Hi, great post!

How would you call a specific page as opposed to the latest post.

Thanks!

Thanks!

Is there anyway to display the comments as well?

You’re a beautiful man Ken!

Can’t possibly thank you enough for this post. Been looking for this for awhile now. Definitely will give the deserved trackback love.

For anyone hoping to do more than just display the most recent post, you can see a full list of “template tags” below. (Template Tags are functions that you have full access to once you include the wp-blog-header.php file above):

Wordpress Template Tags

Thanks again for the post,
Tison

Hi,
I have my WP site all set up.
I have an include file which I feature on all my pages(index.php,archive.php,page.php etc).
How do I display a post on one of my pages?

I tried:

but no success :(
Please help,

Many thanks!

Holy crap! I almost gave up looking for this info, until I ran across your article – thanks so much!

Is there any way to control the length of the excerpt?

Hi,

This is INCREDIBLY helpful, thank you. I’m wondering if I can use this same technique to sort of “wrap” the header/footer files around a page outside of Wordpress. I am rebuilding my site in Wordpress but have an outside application that is set up with a server side include to pull my old html header and footer files. This was down to avoid having to iframe this outside app. I want it to be to mimic this behavior without have to completely recreate my wordpress headers and footers in html. Does that make sense?

Thanks for any insight you have

I love you so much for this.

Hi Kenn,

I finally got around to playing with this and it has almost done the trick. In IE it looks OK but firefox has is a little screwy with the pages I’m “wrapping around”. Do you have any advice before I bang my head right through a wall? You’ll see what I mean at http://www.mlsfinder.com/ma_mlspin/myrealtorjake/.

Thanks for sharing all of your knowledge with us!

Hi Kenn,
Thanks for the info.

I want to make 3 blogs, lets calll them A (main blog) and B and C. All different WP installs and different domains. Blogs will be on different servers. The database will not.
On blog A I want to show posts from blog B and Blog C.

Can your require an post from blog B and make it show in blog A although the blogs are not on the same server?

I have tried:
require(’http://www.blogA.com/wp-blog-header.php’);
But this gives me an error.
Also tried through RSS feeds but this limits the way the post is shown.

Thanks for your reply.

About pulling content from two different Wordpress installations on the same page: it didn’t worked for me; the page shows two times the article from the first blog, the same that is happening to Adam.
I’ll let you know If I work it out.

Hi all.

I tried this method on WordPress 2.6.2.
But, don’t working. PHP printing fatal error:
“Fatal error: Call to a member function set_prefix() on a non-object in /home/farkhod/sites/site04/root/wp/wp-settings.php on line 216″.

Can you help me?

Thanks.

Hi Kenn,

Thanks for the info.

I have copied a dummy of WP into a folder called “requiretest”.

When I put
require(’./requiretest/wp-blog-header.php’); into a separate php file in a folder above this requiretest folder it works fine.

But when I make a pagetemplate in which I add this line it gives an error saying that the file cannot be found.
I also tried several variaties of the path, like .././requiretest/wp-blog-header.php and ../.././requiretest/wp-blog-header.php etc…

It will be my lack of knowledge of Wordpress that I can not seem to find the correct path.

My original WP install is in the folder “nieuws” and the dummy is in the folder /nieuws/requiretest/.
What path should be used in the require command ?

Thank you for your effort.
Edwin

Hi Kenn,

You are right, I mean a template within an WP theme.

Perhaps I can work with an static PHP page. I will rethink the way I want to set this up.

Could very well be that I will consult you in the future.

Thank you for your help.
Edwin

Is there a way to show on the blog part of a web page or a frame from a website outside the blog?
There’s a website giving the menu-of-the-day for my kids. I’d like to show this menu of the day in some part of my blog. So I need something that retrieves this info from the website and shows it “as it is on that site”, not just as a link.
Hope I made myself clear enough. I’m'very (VERY) poor at html, php and web design….

