Page attributes missing

Hi all I am new to wordpress but am loving it! and learning all the time, my php is pretty good as is my html/css.

I thought I would share with the world the simple fix for page attributes and why this goes missing when using or building a theme.

Whilst building my own theme I noticed that I could not assign a page a template whilst when using the defualt theme I could… so what was missing…

Simply open any theme page (using notepad, dreamweaver) ie. index.php from your theme and add these lines at the top of the page;
(Don’t worry you don’t need to know HTML or PHP) just copy the below and paste

<?php /*
Template Name: Index //this is the name which will appear in the list change as suits ie. if contact page Contact.
*/ ?>

That’s it, do this to each template page you want to appear and job done! making sure you change the Index to suit.

Hope that helps