Title: Single.php not working?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Single.php not working?

 *  [thetwilitekid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thetwilitekid/)
 * (@thetwilitekid)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/singlephp-not-working/)
 * Hey again,
    I posted earlier about getting a comments/post page rather than index.
   php to show up and I was told to put a file called “single.php” into my theme
   directory. Done. Did it.
 * However, it’s not showing up as my comments/post page. Am I doing something wrong
   here? Did I miss a step?
 * Thanks in advance!
 * P.S. If you dare to venture into my code, I apologize! It’s very sloppy right
   now, as I’m both a beginner and am in the process of building my site.
 * P.S. #2: My site is located at [http://www.pixelimplosion.com](http://www.pixelimplosion.com)
   btw

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/singlephp-not-working/#post-213536)
 * No need to post about the same issue in [two places](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/35316).
   Reading just your post above I couldn’t figure out what your initial problem 
   was…
    If you just saved your index.php as single.php – they will look the same.
   If you don’t want the sidebar in the single.php, don’t call it; i.e. delete the
   get_sidebar or whatever is calling it. (It still won’t be perfect because you’ll
   have to adjust the width of the content/post area in the CSS file. But with diligent
   work it can be done.)
 *  Thread Starter [thetwilitekid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thetwilitekid/)
 * (@thetwilitekid)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/singlephp-not-working/#post-213553)
 * Yeah – I guess I really didn’t need to post a new topic about this.. sorry.
 * However, I think you’re misunderstanding my situation. I didn’t just rename a
   file as “single.php” I made a different template without the sidebar (which is
   exactly what I wanted) and called it “single.php.” However, wordpress doesn’t
   seem to want to load that template hierarchically over index.php for comments,
   like it should.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/singlephp-not-working/#post-213554)
 * WP _does_ recognize the `page.php` if it is done properly and is in the right
   place.

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/singlephp-not-working/#post-213554)
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