Title: Template Help
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Template Help

 *  [b3ndy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/b3ndy/)
 * (@b3ndy)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-help-3/)
 * Hello everyone,
 * Firstly this is a great forum, I have been using it loads for all my wordpress
   fun! Apologies if this question has been posted before, I did do a pretty good
   search and didn’t manage to find anything.
 * I am trying to create a wordpress skin for my companies Press Releases, what 
   I really want to do is have two pages, a title page listing the story title and
   date, then, a page that displays the full story.
 * This could be the simplest template ever, but I am a complete php n00b I am afraid.
 * I am using the following code on the main template:
 * <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
 * <?php the_date(”,'<h3>’,'</h3>’); ?><div class=”post” id=”post-<?php the_ID();?
   >”>
    <h3 class=”storytitle”>/<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title();?
   >
   </h3>
    </div>
 * <?php endwhile; else: ?>
    <?php _e(‘Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.’);?
   > <?php endif; ?>
 * which is displaying the titles, but how do I create a second page that displays
   the full story when the title is clicked?
 * Many thanks for all your help,
 * Ben

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-help-3/#post-388942)
 * If by skin you meant a _theme_ (we don’t like the word “skin” 😉 – then simply
   create a single.php template file with a Loop that has the_content tag. (see 
   how it is done in the default theme and many other themes)
 *  Thread Starter [b3ndy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/b3ndy/)
 * (@b3ndy)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-help-3/#post-388979)
 * Hi, thanks for the reply, my bad, I mean theme!
 * Looking at the default theme, but still a little confused as how to do this! 
   Any advice?
 * Thanks,
 * Ben
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-help-3/#post-388982)
 * It is quite simple, see the Template Hierarchy:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy)
   Whenever a specific template file is missing – WP falls back to index.php. Since
   in your index (aka main template) you don’t have `the_content` tag – it will 
   never display the text of a post. For displaying a single post, use/create a 
   template file called `single.php`. WP will do the rest: it recognizes the specially
   named template files.

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 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-help-3/#post-388982)
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