Title: Single.php Broken
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Single.php Broken

 *  [brianfeister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianfeister/)
 * (@brianfeister)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/singlephp-broken/)
 * So I’ve copied a previously designed custom theme and am skinning it for a new
   project. When I click a post permalink, I get “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria”.
 * I thought that possibly this was because permalinks were bad so I updated them
   just to be sure.
 * I’ve also updated my .htaccess file just to be sure the correct WordPress mods
   were in there.
 * So what it seems is that somewhere in my code, there is a broken element, because
   when I switch to the default theme everything is fine. The strange thing is that
   when I copy and paste the contents of the default “single.php” I still have the
   same error (and layout bugs show that I’m looking at a the fresh non-cached single.
   php)… Not sure why it still won’t display the loop when I copy the default single.
   php, that’s baffling.
 * My code is below… any help?
 *     ```
       <?php get_header(); ?>
   
          <!-- MAIN PRIMARY: MAIN FOCUS AREA, MISSION STATEMENT, WHO WE ARE, ETC -->
          <div id="main_primary">
              <div class="content">
              <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
       		// check for thumbnail
       		$thumb = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'thumbnail', $single = true);
       		// check for thumbnail class
       		$thumb_class = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'thumbnail class', $single = true);
       		// check for thumbnail alt text
       		$thumb_alt = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'thumbnail alt', $single = true);
   
       	   ?>
   
                      <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
       				<div class="titlemeta">
                      <h2 class="post_title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
                      <span class="date icon_swap">
                              <span class="month"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></span>
                      </span>
                      <span class="comments_link icon_swap">
                              <a href="#main_secondary">
                              <?php comments_number('Add a Comment', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?>
                              </a>
                      </span>
                      <?php the_tags('<br /><span class="tags icon_swap">', ', ', '</span>'); ?>
   
                       <br class="clear" />
                 </div>
                              <div class="entry">
       							<?php // if there's a thumbnail
                                   if($thumb !== '') { ?>
                                       <div>
                                       <img src="<?php echo $thumb; ?>"
                                       class="<?php if($thumb_class !== '') { echo $thumb_class; } else { echo "post_thumb"; } ?>"
                                       alt="<?php if($thumb_alt !== '') { echo $thumb_alt; } else { echo the_title(); } ?>"
                                       />
                                       </div>
                                   <?php } // end if statement
   
                                   // if there's not a thumbnail
                                   else { echo ''; } ?>
   
                                      <?php the_content(); ?>
   
                                      <?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>
   
       								<div class="social_bookmarks">
   
                                      <h4 class="social_bookmarks_title">Was it good?  If so, tell the world:</h4>
   
                                      <ul class="icons">
                                              <li class="twitter_s">
                                              			<?php tweet_this($service, $tweet_text, $link_text, $title_text, $icon_file, $a_class, $img_class, $img_alt) ?>
                                                       <span>Twitter.com - Tweet This!</span>
   
                                              </li>
                                              <li class="facebook_s">
                                                      <a href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&h=<?php the_title(); ?>">
                                                              Facebook
                                                      </a>
                                                      <span>Facebook.com - Post on Facebook</span>
                                              </li>
                                              <li class="stumble_upon_s">
                                                      <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>">
                                                              Stumble Upon
                                                      </a>
                                                      <span>Stumble Upon.com - Stumble This!</span>
                                              </li>
                                              <li class="digg_s">
       												<a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>">
                                                       	Digg
       												</a>
                                                       <span>Digg.com - Digg It!</span>
                                              </li>
                                              <li class="delicious_s">
                                                      <a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>">
                                                              Delicious
                                                      </a>
                                                      <span>Del.icio.us - Add to Delicious</span>
                                              </li>
                                              <li class="reddit_s">
                                                      <a href="http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>">
                                                              Reddit
                                                      </a>
                                                      <span>Reddit.com - Add to Reddit</span>
                                              </li>
                                              <li class="technorati_s">
                                                      <a href="http://www.technorati.com/faves/?add=<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
                                                              Technorati
                                                      </a>
                                                      <span>Technorati.com - Add to Technorati</span>
                                              </li>
                                              <li class="newsvine_s">
                                                      <a href="http://www.newsvine.com/_tools/seed&save?u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&h=<?php the_title(); ?>">
                                                              Newsvine
                                                      </a>
                                                      <span>Newsvine.com - Add to Newsvine</span>
                                              </li>
                                              <li class="design_float_s">
                                                      <a href="http://www.designfloat.com/submit.php?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>">
                                                              Design Float
                                                      </a>
                                                      <span>Design Float.com - Float It!</span>
                                              </li>
                                      </ul>
                              </div>
   
                                      <div class="postmetadata top-border">
   
                                                      This entry was posted on  <?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?> and is filed under <?php the_category(', ') ?>. You can follow responses to this entry through this post's <span class="rss_inline"><?php comments_rss_link('RSS 2.0'); ?></span> feed.
