Wordpress Page Template Hack

I have found that when I create a new page template in Wordpress, it doesn’t appear on the ‘Template’ drop down menu, to assign it to a specific page.  It is so frustrating to sit there and try everything and find that nothing gets your silly page template to show as available.

Here’s the Hack

1. Create the page template and save it.
2. Go to the ‘Themes’ area in Wordpress and deactivate and reactive your current theme.

Voila! This should force the new page template to appear on the ‘Template’ menu.

I took forever trying to figure this out so I understand how frustrating it can be now to know what to do and how silly this solution is.  Hope it helps!