Title: WordPress API single post
Last modified: August 21, 2020

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# WordPress API single post

 *  Resolved [Radu33](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radu33/)
 * (@radu33)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-api-single-post/)
 * Hello,
 * I’m building a small wordpress sitee that should grab the posts from another 
   website that we have. So I created a small plugin that is using the Wp API to
   grab the latest 5 posts using:
    `$response = wp_remote_get( 'https://website.
   com/blog/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?per_page=5' );`
 * Now once I got the 5 posts and I show them on my page, how do I approach creating
   the single posts? The list of posts are on my new website `/blog` When I click
   the post link I want it to get me to `/blog/post-name` which is fairly easy to
   do, however, I have no idea how to display the content of the single post inside`/
   blog/post-name` as currently this post doesn’t exist in the DB I get a 404 error

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-api-single-post/#post-13295110)
 * You ask about creating a single post, but I think you mean serving a single post
   that resides on the other site.
 * There shouldn’t be relative links in WP, they’ll surely fail with certain requests.
   When you display a post from another site, its links should be absolute, so a
   link to the single post would normally take one back to the original site on 
   which the post exists.
 * If you want the remote posts to be served from your small site, you’ll need to
   alter the links for the posts to lead to something your site knows how to process.
   The current page already got the post from the initial API request. You could
   have the page’s scripts display the full single post in an element on the current
   page. This is often presented as a sidebar list of posts. The main page area 
   might first display the first post’s content. When someone clicks on another 
   sidebar link, script replaces the original main area content with that of the
   clicked post.
 * If you’d rather mimic normal behavior where the single post is served on a separate
   page, you’d need a special page template which gets passed the post ID. The template
   code can then request the post on the other site through another API call.
 *  Thread Starter [Radu33](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radu33/)
 * (@radu33)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-api-single-post/#post-13298351)
 * [@bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/) Thank you! yes, exactly
   I want to serve them from my website. Your idea sounds good, but I still want
   to have /blog/slug when accessing the single post. Is there a way I can altern
   single.php to make it work?
 * Or shall I create a new template for that?
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-api-single-post/#post-13300756)
 * Don’t directly alter single.php, that would conflict with your blogging element.
   Add a [new custom page template](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/page-template-files/#creating-a-custom-page-template-for-one-specific-page)
   which contains the necessary PHP code. You can start with a copy of single.php
   in order to use your theme’s DOM structure, but alter where the post data comes
   from. Add a new WP page that will use this template.
 * When you add custom templates, it’s best to [use a child theme](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/)
   to contain your custom work.
 *  Thread Starter [Radu33](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radu33/)
 * (@radu33)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-api-single-post/#post-13301465)
 * [@bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/) Thank you, I actually
   already created a custom template, which takes the query var from a function 
   which adds a rewrite_rule `add_rewrite_rule( 'blog/(.+?)/?$', 'index.php?post_slug
   =$matches[1]', 'top' );`. And based on this query var I make a request to my 
   bigger blog and display the content.
 * I’m not sure how actually correct this is based on wordpress codex, but it works
   🙂
 * Thank you for your suggestions 🙂

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