Title: Single post navigation
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Single post navigation

 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-navigation/)
 * How to get the navigation that Matt has on his weblog, such as:
    [http://photomatt.net/archives/2004/05/11/plugins-from-css-guru/](http://photomatt.net/archives/2004/05/11/plugins-from-css-guru/)
   notice the <<Offline and The Google Blog >> at the top. I know the tags to use,
   just do not know where to put them, since the documentation online (on this web
   site) reads “Generally you might want to use this only in single-post templates.“.
   But I mainly have one index.php (other than the comments template and syndication).
   Where is the single post template?

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 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-navigation/#post-50885)
 * Index.php is the only template. Depending on what parameters are passed to it,
   it display the category page, the individual entry page etc.
    To get the navigation
   you wanted, you will need to edit index.php to include the next, previous tags
   that you already know about `if ($single)`
 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-navigation/#post-50887)
 * `if ($single) { <php display the nav links>; }`
    where display the nav links 
   is the bunch of tags you want to use. put this in index.php just before the part
   where the posts are displayed, so it displays on the top of the content for the
   individual entries.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-navigation/#post-50888)
 * Where the `if ($single)` will go? Tks!
 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-navigation/#post-50891)
 * anon, what are the tags that you want displayed on index.php for the individual
   entries? I could properly describe what it takes if I knew that…
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-navigation/#post-50894)
 * I want to be able to browse previous and next entries when viewing a single entry.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-navigation/#post-50898)
 * I got it to work. Where are the references, so I can know about `$single`, for
   posts, for example. Are there any other tags for archives, categories, etc, like
   the `$single` one? Tks!
 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-navigation/#post-50903)
 * The standard, or at least most useful resources are :
    These forums, and the 
   search tool The wiki at [http://wiki.wordpress.org](http://wiki.wordpress.org)(
   check out the usermanual under construction, you can add to the wiki too) The
   docs at [http://wordpress.org/docs](http://wordpress.org/docs) That said, there
   is no place the $single and $cat tags etc are listed. You have $name and/or $
   p for single posts ($single == $name or $p) $cat for categories $m for date based(
   monthly) archives, like index.php?m=200405 You can more of these by turning off
   permalinks, and clicking on the various links to find whats appended to index.
   php in those links, which is what I mostly did.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-navigation/#post-50904)
 * Thanks!
 *  [willm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willm/)
 * (@willm)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-navigation/#post-50935)
 * I imagine a lot of MT switchers will be wanting this functionality. Any chance
   of making this post sticky?
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-navigation/#post-50964)
 * Actually, the README.HTML that comes with the WP is pretty good. It is just that
   you need to have some knowledge of PHP to understand it. Take a look, it is very
   nice.

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