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Posted by Cassaundra Kaiser
Cassaundra Kaiser
1,133 Points

[RESOLVED] Custom portfolio detail page unable to load single-work.php page content

Hi everyone,

I've watched all of the 'How to Build a Wordpress Theme' videos, taken the quizzes and now I've started to build my own custom Wordpress site. I found the tutorials very helpful but am totally stumped on one thing - how do I link the single-work.php file to the work detail pages? Right now I've created each of the work pages (filled with content) but when I click on the preview images on the work page I am brought to a page with no content on it. Anyone know the answer to this?

Thanks a lot!

Cassie

2 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Is your custom post type called "work"? Wordpress operates on a template hierarchy, so when you have a custom post type, and want to display the single post of that work type, it is going to look for a file called single-{post-type-name}.php. If it can't find that page, it will fall back to the single.php file.

Also make sure in your single-work.php file you are running a new WP_Query and are querying for the custom post type "work".

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

Cassaundra Kaiser
Cassaundra Kaiser
1,133 Points
Cassaundra Kaiser
Cassaundra Kaiser
1,133 Points

Thank you very much Kevin! Problem solved :)