What does "Singular" do in the Twenty Eleven theme?

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  waduncan · Member · Jun 16, 2012 at 1:05 pm

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  I’m reading the CSS and can’t quite see what the role of “Singular” is?

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  designsimply · Member · Jun 17, 2012 at 11:15 pm

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  The “singular” class in Twenty Eleven is used for single posts.

  Here is an example of a single post from your website:
  http://duncan4nh.com/2012/06/17/executive-councilor-ray-burton-r-north-country-opposes-the-proposed-income-tax-amendment/

  Welcome! And it’s cool to hear you’re reading the CSS. :)

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  waduncan · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 12:20 am

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  Thanks for this. Not to be too dense, but isn’t every post “singular?” Can you show me a post that isn’t singular?

  ….just to understand….

  Thanks

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  designsimply · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 1:16 am

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  Sure. In WordPress terms, this is a page and not a single post:

  http://duncan4nh.com/bills-background/

  If you compare the classes on the body tag for that link to the ones from the other link, you’ll see that one has “singular” in the list and the other doesn’t. The “singular” class (or “single” in some themes) is just the way most WordPress themes distinguish single posts.

  Also see http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

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  waduncan · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 3:55 am

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  Ahh…huge help. I do know the difference between a page and a post…just never connected “single” as a synonym.

  Thanks so much….