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WordPress WordPress Theme Development Building Page Templates in WordPress Creating Custom Page Templates in WordPress

Posted by Brandon Smith
Brandon Smith
7,420 Points

In my page Attributes, there is no template. What could be the cause for this?

I've tried looking through the wordpress page template section for references but still having the same problem of the template section not appearing.

Brandon Smith
Brandon Smith
7,420 Points

Just figured it out. So, I thought maybe my theme wasn't updating so I deactivated it and then re activated it. Upon this, I noticed that a warning sign had popped up saying my theme had no style sheet. Looked into my function.php page and noticed I had added an s on the style.css directory. Fixed that, reactivated page and now I see the tab on attributes, that now says templates.

Ashenafi Ashebo
Ashenafi Ashebo
15,021 Points
Ashenafi Ashebo
Ashenafi Ashebo
15,021 Points

May be you didn't close the codes properly.

check this one, all the codes are properly closed. Then you will see template sidebare.

<?php

/* Template Name: Left sidebare */

?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<section class="two-column row no-max pad">
    <div class="small-12 columns">
        <div class="row">
      <!-- Primary Column -->
            <div class="small-12 medium-7 medium-offset-1 medium-push-4 columns">
                <div class="primary">

                                <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

                                      <h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
                                      <hr>
                                      <p><?php the_content(); ?></p>  

                                <?php endwhile; else : ?>

                                    <p><?php _e( 'Sorry, no pages found.' ); ?></p>

                                <?php endif; ?>       

                </div> 

            </div>    
      <!-- Secondary Column -->
                 <div class="small-12 medium-4 medium-pull-8 columns">
                       <div class="secondary">
                          <h2 class="module-heading">Sidebar</h2>
                      </div>
                 </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</section>

<?php get_footer(); ?>