[wp-testers] page template

Michael E. Hancock mhancock at us.net
Mon Mar 17 20:48:20 GMT 2008


From: "Kirk M" <kmb42vt at gmail.com>
> Kristin Andrus Pishdadi wrote:
>> Strange,
>>
>> I downloaded the theme you mentioned to test because it was not showing 
>> up.
>>
>> It worked,
>>
>> then i switched back to my theme and the page templates showed up.
>>
>> It seems like it's not looking for them on the fly, but only when you
>> activate the theme, so if you make a page template you have to 
>> re-activate
>> your theme to get it to work ?
>>
>>
>>
> I hate to say this but that's a very interesting question. Up to now I've 
> never needed to come up with my own page template so I really couldn't 
> say. Perhaps someone else here might be better able to answer if WP 
> actually looks for new page templates on the fly. I don't think it would 
> since that would mean having some sort constant check going on to check of 
> the status of your theme for any changed files. Something akin to a 
> built-in cron job for checking theme templates. Re-activating your theme 
> for any new page templates to be picked up is probably the best bet for 
> now.

Taken from http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates

NOTE: In order to access the Page Template selector, there must be at least 
one custom Page Template available in the active theme


Regards.

Michael







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