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WordPress WordPress Theme Development Building Page Templates in WordPress Creating Custom Page Templates in WordPress

samiff
samiff
31,206 Points
Posted by samiff
samiff
31,206 Points

WP Version 4.9 Only Page Template Bug Workaround

Anyone following this course while using WordPress version 4.9 might run into a bug where they are unable to see the dropdown menu for page templates. This is the official bug thread https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/42573

A temporary fix until this issue is patched in the future would be to include the following code in the functions.php file: https://gist.github.com/westonruter/6c2ca0e5a4da233bf4bd88a1871dd950

1 Answer

Konrad Traczyk
Konrad Traczyk
22,287 Points
Konrad Traczyk
Konrad Traczyk
22,287 Points

Hi,

Simpler way to deal with it is update version of your theme in styles.css, or set WP_DEBUG to true. You don't need additional code this way.

/*!
* Theme Name: Example
* Author: Example
* Author URI: http://example.pl
* Version: 1.7 <-- This one
*/