Title: index.php verses page.php
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# index.php verses page.php

 *  [jon12345](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jon12345/)
 * (@jon12345)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-verses-pagephp-1/)
 * If I want my home page to look different to the internal pages, do I edit index.
   php and that will only alter the home page? Is page.php for all the static and
   blog pages and not the home page?
 * Thanks,
 * Jon

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 *  [lpe04](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lpe04/)
 * (@lpe04)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-verses-pagephp-1/#post-992371)
 * yes, you are right
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-verses-pagephp-1/#post-992372)
 * Also review [Template Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy)
   to see how WordPress determines that [Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Templates)
   to use.

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