Title: Single Post problems
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Single Post problems

 *  [noobie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noobie/)
 * (@noobie)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-problems-2/)
 * Hi
    I’m having a couple of problems getting single posts to appear as, well, 
   single posts.
 * I have both an index.php file and a single.php file but WP seems to ignore single.
   php and always uses index.php for single posts.
 * Issue is that it’s not printing just the single post when the user clicks through
   from the list of posts – it’s printing ALL posts.
 * Any suggestions where I might be going wrong? Index.php and single.php are just
   the standard simple ones, nothing clever added or taken away.

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-problems-2/#post-549987)
 * Try using the single.php from the default theme.
 *  Thread Starter [noobie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noobie/)
 * (@noobie)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-problems-2/#post-549988)
 * Hi
 * Yes I gave that a go but it’s still showing multiple posts (that’s when I tried
   copying the default single.php over my own one and also even when I pasted it
   over the index.php!).
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-problems-2/#post-550000)
 * If you resort to the default theme do you see the problem?
 * Is the theme editor seeing your index.php as “Main Index Template” and single.
   php as “Single Post?”
 *  Thread Starter [noobie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noobie/)
 * (@noobie)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-problems-2/#post-550003)
 * Yes – still got the problem.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-problems-2/#post-550004)
 * Link to see the problem?
 *  [rudolf45](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudolf45/)
 * (@rudolf45)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-problems-2/#post-550029)
 * There was a similar thread earlier (just can’t find it) and all the trouble was
   caused by wrong permalink settings. What happens if you set the permalinks to
   the default?
 *  Thread Starter [noobie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noobie/)
 * (@noobie)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-problems-2/#post-550041)
 * Ah that did it! Thanks rudolf45!
 * I think I saw that post in passing but didn’t think it could be the solution 
   as it had all worked fine up to now (just upgraded to 2.1).
 * Thanks again.

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 * 7 replies
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 * Last reply from: [noobie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noobie/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-problems-2/#post-550041)
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