Hi @jimmcl61, there is only one page template in Twenty Twenty-Three, and it’s called Page. This is the template that’s used by default when creating static pages. (Hence, why it’s the default. 🙂 )
The other templates are automatically applied to parts of your site. For example, Single drives the display of single blog posts. Archive drives the display of blog archives like date, category, and tag archive pages.
Since those other templates are dynamically applied by WordPress, it’s not possible to manually apply them to a static page.
If you’d like to create a new page template in order to apply it manually to a page, you can do that. Here’s a full guide:
https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/article/template-editor/#to-add-a-new-template
Let me know how it goes!
there is only one page template in Twenty Twenty-Three
Actually, I should have double-checked before saying that, sorry 😉
There are two more built-in templates available to choose from: Blank – a template without a header & footer – and Blog (Alternative), which is meant for displaying blog posts.
This approach seems to run counter to the concept of a template, whereby a page layout (template) is saved and can be used/applied to other pages. If one can’t select a template in a page settings, it would seem to be a somewhat useless feature.
@jimmcl61 In WordPress, some templates can be applied to pages and/or posts manually. Others are applied automatically to specific types of content.
To better understand which templates WordPress automatically applies to different types of pages, feel free to check out:
https://developer.ww.wp.xz.cn/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/
So for example, if you wanted to modify the way archive pages appeared – such as the dynamically generated Category pages – you can do that by editing the Archive template. In a theme that includes the Category template, you would edit that one instead of Archive.
I hope this helps better explains how templates are used in WordPress.
If you’re trying to achieve something specific but are running into challenges, please let me know what you’d like to do so I can better guide you.
I appreciate the patience and guidance!
You’re most welcome, Jim!
Feel free to start a new thread if we can help with anything else.
