Template Dropdown not showing up within Wordpress administrator page

Question

I am working on a Wordpress-based project, and I just added a new template to the installation by uploading a template file. I was creating a new page that will use my new templ

Answer 1

I've had this problem for two days. This forum and a couple of tests later did the work. Here is what was missing for my part.

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Be sure that there is a style.css in your theme folder.

The style.css must have a valid comment section at the top of the file. This means at least this:

/*!
Template: your-theme
*/

If you're using SASS or LESS, make sure that you have a "!" just after declaring your comment. It's to prevent SASS or LESS to delete your comment section.

To be sure that everything is settled fine. You may go to "Appearance > Themes". After the listing of themes, if there is nothing, than everything should be fine. Otherwise, it'll be written "Broken Themes" and you'll still have some issues to solve.