Title: Template problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Template problem

 *  [scillyman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scillyman/)
 * (@scillyman)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-problem-2/)
 * I have created a template page called ‘mainpage.php’ and selected this as the‘
   Templates’ option when creating a new page for my site.
    However, when the new
   page is viewed in the browser, it appears as the default theme page template 
   and not the template ‘mainpage.php’. Puzzled… can anyone advise?. Thanx

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-problem-2/#post-337122)
 * You will never see the “mainpage.php” in your address bar – just the title of
   your Page, e.g.
    example.com/blog/newpage If you mean the layout is not different
   than the default Page template (aka page.php) – did you edit it and the stylesheet
   to have a different look?
 *  Thread Starter [scillyman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scillyman/)
 * (@scillyman)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-problem-2/#post-337128)
 * Originally there was no actual page.php template present in my chosen theme ‘
   Falling leaves’ which I believe is the default for pages. So I tried to create
   one and called it mainpage.php and chose this as the template for one of my pages.
   Should there have been a supplied pages template with the theme do you think?.

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-problem-2/#post-337128)
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