Comments on: WordPress Custom Page Templates Not Displaying In Dropdown

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:21:16 +0000

Thanks for the link Gustavo. I’m kind of surprised this bug still exists, but I guess it still does. I never thought this post would last as long as it has when I first wrote. Glad it can still help people.

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:25:15 +0000

Thanks for your post!

It’s fun to see how this bug is still a problem in Wordpress, even three years later.

In my case the problem was caused for special characters in the description of the theme. Just a Ñ make the theme cant be recognized by Wordpress.
I found the solution here (in spanish)
Hope this help to others.

By: wordpress: how to set a particular template for a page : Willing wheels

wordpress: how to set a particular template for a page : Willing wheels — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:24:58 +0000

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By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:45:38 +0000

I’m glad I could help. I was feeling the same frustration when it happened to me.

By: Franck

Franck — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:35:02 +0000

Thanks Steven.
You saved me a lot of time . I was getting crazy not to get the template options!

Franck

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:24:54 +0000

Chase, I haven’t used Subversion and it definitely wasn’t an issue for me with this problem. I have no idea why the permissions weren’t right, only that they weren’t. It was strange and it’s not something that’s come up again for me.

By: Chase Adams

Chase Adams — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:42:57 +0000

Thanks for this.

I wonder, were you using Subversion or any version control system? I had the same issue and it’s the first time I’ve run into the permissions not being set right, and I wonder if it’s because I created the file within my IDE’s Subversion extension.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:05:25 +0000

Glad I could help Nancy. This was one of those weird bugs that took me forever to figure out. I’m glad I’m able to save others some time.

And I’ll second the vote for any code Yoast writes. He always has great stuff.

By: Nancy B

Nancy B — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:39:42 +0000

Thank you so much for this! I found an interesting way to create custom templates for RSS feeds that Yoast wrote. I got it from here: http://www.wprecipes.com/creating-user-defined-rss-feeds-in-wordpress

I changed the two lines:
$posts = query_posts(’showposts=’.$numposts);

$lastpost = $numposts – 1;

to be
$posts = query_posts( ‘cat=26&tag=new-hampshire-links’ );

$lastpost = $numposts – 1;

and named the template ‘custom-feed-nh.php. But it would not show up in the list you describe.

Now I changed the name to: Template Name: Custom Feed NH and it works perfectly.

Thank you so much!
Nancy

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:35:20 +0000

Glad I could help. Definitely not a common problem. Most people never seem to be affected, but I know how frustrating it was for me when I was affected.