Custom post type not using it’s own single-postname.php

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I have a custom post type (that I’m using on a template page), the custom post type is called ‘headerhome’. When I post say a gallery there I’m trying to get it to redirect to ‘single-headerhome.php’, yet it always just goes to ‘single.php’.

The name of the custom post type itself is arbitrary, the name of the templage page it’s on is ‘front-page.php’.

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I’m really confused, I’m not the best at WP yet so when something simple like this doesn’t work I have no idea how to fix it, even after pouring over the codex for an hour. 

// Add new post type for homepage
add_action('init', 'frontpage_top_init');
function frontpage_top_init() 
{
    $args = array(
        'label' => __('Homepage'),
        'singular_label' => __('Homepage'),
        'public' => true,
        'publicly_queryable' => true,
        'show_ui' => true, 
        'query_var' => true,
        'rewrite' => true,
        'capability_type' => 'post',
        'hierarchical' => false,
        'menu_position' => 5,
        'supports' => array('title','editor'),
        'has_archive' => true
    ); 
    register_post_type('headerhome',$args);

}

Here’s my code on the front-page.php

EDIT:- 

<?php 
/*
    Template Name: frontpage
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="main-content">
<div class="head-home">
      <?php
$portfolio_query = new WP_Query(array(
        'post_type' => 'headerhome',
        'showposts' => 1
        ) );
?>
      <?php while ($portfolio_query->have_posts()) : $portfolio_query->the_post(); ?>

       <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>  
      <?php the_content(); ?>

  <div style="clear:both"></div>

  <div class="embed-container">
      <?php the_field('showreel'); ?>

  </div> <!-- end div embed-container -->   

    </div> <!-- end div head-home -->               

    <div class="gallerydescription">
        <?php the_field ('gallery-description'); ?>
    </div> <!-- end div gallerydescription -->  

<?php the_field('image-1'); ?>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>

<?php endwhile; wp_reset_postdata();?>

</div> <!-- end div main-content -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>

No matter what I try, it always uses single.php and not single-headerhome.php.
If my understand of wordpress is correct, and it’s probably not – shouldn’t creating the template file single-headerhome.php automatically make wordpress use that for this post type?

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  1. Have you flushed your permalinks?

    If not, visit your permalinks page in your dashboard, then, refresh the page you are trying to view.

    Let us know if that helps.

    Edit:

    Upon re-reading your question, actually, no – just because you create a single-post_type.php file does not mean WordPress will use that file with regards to your front-page.php template file.

    Your front-page.php file is what is rendering your post. This is your issue.

    If you want your single-post_type.php file to render the display of your post type within front-page.php then you can do the following;

    <?php
$portfolio_query = new WP_Query(array(
'post_type' => 'headerhome',
'showposts' => 1
));
?>

<?php while ($portfolio_query->have_posts()) : $portfolio_query->the_post(); ?>

<?php get_template_part('single-post_type.php'); ?>
   
<?php endwhile; wp_reset_postdata();?>

    But obviously make sure that single-post_type.php does not contain a loop/query within itself for if it does then you should remove the outer while/endwhile statements contained within front-page.php