Title: Multiple posts on single.php?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Multiple posts on single.php?

 *  Resolved [richarduk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richarduk/)
 * (@richarduk)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-posts-on-singlephp/)
 * I’m linking to a single post in the standard template i.e. single.php
 * Single.php needs to contain a loop that shows all the posts from the category‘
   oranges’.
 * I shall use something like if `is_single('17')` then show all the posts from 
   category ‘oranges’
 * Can anyone tell me how to do this loop that shows all the posts from the category‘
   oranges’?

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 *  [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-posts-on-singlephp/#post-1020647)
 * Hi
 * The file is called SINGLE.php for a reason – it is designed to show a _single_
   post. What you want to do is done in WP using a category page.
 * Please read these for approaches to accomplishing what you want:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts)
 * If what you want is comments after each post on the category page, you can paste
   the comment logic from single.php into your custom template.
 *  Thread Starter [richarduk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richarduk/)
 * (@richarduk)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-posts-on-singlephp/#post-1020786)
 * 🙂
 * Thanks for your reply.
 * For those that want to know how to get multiple posts on a single.php type page,
   it’s very, very easy.
 * The first line and the last line do the stuff, the rest is just an example Loop
   inbetween
 *     ```
       <?php if (is_single('990')) {?>
   
       <?php query_posts('showposts=200&cat=71&order=ASC'); ?>   
   
       <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>    
   
       <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
       <div class="<?php echo $oddpost; ?>" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"> 
   
       <?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>
   
       <span class="number-of-comments"> <?php comments_popup_link('', '1 Comment', '%  Comments', 'comment-link', 'Sorry, no further comments on this post'); ?></span> 
   
       <?php endif; ?>
       &nbsp;
   
       </div>         <?php /* COMMENT   end <div class="post"> END COMMENT */?>
   
       <?php endwhile; ?>
   
       <?php /* COMMENT
       Wordpress has finished fetching all the posts.  The Loop doesn't finish until     <?php endif; ?>   END COMMENT */?>
   
       <?php else : ?>
   
       <?php /* If no posts were found  then  do all the stuff between here and the final      <?php endif; ?>       below,  such as displaying an apology or a search form.    */?>
   
       <h2 class="not-found">Sorry! </h2>
       <p class="not-found">No posts were found - try something else
   
       <form method="get" id="search-form-not-found" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/">
       <fieldset>
       <input type="text" value="<?php echo wp_specialchars($s, 1); ?>" name="s" id="search-input-not-found" />
       <input type="submit" id="search-submit-not-found" value="Search" />
       </fieldset>
       </form>
   
       <?php /* This displays an apology and a search form if no posts were found. Delete it or just have a line of text if you want  */?>
   
       <?php endif; ?>     
   
       <?php /* End of The Loop  */?> 
   
        <?php }  ?>
       ```
   
 * You’ll need to create a unique single page to carry this code, otherwise none
   of your other posts will show (because they won’t be the single post with an 
   id of 990)
 * You’ll have to mess around, but basically in single.php you need to send different
   categories of posts to different single pages.
 * So in single.php we need to put something like this:
 *     ```
       <?php
   
       if (in_category(80)) {include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single-oranges.php');}  
   
       elseif (in_category(90)) {include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single-lemons.php');}  
   
       else {include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single-plums.php');}   /* Default template to use if  post is not in one of categories above */
   
       ?>
       ```
   
 *  [@mercime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercime/)
 * (@mercime)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-posts-on-singlephp/#post-1020788)
 * [@richarduk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richarduk/): WP is a powerful
   and flexible application which can pretty much be tweaked to show anything or
   everything. BUT as stvwlf said above, WP’s single.php is a WP template set up
   to show a simgle post. Multiple posts (excerpts or full content) could much easily
   have been implemented with:
 * > archive.php – The archive template. Used when a category, author, or date is
   > queried. Note that this template will be overridden by category.php, author.
   > php, and date.php for their respective query types.
 * per [http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Anatomy_of_a_Theme](http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Anatomy_of_a_Theme)
 *  Thread Starter [richarduk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richarduk/)
 * (@richarduk)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-posts-on-singlephp/#post-1020792)
 * I’m aware of that.
 * This was a specific request for a specific purpose. I appreciate your help, and
   I know that it’s impossible to tell if I’m a newbie or not, but there was reasoning
   behind the apparent madness.
 * The category page led to single posts. One of those single posts listed excerpts
   from another category.
 * It was necessary to do it this way.

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