Template Dropdown not showing up within Wordpress administrator page

Question

I am working on a Wordpress-based project, and I just added a new template to the installation by uploading a template file. I was creating a new page that will use my new templ

Answer 1

I had this problem a while back and found one janky solution after a lot of search--sometimes switching to another theme in your install and then switching back to you primary theme will make your templates appear. I know that sounds weird, but worked for me for a while.

Answer 2

This was also a problem for me and it was because of folder structure. The Theme Handbook told me a should organize my theme folder and files like so:

assets (dir)
    - css (dir)
    - images (dir)
    - js (dir)
inc (dir)
template-parts (dir)
    - footer (dir)
    - header (dir)
    - navigation (dir)
    - page (dir)
    - post (dir)
404.php
archive.php
comments.php
footer.php
front-page.php
function.php
header.php
index.php
page.php
README.txt
rtl.css
screenshot.png
search.php
searchform.php
sidebar.php
single.php
style.php

The page template I was trying to load was in /template-parts/page/template-contactus.php

I guess that was too deep for WordPress so I got ride of those directories and now my file structure looks like this:

assets (dir)
    - css (dir)
    - images (dir)
    - js (dir)
inc (dir)
template-parts (dir)
    - section-content.php
    - template-contactus.php
404.php
archive.php
comments.php
footer.php
front-page.php
function.php
header.php
index.php
page.php
README.txt
rtl.css
screenshot.png
search.php
searchform.php
sidebar.php
single.php
style.php

I am now able to see the template drop-down and add templates.

Hope this helps someone.

Answer 3

I know is super late for this question, but I fix it adding

Version: 0.1 alpha

in the comments of the themeFolder/style.css

This is my style.css complete for my theme

/*
  Theme Name: Stockout Theme
  Theme URI: http://stockout.com.uy/myTheme
  Author: MauriPastorini
  Author URI: http://stockout.com.uy
  Description: This is a theme for stockout page
  Version: 0.1 alpha
*/

I hope someone find this useful

Answer 4

You will not see the dropdown if you have added 0 custom template files in your theme root.

When at least 1 template is available, the WordPress ecosystem picks it up and the dropdown will become visible.

Add this in your theme root to try it.

<?php

/*
 Template Name: Front Page
*/

Answer 5

If you have disabled or removed the style.css from the template directory then also it will not work.

So there must be the style.css on template directory then the templates directory will be shown. When you try to remove the style.css from the template directory or using style.css from css folder, then you must be put one style.css on template directory.

Thanks

Answer 6

In my case, I had called the template schedule-template-v2.php which won't work, the file name needs to be schedulev2-template.php. A simple mistake.