Title: Pages using different template
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Pages using different template

 *  [snakerboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snakerboy/)
 * (@snakerboy)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-using-different-template/)
 * Hello, I’m having a slight issue with my custom pages. Im trying to setup a few
   different templates to use for an about page, portfolio etc
 * I have just read: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Pages_can_use_Different_Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Pages_can_use_Different_Templates)
 * I found:
 * “WordPress can be configured to use different Templates for different Pages. 
   Toward the bottom of the Write->Write Page administration panel is a drop-down
   labeled “Page Template”. From there you can select which Template will be used
   when displaying this particular Page.”
 * I don’t see a dropdown named Page Template, I’m not going blind but it really
   isnt there.
 * Anyone got any idea?

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 *  [jennmiller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jennmiller/)
 * (@jennmiller)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-using-different-template/#post-149840)
 * It’s in the “Custom Fields” box, but I’m just figuring out how to use it myself.
 *  [Cyndy Otty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceo/)
 * (@ceo)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-using-different-template/#post-149855)
 * On the “Write Page” page – scroll down to Page Options, the dropdown is the first
   thing there.
 * And, for the record, I am blind – and I see it. 😉
 *  [Minna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minna/)
 * (@minna)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-using-different-template/#post-149857)
 * jennmiller, you have to have templates ready to get them in the dropdown list.
   You put
    `<?php /* Template Name: My template */ ?> at the beginning of a php
   file and then write how you want the page to appear (functions, plain text, html,
   the usual).
 * Oh, and you’ll probably want `<?php get_header(); ?>` at the very beginning (
   well, after the template name “declaration”) and `<?php get_footer(); ?>` at 
   the end, too
 *  [jennmiller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jennmiller/)
 * (@jennmiller)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-using-different-template/#post-149872)
 * I wasn’t quite sure where to put the new php file, but it’s working for me in
   each of the theme folders. Thanks for the tip!
 *  Thread Starter [snakerboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snakerboy/)
 * (@snakerboy)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-using-different-template/#post-149974)
 * Minna, I guess if I dont have any templates Im not going to see the dropdown?
   oh and where do these templates files have to live?
 *  [Minna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minna/)
 * (@minna)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-using-different-template/#post-149977)
 * At least that’s what I noticed. Before I made a template, there wasn’t the “corrent”
   drop down (as jennmiller noted, there is a custom field for templates in *that*
   drop down).
 * Anyway, you put the templates in the theme folder (preferably of the activated
   theme 🙂 ) where you have headers and footers and singles and things (if you 
   do)
 *  Thread Starter [snakerboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snakerboy/)
 * (@snakerboy)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-using-different-template/#post-150016)
 * Righto Minna, thanks for your help. The codex was helpful, but it didn’t half
   throw me off.

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