{"id":107,"date":"2015-09-06T08:24:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T13:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.developingsense.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2015-09-27T07:01:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T07:01:29","slug":"template-option-missing-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.developingsense.com\/blog\/template-option-missing-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Template option missing in wordpress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Templates in wordpress are of immense use particularly if we want to have a different design for a particular page.Normally,when we create a template a dropdown is shown on the right hand side as a dropdown from where we select the template and then save the page.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes this option is missing. There can be two reasons behind this.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You have uploaded the template file in the wrong place using FTP .It should always be uploaded in the theme which is active.<\/li>\n<li>The template file is not created properly as you missed the required template tags.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"container\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"line number1 index0 alt2\"><code class=\"php plain\">&lt;?php <\/code><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number1 index0 alt2\"><code class=\"php comments\">\/* Template name: My Custom Page Template<\/code><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number1 index0 alt2\"><code class=\"php comments\"> *\/<\/code><code class=\"php plain\">?&gt;<\/code><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"line number1 index0 alt2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number1 index0 alt2\">Always start the template file using above tags and can name it accordingly to the purpose which will be served by the template.<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number1 index0 alt2\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number1 index0 alt2\">Do share your comments and feedback and i can help you out if you face any problem.<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number1 index0 alt2\">You can also share this post<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number1 index0 alt2\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Templates in wordpress are of immense use particularly if we want to have a different design for a particular page.Normally,when we create a template a dropdown is shown on the right hand side as a dropdown from where we select the template and then save the page. But sometimes this option is missing. There can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[25,26],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.developingsense.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/template.png?fit=337%2C312&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AcB6-1J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.developingsense.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.developingsense.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.developingsense.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.developingsense.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.developingsense.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.developingsense.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.developingsense.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.developingsense.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.developingsense.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.developingsense.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}