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Asked: 2026-05-26T11:19:39+00:00

I’m running WordPress 3.2 and I need a conditional to test for a certain

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I’m running WordPress 3.2 and I need a conditional to test for a certain template. My template is a file called special_offer.php. The name of the template is “Special Offer”. I’ve tried both of the following:

is_page_template('special_offer.php');
is_page_template('Special Offer');

Neither of these work! The documentation clearly says that the parameter should be a string with the name of the file so I’m not sure what’s wrong. I know the function is at least partially working because if I don’t include a parameter, it returns true for any pages using templates (as expected).

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  1. Editorial Team

    AHA!
    I solved this by adding wp_reset_query() just before the conditional.

    I had already read warnings about many WP conditionals not working inside the loop. However, my conditional is NOT inside a loop. Turns out, it won’t work even AFTER the loop, which is where mine was. So you you need to reset the query before you call it.

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