Thanks

Great information you’ve been given out. I’m running into an issue where I want to register new users into my WP from another page on my site, how do I go about doing that. Meaning I am integrating the WP Blog into a site and I want to be able to have people who register for my site automatically register for the WP Blog at the same time. That’s why I need to insert a new user into the WP at that time. I tried the following:

require BASEDIR ."/blog/wp-includes/wp-blog-header.php";
$NiceName = $fname . " " . $lname;
$newMem = array(
	'user_login'      => $uname,
	'user_pass'       => $password,
	'user_nicename'   => $NiceName,
	'nickname'        => $NiceName,
	'first_name'      => $fname,
	'last_name'       => $lname,
	'display_name'    => $NiceName,
	'user_registered' => date("Y-m-d H:i:s"),
	'user_email'      => $email
);
wp_insert_user($newMem);

But it seems to conflict with my database for my site is throwing errors when I make any db calls after wp-blog-header.php has been included. Any ideas what I could do to get this to work?

That works a treat.. I have a few questions:

1. What other options are available if I want to show Author, date and time added, Comments, Image etc etc..

2. What do i cange if I would like to see a catgeory rather than individual posts?

Thanks

Hi there!
this article is good but I have a question:

if I would display the IMAGE
uploaded with the article
outside the loop but in the same page ..??

it’s possible to do..?

Awesome post Kenn – This is going to be great to allow me to retro fit some WordPress info from the blog on my non-WordPress homepage. Can’t thank you enough.

S.

Great stuff Kenn.
I suspect if this sort of integration was second nature at the outset, and properly promoted, Wordpress could easily be attracting an even greater following. A premium blogging tool with a simple, bolt-on CMS—now that’s something to build on. Thanks for helping this great software turn the corner when it comes to sites that utilize a blog, but are not built around them.

Thanks for this! Elegant method that works great…

Thanks Ken, this works well and is clearly explained. Now for my question… :)

I’m setting up my index page to display 20 recent blog posts, and using the code below to view older posts. How do I set up an “Older Entries” page to match my index page? Currently clicking Older Entries gives me an unstyled page with all entries.

Thanks!

Thanks for the reply. I’m actually trying to display blog posts solely on my non-WP index page, and not link back to a WP theme page. Do you think it’s possible to display older entries this way? I’m not going to include comments, archive, or anything more elaborate.

I think you’re right…I started going in the other direction and just tweaking a WP theme to match the existing site. Your tutorial at least helped me understand how far the loop can be pushed though.

Hi Kenn,
Thanks for posting this.
I’ve been trying to do the same with my kurbick theme. My problem is that I also want to add to this static page that “looks like” my blog my sidebar to the right side of the screen, like in my blog.

The thing is that if I put the before the content of my page, the content (a form) gets pushed down below where my sidebar end, and if I put the after the content, then it is the sidebar that gets pushed down under where my form ends.

to make it clear:
scenario 1-

----------------------------
|       B A N N E R        |
----------------------------
                       |---|
                       |   |
                       |---|
content
content

scenario 2 -

----------------------------
|       B A N N E R        |
----------------------------
content
content
                       |---|
                       |   |
                       |---|

Sorry for the space :)
Do you have a suggestion for me?

thanks!

Your site was a godsend! I am not a blogger, but have an Herb website that I decided to add a blog to in order to get participation, etc. Your post here was finally found and worked..see page I put it on in the right main column. What I want to know is how do I include the whole post, not just an excerpt and I want to be able to have people comment, etc. ( ie include everything from the post on WP, date, author, etc.) on this page or else I might as well just write my post on this page.

I hope that was clear. I truly thank you for this, I have been looking a long time!

Thank You Ken for your response and advice. I may be calling on you. Have a great New Year and thank you again.

Damn, sorry for double post but it didnt show the php code.

But I used your example, and tried adding stuff from the link you provided.

Thanks so much for this, it really helps. Now, is their a way to link to the next (or previous) entry in a category using this method ?

Great article. Just what my client is looking for. I’m going to play around with the code to see if I can add the blog’s feed to the client’s front page.

