Title: Page.php over Index.php
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Page.php over Index.php

 *  [silvatine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silvatine/)
 * (@silvatine)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagephp-over-indexphp/)
 * I installed WordPress a while ago and have been playing around with the themes.
   I wanted to create a theme but since I was relatively new to WP, I just took 
   the coding from the default theme and manipulated it. Somewhere along the line
   I must’ve done something wrong, because every time I load my website, the page.
   php template is loaded instead of my index.php.
 * My index.php:
 *     ```
       <?php get_header(); ?>
   
       <p class="header">Welcome
   
       To <i>Emergence of Delivery</i>, the official website and blog of the Youth Group of the Statesville Hmong Alliance Church.
   
       	<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   
       		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
       			<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
       				<p class="header"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
   
       				<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small>
   
       				<div class="entry">
       					<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
       				</div>
   
       				<p class="postmetadata">Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?>
   
       			</div>
   
       		<?php endwhile; ?>
   
       		<div class="navigation">
       			<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Previous Entries') ?></div>
       			<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Next Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
       		</div>
   
       	<?php else : ?>
   
       		<h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
       		<p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.
   
       		<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?>
   
       	<?php endif; ?>
   
       	</div>
   
       <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
   
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 * And my page.php:
 *     ```
       <?php get_header(); ?>
   
       		<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
       		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
       		<p class="header"><?php the_title(); ?>
   
       			<div class="entry">
       				<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;
       '); ?>
   
       				<?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'after' => '
       ', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>
   
       			</div>
       		</div>
       		<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
       	<?php edit_post_link('Edit this entry.', '', '
       '); ?>
       	</div>
   
       <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
   
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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