Don’t really get what you mean. Can you explain more?
Well I have this page that needs to look slightly different from the rest of the site.
I’m not sure, but before I’m pretty sure all I needed to do was make a copy of the template page.php, change it, rename it
Then when I create a page, in the boxes on the right hand side (page slug, page order etc) there used to be a page template option where you can choose from a drop down list.
Hope that’s better info.
Cheers,
Steve
Usually the dropdown does not appear if WordPress finds no Page templates with a theme. So:
1. When you changed your copy of page.php, did you follow the directions here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_your_own_Page_Templates
2. Is the template uploaded to the active theme’s directory?
In my experience WP needs two [2] Page templates to display the dropdown menu..
moshu, I just tested that with the default theme and saw no problem with having only the links.php Page template (or archives.php — didn’t matter which one I left in).
Aha! Now I see: it has to have one template with template name at the top – since I’ve never deleted the default page.php when testing, I thought it needed two for the dropdown.
It means the dropdown shows up when there is a “named” Page template.
I stand corrected.
Yeah, thanks guys, needs two templates in order to offer the drop down.
Resolved!
Guys,
just to let you know. I had the same problem. Naming templates would not show me the drop down menu, no matter how many templates I created. The problem was that I had no theme selected in DESIGN section (working with a custom blog template, not sure how this could happen). Just to let you know, if you have this problem, double check that you have a theme selected in Design. 😉
thanks, brs, for pointing me in the right direction!
looking at DESIGNS (now TEMPLATES) after updating to 2.7 i realized there was NO template available at all from dashboard…!?
to fix that i went to edit the database in phpmyadmin:
in wp_options the table current_theme was somehow set to an old, deceased theme
after changing it to the current theme name, all works fine, including selecting a page template!
