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Please help as I am loosing my mind with this issue.

I built my first really simple wordpress theme. http://www.designstest.co.uk/ For NEWS (blog) page I created a new template page-blog.php (based in index.php that is used by all other pages). The only difference - it has sidebar. It works fine if I apply same template to static page, but it does not display sidebar on NEWS(blog) page. If you see CMR page - it has same template applied as NEWS.

I have tried instead of get sidebar just place some simple text and it acts the same - displays text in static pages but not blog.

I really don't understand what is going on.

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  • Post the code that displays the sidebar, please.
    – s_ha_dum
    Sep 20, 2013 at 14:18

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<!-- Obsolete

You have to create the file named single.php for your single post template. If you use custom post types, name the file like single-my_custom_post_type.php, where my_custom_post_type part is your registered custom post type.

Otherwise index.php is used by default.

-->

Edited:

You have to change the file name from page_blog.php to page-blog.php. Notice dash and underscore in the file name.

See Single Post display in WordPress Codex.

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  • Thank you for that, but could you please explain what it has to do with the issue? Firstly - if there is no single.php it uses index.php and secondly - It's not the single post page I have issue with. Am I missing something?
    – Silv
    Sep 20, 2013 at 12:13
  • I've missed the point. Temporarily place <?php echo wp_basename( get_page_template() ); ?> somewhere in footer.php to see the file name of the template used for any page.
    – Max Yudin
    Sep 20, 2013 at 12:40
  • Done it but I don't see it displaying anything on NEWS page, but it does show page-blog.php on CSR page which is correct, NEWS (blog) supposed to use the same template. As it also shows nothing on other pages I assume it means the NEWS(blog) page uses index.php despite the fact I've set it to use page-blog.php. Any idea why it's happening?
    – Silv
    Sep 20, 2013 at 15:32
  • See edited answer.
    – Max Yudin
    Sep 20, 2013 at 15:47
  • Well spotted. Thank you for pointing it out, but problem stays still the same :(
    – Silv
    Sep 23, 2013 at 8:26

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