Page Template select list disappeared in wp 2.6

[matthijs]

After upgrading to 2.6 the box with the dropdown from which you can choose which template should be used for a page is gone in the admin page edit screen.

A temporarily solution (from the forums ​http://wordpress.org/support/topic/190138?replies=15 ) is to activate another theme, then immediately reactivate the normally used theme. Then the box with the drop down is back

[mrmist]

I can't reproduce this (in 2.6 or 2.6.1 beta).

What are the steps to reproduce? I see the template change box below the pages in both edit and new Page views.

Which version was the upgrade from?

[matthijs]

Well, there are no steps needed to reproduce it. I had upgraded from the previous version and now the template change box had disappeared. Changing the theme and back let the template change box re-appear. So it's a weird bug. Doing a clean install the bug is not there.

[mrmist]

Upgrading from which version?

[corischlegel]

FWIW, the problem seems to go back to 2.5.1 at least.

I haven't been able to reproduce this at will,but I've definitely seen it in several different installs, both virgin and upgrade. The workaround listed above seems to work for me.

[ceslava]

This did not worked for me, I just changed the wp-admin.css

1169. #poststuff .closed .inside {

display: none;}

All the avanced options will not worked because they couldn´t be displayed by AJAX. If you changed this CSS property you´ll find your drop downs menus.

[westi]

Works fine for me in current trunk.