Parent theme templates not working in child theme

That shouldn’t be the case. I use a child theme of 2011 on VoodooPress, and have templates available to select which reside on both the parent and child themes.

If you add a template to the child theme to make the dropdown appear, does it only include templates from the child, or do the templates form the parent and child appear?

Yes. Only from the child theme, very confusing. I have used other parent themes/ frameworks before and have never run into this problem. Now I am developing a more streamlined one for myself and am not sure what the issue is here.

Here is one of my templates:

<?php
/** Template Name: Full Width */
update_option('current_page_template','temp-full-width');

get_header(); ?>

<div id="primary">
    <div id="content" role="main">
        <?php the_post(); ?>

        <?php get_template_part( 'content', 'page' ); ?>

    </div><!-- #content -->

    <div class="clear"><!-- --></div>
</div><!-- #primary -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>

One thing that I am curious that might be the problem is the get_template_part as those files reside within the parent theme. Not sure if that is indeed the problem but I am at my wits end with this.

Just to explain it a little better as my last post is a little confusing, here is an example of my directory:

/wp-content/
     /themes/
          /parent/
               ... other theme files are here ...
               template-liquid.php
               template-blog2.php
               template-magazine.php
         /child/
                ... other theme files are here ...
               template-full-width.php

So when editing the page the only template in the drop down is Full Width. Thanks again for the help.

So when editing the page the only template in the drop down is Full Width.

That sounds like the parent theme is not child-theme-friendly. You should have access to all of the template files in the parent theme as well as an unique templates in the child theme.

Ok, figured it out. I was looking at the CODEX to see if it said anything after @esmi saying the theme wasn’t child-theme-friendly. And I saw this line:

Template. (required) directory name of parent theme, case-sensitive.
NOTE. You have to switch to a different theme and back to the child theme when you modify this line.

At one point I read the ‘case-sensitive’ part so I changed this and forgot to refresh switch themes. I did this and now all templates are visible. Stupid mistake! Thanks guys!

Ok, figured it out. I was looking at the CODEX to see if it said anything after @esmi saying the theme wasn’t child-theme-friendly. And I saw this line:

Template. (required) directory name of parent theme, case-sensitive.
NOTE. You have to switch to a different theme and back to the child theme when you modify this line.

At one point I read the ‘case-sensitive’ part so I changed this and forgot to refresh switch themes. I did this and now all templates are visible. Stupid mistake! Thanks guys!

No problem ??