Page Template dropdown missing from Advanced Options

To be a little more specific, I’ve created a 2nd page template (snarfer.php) and added the follow code to the file:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Snarfer
*/
?>

Shouldn’t this cause the Page Template dropdown to appear in the edit page advanced options?

I’m having this problem too…. can anyone help??

ya, i agreeeeeee, the new version sucks.

must be nice to offer free software that everyone is using yet provide no support at all.

nice business model

I had similar problem with page template & page author not displaying.
I checked all of my settings and found under Design that my current theme was not selected. I selected it and the above options appeared.

Apart from that the only other bug I have found using 2.5.1 is that the Not Found 404 page will not display unless you choose a Posts page from the dropdown option under the Readings Settings. Otherwise it just displays the last page from your Manage Pages list.

I had this problem, too. Turns out the theme I downloaded didn’t have the correct PHP comment in the archive.php file. If you’re trying to create an archive and have this problem, open the archive.php file in your theme’s directory and insert the following code right at the top of the file:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Archive
*/
?>

Then refresh the edit window and the page template drop-down will be there.

Hope this helps! (I emailed this particular theme author and he should fix his theme, but I’m sure his isn’t the only one with this issue.)

-Erica

Following solution work for me, we need to overwrite default Page template page.php and save it.

Append following code at top of page.php

<?php
/*
Template Name: Anyname
*/
?>

Detail please check here
https://www.mkyong.com/blog/page-template-dropdown-missing-in-wordpress-25/