And where’s your tip jar, Kenn? I’d hit it. :)

Hi Kenn,

In regards to pulling info from multiple blogs on one page…for some reason I have not been able to make this work. I’ve tried various combinations of code, but it seems that whatever blog is called first, will set the stage for the second loop. The code below is a simple example of what I’m trying:

[scrambled code removed for readability. -- Kenn]

Any thoughts would be great :)

Kenn, Hello. Your advice has helped me display posts on my static site and it works great. I have numerous categories that my partner posts on her blog and asks if I can transfer them instead of on one page as I do now but to the appropriate categories on our html site. Using the Green Homes category as an example, it has a category id or page id of ?cat=30. How do I use this to call only those posts from this category on my wordpress site and display them on my html site page Green Homes?
Thank you so much…

Thanks Kenn. I did just that and now have posts from specific categories, showing up on their specific pages. Thank you.

How can I display just the post title and make the title clickable instead of adding another line “Read more…”

Thanks for any help…

Kenn…
thanks for this post. Keep it up!!!!!!!!!!!!

You sir, have saved me so much time!!! Thank you!

@fretbuzz

Do you NEED four installs of WP? You could always just set up your main categories as pages and have the home page as a catch-all. By doing this, you can define the CSS for each page and have them appear to be inherently different while all being maintained from the same blog. This would eliminate the need for routing from the main blog to the sub-blogs. To do this you would just need to set up some php definitions inside your page.php file to make each part of the blog do what you want. Again this is just a thought as I’m not sure how to do it the other way.

To change the call to the page head, just open up index.php in a text editor and it’ll be at the bottom. Wordpress links to a detailed explanation on this from the settings page.

- Heath

I think the easier way what you can do, is getting the RSS Feed and parse the XML.

Nice article.

@ken: You are so right here. RSS is NOT the way to go. I want full, polished threads.

Hi,

I’ve used your code on my site, and credited you in the blog.. I have a tiny but nonetheless annoying little problem. On the sitemap I show a comma delimited list of last six posts by title. It works except it is adding a space on the end of the title…. First Post , Fiddling .

I’ve ruled out stray spaces in the code (which is outlined below)

$title = the_title('', '', FALSE);
echo trim($title);

Any thoughts?

I am now pulling posts fine and having it populate the page, but is there a way to pull sidebar widgets and place them in the sidebar of a non-WP website some how with this?

Hi Kenn,

Thanks so much – this is great and so clear! My question might be off-topic – if so, apologies.

I’m trying to use the header.php file from a Wordpress template outside of my Wordpress install – specifically I’m trying to use it as a header in another program, which unfortunately has a couple of function names in common with Wordpress. Therefore when I use your trick above, I get errors (due to function duplication).

I know I could duplicate the header content outside of WP to keep the style – and boy am I close to doing that! – but ideally of course I’d maintain my header file in just one place, and that place would be within WP so I could use all the yummy WP functionality to maintain it. I’ve played around with auto-caching the header.php file but I’m not a PHP guru and haven’t been able to figure that out yet.

Any ideas would be most welcome — thanks!!

Michelle

Kenn,

First off, I would buy you a beer for supplying me such great info. I am having a great day today because of you!

I had great success using your suggestions above, but I wonder if you could help me with a couple of questions.

1. I want to include posts from two blogs. The tip of the day would be one, the one beneath would pull from a different post.

Also, as you can see at the test page I have setup at http://bonaventureshoes.com/tips.php, the blog text goes beyond the div. Can I contain it in there without overflowing?

Thank you so much for your help!

Thanks Kenn,

So I need to install another blog in order to include two different posts?

Thanks!

One more time bothering you…

Do you have an example of parsing the rss feeds and how to include that in my page?

By the way, the div did have a height on it and was causing the overflow.

Thanks

How do the instructions vary if it is blog.example.com instead of example.com/blog? Or, is that not an easy change?

Thanks.

hey Kenn-
This is great stuff. I’ve had some success with the things you’ve listed here, but I’m getting some strange symbols in my posts.

Example:
“…among commentaries I’ve read seems…”

It does not appear this way on the blog, but does in the excerpt. Any thoughts?

Here’s the page I’ve been working on:
http://www.joshuajmasters.com/default.php

Thanks

Josh

Hi Kenn,

Thank you for directing me to SimplePie, that worked great. Do you have any suggestions for me to split the feeds at http://bonaventureshoes.com/tips.php

I only want one feed in each box and I cannot figure out how to separate them. Any ideas? Thanks much.

