Wordpress yet another related posts plugin not outputting in specified location - php

I'm using the YARPP plugin for a custom hosted wordpress site. I've changed the default location settings so that it only displays the widget where I specify (see screenshot). When I call the plugin in my single.php file it is moving the widget inside of the article.post, even when I try and contain it in a separate wrapping div.
single.php:
<article class='post'>...</article>
<div class='yarpp-wrapper'>
<?php if (function_exists('related_posts') ) : related_posts(); endif; ?>
</div>
output:
<article class='post'>...</article>
<div class='yarpp-related'>...</div> <!-- yarpp plugin-->
<div class='yarpp-wrapper></div> <!-- empty wrapper -->

I believe it's because you are using a custom yarpp template. Select 'List' instead, leave the other options above unchecked, and make sure the php script is in your single.php file. No need to wrap it in anything. Just place wherever you want it to show.
<?php related_posts(); ?>

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I am developing a custom theme in WordPress, and am trying to put custom HTML and PHP in my home page template. Whenever I am posting code for divs or custom fields in my home page template, they are simply not rendering and displaying on the front end. In the example below, the <div class="col-full"> is not being shown on the front end.
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/*
Template Name: home
*/
?>
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I'd recommend consulting the wordpress template hierarchy https://wphierarchy.com/. This shows you which files will try to be loaded based on what page you're visiting.
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I'm having quite a weird issue with my WordPress site. I am building a theme from scratch and I'm trying to make change to the containers on my blog page (page.php and single.php). Weirdly enough, I have made no major changes to the code other than add a wrapper, but the changes aren't showing up.
I've made many themes without this issue so I'm unsure what's going wrong this time. I have set the blog page to be the posts page in the settings so I can't understand why the template won't update. The code I have is below, and is just the standard WordPress code with the exception of 'grid wrapper' and attempting to remove the sidebar which also shows.
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<div class="grid wrapper">
<section class="the-content">
<main>
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This is how it supposed to be used: Understanding get_template_part
So if you have blank Wordpress file structure, I'm not sure if you have template-parts for sure. You can have them only if you intentionally made them.
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I had the same issue. Most likely index.php is overriding your file as in my case. It depends how your theme handles the loop so check out on your index.php and change it there.
If i remember well, the blog page set in the back-office reference first at home.php and then index.php. Page and single aren't call.

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I m building a word press site with a unique theme that i created, now i got like 10 classes of different styles for the static pages in my site.
The question is, when i want to display the content of the page, with all the forms images and text, how should i do that? With the text editor where the user usually insert his content for the posts in regular wp website? Or should i insert the content images and forms hard coded in the php custom page template of those static pages?
In the text editor if i insert some html in edit as html it's becoming a mess it doesn't seems right to create sections and div where the user regularly just put his raw content, and anyway adding more content to a static page in the future will require my intervention to wrap it with css sections and div's definitions and classes...
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If you want to put into your static page some elements that cannot be setted by the text editor (like your own forms, per example) you'll need to create your own page template with hard-coded elements.
Example:
<?php /* Template Name: My custom page template */ ?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
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<div class="clear">
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