Title: Cannot set page template
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Cannot set page template

 *  [fyntas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fyntas/)
 * (@fyntas)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-set-page-template/)
 * Hey, i got 2 wordpress sites. In one, when creating page, u can set his template(
   e.g contacts) and on another i cant see this feature. Why?

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-set-page-template/#post-247466)
 * Because it does not have page templates ?
    It could be any number of reasons 
   from the little you have stated.
 *  Thread Starter [fyntas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fyntas/)
 * (@fyntas)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-set-page-template/#post-247469)
 * How it can to not have page templates? I using same wordpress version! And I 
   NEED that contacts template! How can it not be there? And how i can to make that
   template?
 *  [oriecat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oriecat/)
 * (@oriecat)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-set-page-template/#post-247472)
 * Copy the template from your other install and upload it into your theme folder?
 *  Thread Starter [fyntas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fyntas/)
 * (@fyntas)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-set-page-template/#post-247476)
 * Tou dont understand my problem. I cant set page template IN ADMIN PANEL. There
   is no feature like that. This is not a problem whith theme.
 *  [Joshua Sigar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alphaoide/)
 * (@alphaoide)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-set-page-template/#post-247477)
 * I might have had the same problem. You’re saying that there’s no dropdown menu
   for Page Template, right? To resolve it, go to Custom Fields box, select “_wp_page_template”
   from Key dropdown menu, and set the Value with the name of Page Template that
   you have. Click on “Add Custom Field” and the Page Template dropdown menu should
   re-appear.
 *  [converting2wp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/converting2wp/)
 * (@converting2wp)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-set-page-template/#post-248387)
 * Just to clarify. On a new installation (of v2.0.1) there is no “Key dropdown 
   menu”. Putting “_wp_page_template” in the “Key” textbox and something in the “
   Value” text area, and hitting the “Add Custom Field Button” will cause the drop
   down box to appear with “_wp_page_template” as a choice.
 * However, while that was my first attempt, I really don’t think that’s enough 
   information to get Custom Fields working (they don’t appear in the Key/Value/
   Action table on the page editing screen), and it’s not the answer to the question
   here. [And since I don’t need Custom Fields for anything else at the moment, 
   I’ll ignore that problem.]
 * THIS question, as I understand it, is how to get the page template menu to appear(
   on the right hand side of the page editing screen). The answer is relatively 
   simple. Create a new template, my_template_name.php, in the theme directory AND
   be sure it has the following lines at the top:
 * <?php
    /* Template Name: My Template Name */ ?>
 * The documentation IS clear, see
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages)
   but may not be “heard” correctly by those who are new to the whole process.
 * See also
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/52511](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/52511)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 5 participants
 * Last reply from: [converting2wp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/converting2wp/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-set-page-template/#post-248387)
 * Status: not resolved

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