Title: How to Edit Single Posts
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# How to Edit Single Posts

 *  Resolved [davyusa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davyusa/)
 * (@davyusa)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-edit-single-posts/)
 * Hello,
 * I’d like to edit/customize the single post, but I dont see the single-post.php
   
   anywhere in the Editor. I just see the index.php …
 * Is there a way to customize the posts themselves without changing the homepage?

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 *  Theme Author [Ryan Hellyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanhellyer/)
 * (@ryanhellyer)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-edit-single-posts/#post-5099862)
 * When no single-post.php is present, the templating system defaults back to the
   index.php file.
 * To edit the single-post.php template, simply copy the index.php file and rename
   it as single-post.php. Then you can edit it however you see fit.

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