Title: page template loop
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# page template loop

 *  Resolved [hoss9009](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hoss9009/)
 * (@hoss9009)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-template-loop/)
 * So I have two page templates w/ the the_content tag on it, along with multiple
   pages on the site. I have 1 of the page templates set as my home page and the
   other as my posts page. I have two sample posts on the site and EVERY page has
   the two posts on them.
 * Why is this? What am I doing wrong?
 * [link](http://ericdmunoz.com/test/)

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-template-loop/#post-1160704)
 * > I have 1 of the page templates set as my home page and the other as my posts
   > page.
 * You set **pages** as your Home and Post pages – **not** page templates.
 * How many **custom** page templates do you have? Are they all different?
 *  Thread Starter [hoss9009](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hoss9009/)
 * (@hoss9009)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-template-loop/#post-1160870)
 * I have the home page as a template because it has a customer/different header.
   I designed index.php to be a 404, because technically, no one would ever see 
   it. But for some reason the blog post page (page.php) it goes to my index. So
   i created the post template to pull the posts. It pulls the posts, but now ([as you saw](http://ericdmunoz.com/test/))
   every one of the pages.
 * Any ideas? Should I post code?
 *  Thread Starter [hoss9009](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hoss9009/)
 * (@hoss9009)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-template-loop/#post-1160872)
 * Oh, also, the post page is a page template because it needs a specific header,
   too.
 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-template-loop/#post-1160876)
 * You are using WP in a perverse manner. WP handles 404 requests anyway, and it
   uses index.php (the one that’s in your theme folder, not the one in the WP root)
   for posts/pages, etc. Posts should NEVER be on page.php, that’s what index.php
   is for.
 * If you need a custom home page, create a template called main.php, welcome.php
   or something, then use that for your home page. Use index.php for your blog posts,
   and keep page.php for pages. Does this make sense?
 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-template-loop/#post-1160877)
 * And you can use conditional tags to create different headers for different pages.
   Read about that in the Codex:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags)
 *  Thread Starter [hoss9009](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hoss9009/)
 * (@hoss9009)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-template-loop/#post-1160967)
 * hahah perverse manner, hu? 😉
 * now what about the loop showing up on EVERY page?
 * This concerns me more…
 * ps. danke for the help thus far… changes are being made… i just wanna take care
   of this loop.
 *  Thread Starter [hoss9009](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hoss9009/)
 * (@hoss9009)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-template-loop/#post-1160969)
 * Ok i killed my post page template and fixed the conditional for the index. so
   now I have 1 page template (the home page), 1 index (looks like a page [via conditional
   tags], and the normal page.php.
 * Still looping the hell out the site… i’ve never had this problem before!!!
 * danke
    -eric
 *  Thread Starter [hoss9009](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hoss9009/)
 * (@hoss9009)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-template-loop/#post-1160986)
 * Ok… my recent posts tag in my sidebar was throwing it all off… i don’t get why,
   but i found some other script… thank you.

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