Question

I’ve created a WordPress template for a page. The template is called koebenhavn.php. It’s located in a subdirectory in my themes directory. The code looks like this:

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

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php
    query_posts('cat=3');
    while (have_posts()) : the_post();
    the_content();
    endwhile;
?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

When I go to the Admin-panel and choose the page, which I want to use this template on, and I press the blue “Update”-button, it switches back to “Default Template” automatically. I’ve never experienced this before.

I’ve tried adding the template on already existing pages as well as newly created pages.

Answer 1

The reason for this behaviour was caused by the name of the file. I was using the Danish letter, ø, in the filename københavn.php.

There’s probably a way to work around this, but for the easy way out, just write koebenhavn.php instead.