Title: Does editing Single Post really do anything?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Does editing Single Post really do anything?

 *  [megagents](https://wordpress.org/support/users/megagents/)
 * (@megagents)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-editing-single-post-really-do-anything/)
 * I’ve tried to edit and delete things in that file but nothing happens, it’s like
   everything in single.php can be erased and it’ll have no effect on the site at
   all. All I’m trying to do is stop my name from being a permalink when I make 
   a post but it still goes to [http://mydoamin.com/author/Robert/](http://mydoamin.com/author/Robert/)
   even though there’s no link for it.

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 *  [Cal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themesbycal/)
 * (@themesbycal)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-editing-single-post-really-do-anything/#post-618458)
 * Yes, editing single.php does do something…..You’re editing the way things look
   when you look at a single post. So if you click on a post title and you’re looking
   at one post with the comment area below it that’s using single.php
 * do you have a link to your site so i can see what you mean?

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

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 * Last reply from: [Cal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themesbycal/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-editing-single-post-really-do-anything/#post-618458)
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