Making the templates was basically the first thing i tried to do. When that didn’t work I did try to create a whole new environment in a separate folder, downloading trellis and bedrock again and installing sage 9 and all that. When that was booted up, first thing I did was create a custom template and go to page editor in wordpress, but it still didn’t show up. So this issue seems to occur in any Roots 9 site I create.
I will note that the latest version of Sage 8 (8.5.3) seems to work fine. I initially had that installed, but wanted to use browsersync, blade, and other features that came with Sage 9, so I switched. I didn’t catch what Wordpress version was installed when I was running Sage 8 though…