Title: WordPress page defaulting to wrong template
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WordPress page defaulting to wrong template

 *  [lavra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lavra/)
 * (@lavra)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-page-defaulting-to-wrong-template/)
 * This issue just started in the last 24ish hours. When editing an existing page,
   OR creating a new page, selecting any template in the template dropdown seems
   to work.. then when we save the page, it defaults to a different template. The
   template it switches over to is not a default, or index, or anything like that.
 * It seems any page we edit or create defaults to this template, no matter which
   template we choose.
 * -We don’t have any template file named home.php.
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 * –EDIT– Something else we noticed, this only happens when there is NO parent page
   set. If we set a parent page (any page), the selected template persists just 
   fine.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-page-defaulting-to-wrong-template/#post-2327344)
 * Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
 *  [jrwells42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrwells42/)
 * (@jrwells42)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-page-defaulting-to-wrong-template/#post-2327609)
 * Is it happening on several computers, or just one? I’ve got this going on with
   one computer, but every other computer I try it on (even on the same site) it
   doesn’t do it. Try clearing cache/history and make sure IE is up to date.

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 * Last reply from: [jrwells42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrwells42/)
 * Last activity: [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-page-defaulting-to-wrong-template/#post-2327609)
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