Alternate templates not showing up in the template dropdown

Question

I have a page.special.liquid (alternate template) under templates folder in my theme file. However when I go to 'Add Page', Select a template option, this template is not showing up. What is going wrong here? Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

This problem occurs when you are working in the non published theme. To solve this problem Create a template of same name in the currently active(published) theme. Then it will list in the non active theme's admin.

Answer 2

If you are not working on the currently published theme, make sure you have an alternative template with the same name (in your case page.special.liquid) in the active theme.