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I'm having a weird issue while setting up a site. It almost seems as though the /blog/ url is reserved or already in use, only it isn't as far as I can tell.

I setup a new page called 'Blog' and set the permalink to '/blog/'. Then under 'Settings' => 'Reading' I set the Posts page to be 'Blog'. Then I went one step further and setup a new template called 'tpl-blog.php' and assigned it to the 'Blog' page.

After all that I entered some content in and it and tested and it didn't look right, none of my text was in there and a lowercase 'blog' was showing up for the title. I tested a bit more and found it was using the page.php file instead of my custom tpl-blog.php.

Thanks for any help!
Levi

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Change the filename from tpl-blog.php to page-blog.php, see if that fixes it.

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oh hmm, that fixed it. Was the fact that I set the page to be the 'Posts page' that gave the index.php template a higher precedence than the one I set in the admin? I had tried removing it as the 'Posts page' to see if that changed it and I still had the same problem. So basically I am not just wondering why the template being set in the admin wasn't given the highest precedent. Also, does this work because I am able to override template on a page-uri.php scheme? Good to know! – Levi Jul 13 '12 at 21:11
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Yes, it's the filename that changes the template being used. tpl-blog.php isn't a valid template filename. You could override it with blog.php (as a page template, see twentyeleven for examples), as a template being set in the admin will override page-blog.php. More info is available on the codex - codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy – SickHippie Jul 13 '12 at 21:33

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