Because it does not have page templates ?
It could be any number of reasons from the little you have stated.
Thread Starter
fyntas
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How it can to not have page templates? I using same wordpress version! And I NEED that contacts template! How can it not be there? And how i can to make that template?
Copy the template from your other install and upload it into your theme folder?
Thread Starter
fyntas
(@fyntas)
Tou dont understand my problem. I cant set page template IN ADMIN PANEL. There is no feature like that. This is not a problem whith theme.
I might have had the same problem. You’re saying that there’s no dropdown menu for Page Template, right? To resolve it, go to Custom Fields box, select “_wp_page_template” from Key dropdown menu, and set the Value with the name of Page Template that you have. Click on “Add Custom Field” and the Page Template dropdown menu should re-appear.
Just to clarify. On a new installation (of v2.0.1) there is no “Key dropdown menu”. Putting “_wp_page_template” in the “Key” textbox and something in the “Value” text area, and hitting the “Add Custom Field Button” will cause the drop down box to appear with “_wp_page_template” as a choice.
However, while that was my first attempt, I really don’t think that’s enough information to get Custom Fields working (they don’t appear in the Key/Value/Action table on the page editing screen), and it’s not the answer to the question here. [And since I don’t need Custom Fields for anything else at the moment, I’ll ignore that problem.]
THIS question, as I understand it, is how to get the page template menu to appear (on the right hand side of the page editing screen). The answer is relatively simple. Create a new template, my_template_name.php, in the theme directory AND be sure it has the following lines at the top:
<?php
/*
Template Name: My Template Name
*/
?>
The documentation IS clear, see
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages
but may not be “heard” correctly by those who are new to the whole process.
See also
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/52511
