Comments on: WordPress Custom Page Templates Not Displaying In Dropdown

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:36:15 +0000

Glad the file path suggestion helped. I suppose it could have been a file permission error too, but hard to know on this end. If /opt had full read/write there shouldn’t have been an permissions issue.

At least you got it working. It would have been nice to know why, but getting everything to work was more important.

By: Rahul Oza

Rahul Oza — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:15:03 +0000

File paths is a great suggestion and I went back and had a look. I might be completely off the map here, but I tried moving XAMPP from /opt to another directory and the problem disappears.

Could it be permissions? I gave the original XAMPP install in /opt full read-write (777) access and it works fine.

I think maybe I’m dwelling too deep into this – but cheers for the help though! Saved me heaps of time!

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:28:56 +0000

Thanks Rahul. Glad I could help in some way.

I still haven’t updated, though I know I really should so I can’t speak to much about any issues with 3.0 yet. Interesting that it’s happening more locally. I wonder if it has something to with file paths. I know how I’ve set things up locally the paths can be different than what they are online.

By: Rahul Oza

Rahul Oza — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:00:34 +0000

This is an excellent post and thank you – definitely helped me!

I’ve just updated to WP 3.0 and the problem seems to be on and off – not sure why. It’s more prominent on localhost (using XAMPP with Ubuntu) compared to when I’m working off the server live. Any ideas?

The “soft-reboot” thing seems to sort it either way.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:42:21 +0000

Everything I found about this is described in the post. One thing that seemed weird, but worked for me was to first attempt to edit the file through WordPress internal editor. The changes I made there didn’t take, but once I then changed permissions things did work.

What version of WP are you using?

Also while it should make sense maybe try the same things that didn’t work a few times. Sometimes that ends up working for me. A fix won’t work the first time, but it will when I try it a second or third time. No idea why that should work, but it sometimes does.

By: Krista

Krista — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:25:16 +0000

Hey Steven,
I am having a similar problem. However, the activate and re-activate didn’t work, neither did setting the permissions to 755. I went onto my host (godaddy) and even played around with the permissions in there and no luck.
Any other suggestions or fixes you can think of?
Thanks!

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:11:25 +0000

Let me know if the ideas here help. This was something that came about in 2.7 I think. My guess is the solution will work in 3.0, but you never know. Hopefully one of the solutions above will do the trick.

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:58:10 +0000

I got the same problem last night with a client’s blog. I am actually just porting same blog to another domain with all the files and settings intact. Everything seems to work fine until I came to the point of setting up Home as my home page and couldn’t see the template there inside the editor panel. Searching for another solution, I came across your post. I will try it now. BTW, I’m running Wordpress 3.0.

By: Maris

Maris — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:43:22 +0000

Hey! Thanx a lot! You saved me a lot of time… )

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:37:23 +0000

I didn’t notice the permission issue until I first tried editing the custom template through the WordPress interface for editing files. I had thought they were all fine until that point.

Did you try to edit one of the templates that isn’t showing up through WordPress’s editor? If not try that. Try making a small change and saving the template file through the WordPress backend and then see if it either works or if you now see the incorrect permissions.