Title: styling permalink page?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# styling permalink page?

 *  [jthomasc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jthomasc/)
 * (@jthomasc)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-permalink-page/)
 * I have edited the pages in my active template folder and in the default template
   folder and it appears as if the page that you get to from a post header link 
   i.e. the /?p=xxxx pages are using the header and comments file from my template
   folder but the actual entry is being styled by a file I don’t have access to.
 * I have done a sitewide search for the class=”widecolumn” that this page uses 
   and I have removed that class from all the files I have access to yet it is still
   showing up.
 * This also contains the placement of the navigation links which is something I
   would also like to edit. If someone could point me to where this is coming from
   I would appreciate it because like I said it does not appear to be a file I have
   on the server or I’m crazy.
 * Thanks.
    J.

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 *  [oriecat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oriecat/)
 * (@oriecat)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-permalink-page/#post-217929)
 * Can you share your url with us?
 *  Thread Starter [jthomasc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jthomasc/)
 * (@jthomasc)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-permalink-page/#post-217932)
 * Ok, this is weird.
 * It is my understanding that if a file is not in my template directory the next
   stop is the default directory. Now I know from the docs that single.php was the
   file that should have been the file I needed to edit which was edited in the 
   default folder.
 * So I took that exact same file and saved it into my template folder and bam now
   its using it. So there is no longer an issue but man that was driving me nuts,
   why did it not see that file in the default directory? The world may never know.
 * Thanks for the response though, the url must remain a secret now, simply because
   its a real mess. Heh.
 * Thanks anyway.
    J.
 *  [oriecat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oriecat/)
 * (@oriecat)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-permalink-page/#post-217933)
 * No, your theme can only use whatever files are listed in that theme. You cannot
   use files from other themes. Not sure where you might have gotten that idea?
 *  Thread Starter [jthomasc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jthomasc/)
 * (@jthomasc)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-permalink-page/#post-217984)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development](http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development)
 * comments.php
    The comments template. If not present, comments.php from the “default”
   Theme is used.
 * single.php
    The single post template. Used when a single post is queried. For
   this and all other query templates, index.php is used if the query template is
   not present.
 * Thats where I got that idea. I was wrong that it went after the single.php file
   in the default theme folder, apparently it goes after index.php but it still 
   doesnt make sense why that code was showing up because it wasn’t in index.php
   either.

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 * Last reply from: [jthomasc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jthomasc/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-permalink-page/#post-217984)
 * Status: not resolved

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