Well, I actually did what I said in the reply before your last one, and the page template showed up in the Editor, but it was not an option when creating a page. It seems like the only thing that wasn’t happening, was the new pagehome.php needed to be listed somewhere (you might know, I don’t), for it to come up as an option under Page Attributes/Template/drop-down menu.
Is that difficult to do? Thanks.
