Posts page is showing home page

Yes, I did modify it, mostly just css with a little bit of work in the templates to postition left/right menus where I wanted them. I have a separate template for the the home page, all other pages use the default template.

I have set it up exactly as described in the post from MichaelH.

Here’s index.php:

<?php get_header(); ?>

	<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">

	<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

			<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
				<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
				<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small>

				<div class="entry">
					<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
				</div>

				<p class="postmetadata">Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p>
			</div>

		<?php endwhile; ?>

		<div class="navigation">
			<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Previous Entries') ?></div>
			<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Next Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
		</div>

	<?php else : ?>

		<h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
		<p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
		<?php /* include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); */ ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

	</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

single.php:

<?php get_header(); ?>

	<div id="content" class="widecolumn">

	<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

		<div class="navigation">
			<div class="alignleft"><?php previous_post_link('&laquo; %link') ?></div>
			<div class="alignright"><?php next_post_link('%link &raquo;') ?></div>
		</div>

		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<h2><a href="<?php echo get_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

			<div class="entry">
				<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;</p>'); ?>

				<?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>

				<p class="postmetadata alt">
					<small>
						This entry was posted
						<?php /* This is commented, because it requires a little adjusting sometimes.
							You'll need to download this plugin, and follow the instructions:
							http://binarybonsai.com/archives/2004/08/17/time-since-plugin/ */
							/* $entry_datetime = abs(strtotime($post->post_date) - (60*120)); echo time_since($entry_datetime); echo ' ago'; */ ?>
						on <?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?> at <?php the_time() ?>
						and is filed under <?php the_category(', ') ?>.
						You can follow any responses to this entry through the <?php comments_rss_link('RSS 2.0'); ?> feed.

						<?php if (('open' == $post-> comment_status) && ('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
							// Both Comments and Pings are open ?>
							You can <a href="#respond">leave a response</a>, or <a href="<?php trackback_url(true); ?>" rel="trackback">trackback</a> from your own site.

						<?php } elseif (!('open' == $post-> comment_status) && ('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
							// Only Pings are Open ?>
							Responses are currently closed, but you can <a href="<?php trackback_url(true); ?> " rel="trackback">trackback</a> from your own site.

						<?php } elseif (('open' == $post-> comment_status) && !('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
							// Comments are open, Pings are not ?>
							You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

						<?php } elseif (!('open' == $post-> comment_status) && !('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
							// Neither Comments, nor Pings are open ?>
							Both comments and pings are currently closed.

						<?php } edit_post_link('Edit this entry.','',''); ?>

					</small>
				</p>

			</div>
		</div>

	<?php comments_template(); ?>

	<?php endwhile; else: ?>

		<p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>

<?php endif; ?>

	</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Thanks everyone for your help so far.

Managed to sort this problem out. The issue was that the template for the homepage was called home.php and I think the posts page returns true for is_home() and so the home.php template is called.

To fix the problem I changed the filename to homepage.php. Reading the template hierarchy document helped me make sense of it all.

cheers all!