Title: Site not using page.php
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Site not using page.php

 *  [Chiel OB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chiel-ob/)
 * (@chiel-ob)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-not-using-pagephp/)
 * Hi,
 * Im making my own theme, but now i created an Index.php that one only shows Thumbnails
   and titles. Everything working fine.
 * But now if i go to the post, its not using the page.php but the index.php.
    How
   can i change this? I want to use page.php for posts.

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-not-using-pagephp/#post-5542826)
 * the post would use single.php if available – [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy)

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 * [page.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/page-php/)

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 * Last reply from: [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-not-using-pagephp/#post-5542826)
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