Can you add a template to an already-existing page?

• A. Yes, retroactively
• B. No, only when adding a new page
• C. Yes, but only with permissions
• D. Yes, with a plugin

Answer: (B)

Templates are used to populate a page when you create it; they define the starting structure and content at creation time. Once a page exists, there isn’t a built-in way to apply a template to that existing page. To use a template’s format for content you already have, you’d typically create a new page from the template and copy or move the existing content into it. Permissions affect whether you can edit, but they don’t enable retroactively applying a template to an existing page. In short, you can’t add a template to a page that’s already there; templates are for new pages only.