Title: Changing a post’s template
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Changing a post’s template

 *  Resolved [archard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/archard/)
 * (@archard)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-a-posts-template/)
 * I’d like to make it so that the “full story” page, the one with the comment template,
   does not use the Main Index Template and rather uses another template, or preferably
   no template at all. Just the story without all the extra stuff I’ve added to 
   the Main Index Template. Is there a way to achieve this?

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 *  [saphod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saphod/)
 * (@saphod)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-a-posts-template/#post-573454)
 * Yes, there is.
 * For a single post view, the template “single.php” is used. If there is no “single.
   php”, the main index template will be used instead.
 * You should copy the main index template “index.php”, rename it to “single.php”
   and erase all the php-code that is not wanted… just as simple as that. 😀
 *  Thread Starter [archard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/archard/)
 * (@archard)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-a-posts-template/#post-573586)
 * Ah, thank you 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [archard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/archard/)
 * (@archard)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-a-posts-template/#post-573594)
 * Hmm now something very weird has happened. The post actually gets displayed twice,
   the first instance without any comments and the time stamp showing today. The
   second instance appears how it normally should.
    [ Here’s the page.
 *  Thread Starter [archard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/archard/)
 * (@archard)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-a-posts-template/#post-573612)
 * Nevermind, I got it all sorted out. Thanks again 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [archard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/archard/)
 * Last activity: [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-a-posts-template/#post-573612)
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