   
                                                      <?php if (('open' == $post-> comment_status) && ('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
                                                              // Both Comments and Pings are open ?>
                                                              You can <a href="#respond">leave a response</a>, or <a href="<?php trackback_url(); ?>" rel="trackback">trackback</a> from your own site.
   
                                                      <?php } elseif (!('open' == $post-> comment_status) && ('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
                                                              // Only Pings are Open ?>
                                                              Responses are currently closed, but you can <a href="<?php trackback_url(); ?> " rel="trackback">trackback</a> from your own site.
   
                                                      <?php } elseif (('open' == $post-> comment_status) && !('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
                                                              // Comments are open, Pings are not ?>
                                                              You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
   
                                                      <?php } elseif (!('open' == $post-> comment_status) && !('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
                                                              // Neither Comments, nor Pings are open ?>
                                                              Both comments and pings are currently closed.
   
                                                      <?php } edit_post_link('Edit this entry.','',''); ?>
   
                                      </div>
   
                              </div><!-- END ENTRY -->
                      </div><!-- END POST -->
   
                      <div class="post_nav clear">
                              <div class="alignleft"><?php previous_post_link('< %link') ?></div>
                              <div class="alignright"><?php next_post_link('%link >') ?></div>
                      </div>
   
          </div>
       </div>
       <!-- END MAIN PRIMARY -->
   
       <!-- MAIN SECONDARY	 -->
       <div id="main_secondary" class="clear">
   
              <?php comments_template(); ?>
   
       </div>
       <!-- END MAIN SECONDARY -->
              <?php endwhile; else: ?>
   
                      <p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>
   
       <?php endif; ?>
   
       <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
   
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   

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 *  Thread Starter [brianfeister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianfeister/)
 * (@brianfeister)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/singlephp-broken/#post-1200519)
 * The plot thickens!
 * When I Commented out the existing call to the_loop and added the most basic version
   I got both “Sorry, doesn’t match query” error as well as the actual post.
 * This is because commenting out the first one failed if I understand correctly…
   The weird thing is that when I delete the page and put just the_loop I still 
   get the “Sorry” error.
 * So somehow the post content is only displaying the second time and only if the
   loop is called twice!
 *  Thread Starter [brianfeister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianfeister/)
 * (@brianfeister)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/singlephp-broken/#post-1200721)
 * Resolved! Wow, I should be a web designer or something 😛
 * Anyway, if you have this problem and can’t find any other explanation for it,
   check to make sure you’re not calling the_loop twice… the second call will fail
   which is why I was getting the “Sorry, query returned no results” error.
 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/singlephp-broken/#post-1200728)
 * Yup, the main loop should only be called once. But you can have other loops inside
   the main loop by using a new query, i.e., this will show the permalink to the
   most recent post in mycategory:
 * `<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=mycategory&showposts=1'); ?><?
   php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?><a href="<?php
   the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><?
   php endwhile; ?>`

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 * Last reply from: [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/singlephp-broken/#post-1200728)
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