Title: Template Missing – Bug Discovery
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Template Missing – Bug Discovery

 *  [drewprops](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewprops/)
 * (@drewprops)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-missing-bug-discovery/)
 * _Before I report this as a bug I wanted to see if anyone can replicate the error._
 * CONTEXT
    Last night I was putting together some custom Page templates and creating
   customized styles for each of those page layouts.
 * PROBLEM
    In the “Design” tab in the Admin panel I noticed that my selected Theme
   was not shown as the primary theme. According to WordPress, that theme was de-
   selected to the bottom of the list and its screenshot was missing. The text message
   indicated that the **theme was missing**.
 * PROBLEM SOLVING
    The Theme was not missing from the server and after 30 minutes
   of scanning the code I determined that none of the Theme’s pages were damaged
   or mis-written. Finally, I swapped out the stylesheet for a blank stylesheet 
   just to see what would happen, and Voila! the Theme was once again perceived 
   by the WP Admin panel as being valid. The problem was somehow related to the 
   stylesheet.
 * SOLUTION
    Returning to the style definitions I’d been working on most recently,
   I noticed something suspicious. I use the application CSSEdit (Mac) which allows
   the user to encapsulate blocks of stylesheet code into “folders” to make organizing
   your code MUCH easier. CSSEdit does this by wrapping those blocks of code with
   comments. My problem was that I’d used the word “Template” as a title for one
   of these “folders”.
 * BUG
    Stylesheet comments must somehow be interpreted by the WP engine as Theme-
   breaking code.
 *     ```
       /* @group Template: video */
   
       .example {
       	margin-top: 5px;
       	margin-right: 10px;
       	margin-left: 10px;
       	background-color: #ffc480;
       }
   
       /* @end */
       ```
   
 * Might there be a way to put a warning note on the Codex for Page Templates that
   the word “template” is reserved so that people won’t use it in their CSS? I’d
   hate for anyone else to experience this problem!
 * Thanks!

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