How to Determine/Set Default Template for Posts

  • geoffschultz

    (@geoffschultz)


    14 years, 5 months ago

    I just took over managing a site which uses WordPress to store research articles. There are a bunch of templates defined. They either want me to modify the current template that’s being used or switch to another one. I can’t find anywhere that you can set the default template which is used or to find out which one is being used. Any help for this novice would greatly appreciated.

    — Geoff

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Template or theme?

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

    Thread Starter geoffschultz

    (@geoffschultz)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Template. There are literally 66 templates defined, many of which are unused, for various parts of the website. Most are very similar and trying to figure out which one is being used is quite difficult.

    There must be some way to define/see which template is used, by default, to display posts.

    — Geoff

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Category template file names should all use the category- prefix. Single posts will use post.php. You should be able to find a list of standard templates in http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

    The rest are likely to be custom Page templates and/or included files.

    Thread Starter geoffschultz

    (@geoffschultz)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    As it turns out, this site is using single.php to display a single post. I found this out from a developer and I still don’t have any idea how I would have determined this if I wasn’t able to have asked this.

    After typing the above, I decided to search the site for ‘single.php’ and found that this was defined in \wp-admin\includes\file.php

    which isn’t described in the Theme_Development link above.

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