Title: Blog posts not using single.php
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Blog posts not using single.php

 *  [rrkingcool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rrkingcool/)
 * (@rrkingcool)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-posts-not-using-singlephp/)
 * My posts started using something else besides the custom post templates I created
   or the single.php by default and now they look wrong. (should have white background,
   one picture, etc.) I can’t figure out what happened or what they are now using.
   I edit single.php and nothing happens. Any ideas? I’ve deactivated plugins etc
   to get to the bottom of it with no success.
 * Sample post that should be using single.php but doesn’t seem to be.
    [http://www.halseyschools.com/2013/04/they-are-just-playing/](http://www.halseyschools.com/2013/04/they-are-just-playing/)

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-posts-not-using-singlephp/#post-3660709)
 * the single post has some validation errors [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.halseyschools.com%2F2013%2F04%2Fthey-are-just-playing%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.halseyschools.com%2F2013%2F04%2Fthey-are-just-playing%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0)
   which might be causing the formatting problem
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_a_Website](http://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_a_Website)
 * when testing any changes to single.php, are you taking into account that your
   site is using a caching plugin?
 * what happens if you replace single.php with an unedited version?
 * possibly try to add a html comment with the template name to each template of
   the theme to get more clarity which templates are used;
 * general, per template hierarchy, if single.php is broken or non-existent, index.
   php would show the single post: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy)
 *  Thread Starter [rrkingcool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rrkingcool/)
 * (@rrkingcool)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-posts-not-using-singlephp/#post-3660792)
 * Thanks. It’s using index.php for all posts. I simply copied the code from my 
   single.php post and now it displays correctly. But I still don’t know why it 
   won’t use the single.php or the two templates I created using _custom post template_.
   This all has been working fine for many months. Don’t know what changed.
 * Thanks for your help.

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 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-posts-not-using-singlephp/#post-3660792)
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