Title: page.php vs single.php
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# page.php vs single.php

 *  [rvblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvblog/)
 * (@rvblog)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagephp-vs-singlephp/)
 * What is the purpose of each and how are they different from each other
 * Please give an example of when I should use page.php and another of when I should
   use single.php
 * thanks

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagephp-vs-singlephp/#post-130871)
 * single.php is the template for individual posts.
 * page.php is the template for the new “Page” feature in 1.5.
 *  Thread Starter [rvblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvblog/)
 * (@rvblog)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagephp-vs-singlephp/#post-130874)
 * thanks
 *  [dreamerzzz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dreamerzzz/)
 * (@dreamerzzz)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagephp-vs-singlephp/#post-131100)
 * I need more clarification on this for WP 1.5 … I think the new page feature has
   the ability to allow the new pages to have their own theme defined, rather than
   only having themes swapped for the entire site through the presentation tab settings(
   style-switcher) … but I haven’t been able to make this happen …. yet! Looks like
   I need to set up page.php files in my themes folder … anyone might offer more
   detail?
 * To restate … I’d like to be able to generate new pages, defining the theme for
   the new page …. not necessarily having the new page appear the same as whatever
   is set as the default theme per the presentation tab.
 * Thanks!
 *  [zerok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zerok/)
 * (@zerok)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagephp-vs-singlephp/#post-131101)
 * You mean something like this?
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Pages_can_use_Different_Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Pages_can_use_Different_Templates)
 *  [dreamerzzz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dreamerzzz/)
 * (@dreamerzzz)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagephp-vs-singlephp/#post-131104)
 * OK, I’m starting to get it ….
    So, I can define a template for the page associated
   through the Write Page administration panel. Now if I want it to have a specific
   style associated with it … not the same as the style.css in that theme’s folder…
   I can define another XXX.css that I call in the page template. Right?
 * You’d make my day if you’d push my nose in the typical template code where that
   is … and how to make it load a particular XXX.css file!
 *  [dreamerzzz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dreamerzzz/)
 * (@dreamerzzz)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagephp-vs-singlephp/#post-131106)
 * Getting a little closer to success …after doing a good bit of digging. Initially
   I could only get the dropdown Page Template choice menu when using the WP1.5 
   default theme … found out that you had to make sure and give the template a name…
   AND that name has to be enclosed in php thingies:
 * <?php
    /* Template Name: xyz */ ?>
 * So, I’d probably be OK now, but I wanted to go to the next step of having the
   Page use it’s own template AND a different stylesheet.
 * What I’m doing isn’t working … and I’m sure I’m not referencing the desired stylesheet
   correctly.
 * If I have another stylesheet … xyz.css in a theme folder, how/what in the xyz.
   php invokes that stylesheet?
 * Just need a little push folks … .
 * THANKS!
 * Jeff
 *  [Ryan Boren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryan/)
 * (@ryan)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagephp-vs-singlephp/#post-131107)
 * Try something like this:
 * `<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/page.
   css" type="text/css" media="screen" />`
 * If you want to use the same header.php as the other templates, you’ll probably
   need to modify it to do something like this:
 * `<?php if (is_page()): ?>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory');?
   >/page.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> <?php else ?> <link rel="stylesheet"
   href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
   <?php endif; ?>
 * If you want custom stylesheets for several differnet pages, you’ll need something
   like such:
 * `if (is_page('about-page')):
    // do stuff else if (is_page('links-page')): //
   do stuff ... else: // default stuff endif;
 * is_page() can accept a page id, a page name, or a sanitized URI-safe version 
   of the page name.
 *  [dreamerzzz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dreamerzzz/)
 * (@dreamerzzz)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagephp-vs-singlephp/#post-131115)
 * This worked!
 * But, I think I’m trying toooooo hard to do something that I could just create
   two WP blogs to handle the what I want to do!
 * Maybe the next rev will be more idiot friendly with setting up the page pieces.

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