank you for sharing!
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!
May 6th, 2009
Much appreciated. Your post saved a lot time for fixing a really odd problem.
May 6th, 2009
Finally a solution, thanks!
May 11th, 2009
Many thanks! Your hint just saved me!
Thanks again,
P.
May 19th, 2009
Thanks! I thought there was something wrong with my template.
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.
May 20th, 2009
You're all welcome x 10.
June 1st, 2009
Thanks for the help! I thought I had screwed something up. I guess it wasn't me, this time…
June 7th, 2009
Worked for us to on a custom wordpress theme design. Great post!
June 15th, 2009
it's the same thing like a computer. Sometimes rebooting is all you need.
June 17th, 2009
thanks for this was searching for 1 hour!
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…
July 23rd, 2009
списки кандидатов, выдвигаемые партиями политическими и избирательными объединениями (блоками) для выборах в представительные органы, проводимые сообразно пропорциональной избирательной системе.
August 2nd, 2009
Fixed, cheers.
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
August 13th, 2009
Thanks a ton. I was about to pull my hair out. This is STILL a prob in 2.8
August 25th, 2009
Thanks for this post! I was going crazy!
September 2nd, 2009
Wow thanks that really helped!!!
September 6th, 2009
Thanks, the best tip I got in days :)
September 13th, 2009
Works for me too.. still not fixed in latest SVN, apparently.
September 15th, 2009
Thanks man, this helped me out instantly :)
kirk
September 17th, 2009
I was pulling my hair out man! This worked a treat, Thank you from Australia
September 20th, 2009
Thanks buddy!
October 11th, 2009
Thanks! :)
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
October 23rd, 2009
This is no bragging really. ,
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
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.
November 10th, 2009
Yep. That worked.. Thanks
November 11th, 2009
Thank you sooooooo much. I was just about to pull my hair out over this!
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 !
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.
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.
January 14th, 2010
Great! You made my day! Thanks, cheers!
January 27th, 2010
Helped me thanks!!
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!
February 3rd, 2010
аквариум
February 4th, 2010
This was driving me crazy, I thought it was plugin related at first… Thank you for the fix!
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