Title: WP doesn’t recognize single.php
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WP doesn’t recognize single.php

 *  [benbackstarcom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benbackstarcom/)
 * (@benbackstarcom)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-doesnt-recognize-singlephp/)
 * WordPress will only open individual pages in the index.php template. I have tried
   for a long time, unsuccessfully, to get it to open them in my single.php template,
   but it refuses.
 * Interestingly, this seems to be happening in the default themes also (in fact,
   the single.php page I’m currently trying to get working might just be a copy 
   from the default theme).
 * Can anyone tell me why this is? And how to fix it?
 * Here is a text version of my single.php file: [http://backstar.com/wpsinglephp.txt](http://backstar.com/wpsinglephp.txt)
 * Note: single.php is in the same directory as my index.php template in its theme
   folder

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 *  [Steffen Jørgensen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jint/)
 * (@jint)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-doesnt-recognize-singlephp/#post-1037910)
 * Do you mean pages or posts?
    Pages should use the page.php file, and posts use
   the single.php file.
 *  Thread Starter [benbackstarcom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benbackstarcom/)
 * (@benbackstarcom)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-doesnt-recognize-singlephp/#post-1037934)
 * individual posts is what i mean
 *  [TheDoc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thedoc/)
 * (@thedoc)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-doesnt-recognize-singlephp/#post-1038107)
 * Anything on this? I’ve just run into the same problem.
 *  [tracyberna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tracyberna/)
 * (@tracyberna)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-doesnt-recognize-singlephp/#post-1038117)
 * I’d like to bump this thread up if I could – I’m having the exact same problem.
   Where could one start to look for the cause of this?
 *  [Peter Boosten](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pboosten/)
 * (@pboosten)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-doesnt-recognize-singlephp/#post-1038118)
 * did this just show up, or after for instance a theme change or maybe a specific
   post?
 * Peter
 *  [sciarrino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sciarrino/)
 * (@sciarrino)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-doesnt-recognize-singlephp/#post-1038119)
 * Have the same problem. WP just won’t recognize the singel.php page. Have the 
   latest version of WP, 2.8.5.
    Tried with multiple, and different singel.php files,
   but nothing seem to work. WP uses index for singel post no matter what I do.
 * Any suggestions out there?
 *  [sciarrino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sciarrino/)
 * (@sciarrino)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-doesnt-recognize-singlephp/#post-1038120)
 * This worked for me:
 * Deleted singel.php.
    copied singel.php from default theme. in theme editor i 
   deleted all content of the singel.php and copied in my own singel.php code.
 * Don’t know why, but it works.

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 * [individual post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/individual-post/)
 * [single](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/single/)
 * [single.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/single-php/)

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 * Last reply from: [sciarrino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sciarrino/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-doesnt-recognize-singlephp/#post-1038120)
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