Title: Single Posts Not Displaying
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Single Posts Not Displaying

 *  [jacksonhoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacksonhoose/)
 * (@jacksonhoose)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-posts-not-displaying/)
 * Hey guys.
 * I was working locally on a wordpress theme. I just uploaded it to my webspace
   and some of my themes are slightly screwed up. What I’m trying to sort out right
   now is my single post template. I haven’t changed anything from when I was working
   locally and it was performing fine. Now, on my webspace the single.php template
   isn’t working. When I try to view a single post, the header and footer are included
   but the posts are “Not Found”.. even when I am in the dashboard and click view
   post… no post is displayed.
 * I didn’t change my loops at all or anything… anyone have any hunches as to why
   this would have broken?
 * thanks

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-posts-not-displaying/#post-2046124)
 * Sounds like your single.php template file has some kind of syntax error or bug.
   If you have access to your server’s error log, that might give you some clues
   as to the exact problem.
 *  [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * (@chipbennett)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-posts-not-displaying/#post-2046140)
 * Without seeing your template file(s), we won’t be able to provide much in the
   way of specific help.
 *  Thread Starter [jacksonhoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacksonhoose/)
 * (@jacksonhoose)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-posts-not-displaying/#post-2046164)
 * i changed my URL strucutre to %pagename%… could that have any impact?
 * I tried uploading the old Twenty Ten Single-Loop and Single.php and that didn’t
   effect anything
 *  Thread Starter [jacksonhoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacksonhoose/)
 * (@jacksonhoose)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-posts-not-displaying/#post-2046166)
 * sure enough…. it seems like if i am using the default ugly permalinks my single
   posts work… what do i have to do to get single to work with pretty perma links?..
   or more specifically a %pagename% structure?
 *  [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * (@chipbennett)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-posts-not-displaying/#post-2046167)
 * [See the Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Structure_Tags)
 * First: you need to use `%postname%`, not `%pagename%`
 * Second, as per the Codex: **Starting Permalinks with %postname% is strongly not
   recommended for performance reasons**
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-posts-not-displaying/#post-2046168)
 * There is no `%pagename%` permalink tag. Perhaps you need to review [Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)?
 *  Thread Starter [jacksonhoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacksonhoose/)
 * (@jacksonhoose)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-posts-not-displaying/#post-2046169)
 * hmm…
 * %pagename% was working for me. I actually have it working now by changing the
   permalink structure to %pagename%/%postname%
 * i’ll check the permalinks info at the codex though.
 * thanks ya’ll
 *  [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * (@chipbennett)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-posts-not-displaying/#post-2046172)
 * `%pagename%` is the _absolute worst possible_ permalink structure, with respect
   to performance. You will force mod_rewrite into verbose mode on every page hit.
 *  Thread Starter [jacksonhoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacksonhoose/)
 * (@jacksonhoose)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-posts-not-displaying/#post-2046179)
 * yikes!!!! well im at %postname% now.
 * blessings
 *  [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * (@chipbennett)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-posts-not-displaying/#post-2046181)
 * Be sure to read the linked Codex page.
 * `%postname%` is the _second-worst possible_ permalink structure.

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-posts-not-displaying/#post-2046181)
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