Title: Single.php repeating content and comments
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Single.php repeating content and comments

 *  Resolved [Tzaddi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zodzilla/)
 * (@zodzilla)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/singlephp-repeating-content-and-comments/)
 * I’m having an issue with single views of some posts:
    - Single post views of older posts like [this one](http://www.heartofbusiness.com/2009/heart-of-money-experiences/)
      are showing the_content followed by some comments, the_content again, followed
      by the same comments.
    - The first time round that post says “12 comments”, the second it says “20 
      comments”. But, in this case it only displays 5 of the 12 total comments that
      truly exist for that post.
    - Newer posts ([like this one](http://www.heartofbusiness.com/2011/what-does-a-do-no-financial/)),
      in single view, are fine.
    - That newer post which displays fine has 71 comments, so it’s not a matter 
      of the bug showing after a certain number of comments.
    - I confirmed it’s not coming from the comments template both by commenting 
      out comments_template(); and by removing my theme’s comments.php so it would
      use the default instead.
    - I deactivated plugins that are doing something related to the loop (comment
      luv, subscribe to comments, WWSGD, and sexy bookmarks) in case it was coming
      from there
    - this bug existed before upgrade to 3.3 so it’s not that
 * I’m running out of ideas! Anyone else have some?

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 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/singlephp-repeating-content-and-comments/#post-2460437)
 * Have you tried repairing the database?
 *  Thread Starter [Tzaddi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zodzilla/)
 * (@zodzilla)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/singlephp-repeating-content-and-comments/#post-2460481)
 * Thanks for the idea, [@kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/).
   I just tried that now and it didn’t fix it. And of course I emptied the page 
   cache just to be sure. Hmm…
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/singlephp-repeating-content-and-comments/#post-2460588)
 * Start the basic debug.
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

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 * [the-loop](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/the-loop/)

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 * Last reply from: [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/singlephp-repeating-content-and-comments/#post-2460588)
 * Status: resolved

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