Title: Problem with index.php when showing single post
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problem with index.php when showing single post

 *  [seekingsolace](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seekingsolace/)
 * (@seekingsolace)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-indexphp-when-showing-single-post/)
 * I have a template that I uploaded that has no single.php file or page.php file;
   all it has is comments.php, index.php, and style.css.
 * There’s code at the bottom of every post (in the loop) in index.php to add a 
   little icon and the number of comments posted so far. This works great when you
   select a category; all the posts in “News” show “[icon] Comments (0)” at the 
   bottom. But when you look at a page by itself or a post by itself, all it displays
   is the icon, with no text, no matter how many comments have been posted.
 * The code at the bottom of the loop is as follows:
 *     ```
       <div class="meta"><?php _e("Filed under:"); ?> <?php the_category(',') ?> by <?php the_author() ?> at <?php the_time() ?> <?php wp_link_pages('before= | '); ?> <?php edit_post_link(__('Edit This')); ?></div>
       <?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>
       <div class="feedback">
       <?php comments_popup_link(__('Comments (0)'), __('Comments (1)'), __('Comments (%)')); ?>
       </div>
       <?php endif; ?>
       ```
   
 * The class “feedback” in style.css reads like this:
 *     ```
       .feedback { padding: 0 0 0 16px; background: url(images/tulipicon.gif) no-repeat 0px 1px; height: 15px; font-size: 10px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; margin-bottom: 5px; }
       ```
   
 * So, the icon is displayed through the style class, rather than hard-coded. But
   I can’t imagine why that would interfere with displaying the text in a single
   post view, especially since the Template Hierarchy says it should go right back
   to the index file, since no single.php exists.
 * Any ideas?

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 * Last reply from: [seekingsolace](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seekingsolace/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-indexphp-when-showing-single-post/)
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