August 2012
Beginner to intermediate
288 pages
5h 56m
English
This chapter is aptly named “Single” because the template theme file used to display a single post is called single.php. The single.php template is used anytime a user is on a post page (or nonhierarchical custom post type). Typically, the difference between the single and page template that powers a single page is additional metadata (dates, author, comment number) and the Comments section.
What you’re about to learn
• Additional Template Tags for pulling post data
• How to display author information
• How to enable commenting on a post
• How to display the comment form and styling the comments template
The post template page has a structure similar to the rest of the site (Figure 10.1). The header, footer, and sidebar ...