Title: Rewriting single.php – wrong results
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Rewriting single.php – wrong results

 *  [Keytrin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keytrin/)
 * (@keytrin)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rewriting-singlephp-wrong-results/)
 * Hi all,
 * After having spent a week on building/customizing my website (I’m new to WP) 
   I realized that the most important thing isn’t working: my Blog. I thought since
   that what WP is about, it would be just an easy addition, so I saved it for last,
   and now I’m feeling stupid for doing so.
 * Problem:
    my template is coded in such a way that the single post page is just
   a full-width page, no sidebar, no widgets, no font-customization possible (unless
   I want to change the rest of my pages simultaneously).
 * What I have tried so far:
    – Google informed me I needed to manipulate my single.
   php file. So I did that. Copied/edited other themes templates etc.. then added
   my themes “right-sidebar” template into it and it worked; however, partially.
   The sidebar appears under my post. How can I get it next to my post + change 
   the background color and font?
 * I also downloaded the WP-Post-Template plugin to make new single-post templates(
   to select each time I post) but I can’t figure out how to get my preliminary 
   custom-template (saved in folder with index.php) to appear in WP. What am I doing
   wrong?
 * I hope this is somewhat understandable. I don’t know what info you might need.
 * Thanks in advance for your help!!!

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rewriting-singlephp-wrong-results/#post-6841648)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Include_as_Much_Information_as_Possible](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Include_as_Much_Information_as_Possible)
 * this all depends on your currently used theme.
 *  Thread Starter [Keytrin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keytrin/)
 * (@keytrin)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rewriting-singlephp-wrong-results/#post-6841654)
 * Theme is Tesseract.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rewriting-singlephp-wrong-results/#post-6841654)
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