Kenn,
Great information. Looks like it’s working great except services like Google, Crazyegg confirmed at – http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp , are returning my site as 404 error. Except for the index page. It’s reachable by users, seems to just be a problem with bot type requests.

Any ideas? I can’t have Google not indexing it.
It’s hosted with GoDaddy, they say it’s not them (I wonder though)
Any help is appreciated as I haven’t been able to figure this one out. Here is the url http://www.silvertreeconstruction.com/
WP is installed in /articles Every page except index and /articles return to Google as 404.

Hi Ken-

Thanks for the info. It seems to be a very straight-forward process and everyone has been able to implement it easily. Mysteriously though, it’s not working for me. I would be very grateful if you could offer insight into my problem. I’m using WP 2.7

My code:

define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require('http://myurl.com/wp-blog-header.php');
query_posts('showposts=1');

Ouput when running php file:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function query_posts()

I know my path to the wp-blog-header file is fine because I get a different error when I change the url, so it seems to be including it fine.. yet I cannot access any of the WP functions!??! Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Wow. This page instruction is so clear & concise. My only (2 day long) difficulty was fixed by changing ‘the_excerpt()’ to ‘the_content()’.

Now my formatting/HTML/images can be seen!

Kenn Kenn the BEST of Men.

Fantastic help! Cheers.

One question: If I set showposts=3 is there a way to display the three different posts in different styles?

My example is I want to create a newspaper style backsheet with the latest post being the main headline and the second and third posts being sub headings further down.

Many thanks,

@Kenn: Thanks! I’ll give that a try.

Keep up the great work!

Thanks a ton for posting such an excellent post.

I spent alot of time searching for it and was getting little frustrated but finally I found your blog and I couldnt believe it can be that easy.

My sinciere thanks for your help.

Kind Regards,
Yudhvir Dahiya

So, I am having trouble with the info you spoke to Alex Colket on April 7th. I am trying to figure out the filesystem naming or location.

My wp-blog-header.php is in: /root/blog/wp-blog-header.php Here I use require('./blog/wp-blog-header.php');

The page I am putting this into is located at:
/root/folder1/folder2/folder3/page.php

I don’t know what the require('/?/?/?/wp-blog-header.php') should be.

any ideas??

I can’t seem top figure this out. I can get it to work on a php page in the root directory, but not the other one.

Thanks Kenn!
You’ve made my day with this article. Thank you!

The same question as Nacy:

from Nancy on March 20, 2009
How do the instructions vary if it is blog.example.com instead of example.com/blog? Or, is that not an easy change?

When I put the codes my page becomes ‘blank’.

Thank you.

thanks… here what i found in my error log;
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: query_posts()

Kenn,
What a great, easy to follow tutorial. I think the fact that people are still leaving comments is a testament to how useful it is.
I do have a question for you – I followed your instructions and weaved some posts into my homepage. There are 9 posts total in my blog and on my homepage I’ve set ’showposts’ to 5 so that the page doesn’t run on and on. But after those 5 posts, I’ve love to just list the titles and dates of the remaining four posts, under a heading of ‘Recent Posts’ or something like that. Is that complicated? Does it require another loop? Thanks.

I have one question. It works perfectly and my home page now shows the latest blog entries. How can I make it so there is a button that allows you to subscribe to the wordpress feed for my news entries(as you can see the feed button under the actual wordpress templates) from my home page?

And thank you SOOO much for this tutorial. It helped like you wouldn’t believe. I spend 2 weeks trying to find out how to do this to my current website with no experience in Mysql and you taught me that in minutes. Thanks.

Is there a way to do this to also display WP categories on a sidebar as well as recent posts on an external site?

The blog I’m building is completely outside the normal Wordpress theme as it seemed the best way to allow for mutliple pages, with different layouts each displaying a different category. however, I’m having problems including the actualy comments and form on these same pages, as I’m trying to totally cut out the theme system. Do you have any tips regarding this?

Cheers.

I have a website that integrates wordpress into it with one login that occurs outside of wordpress. The code works well on my “localhost” computer at home, but when I move it to the production machine the login works but when I want to access the http://www.example.com/blog part of it, wordpress asks me to log in…..

1. is there an issue with cookies?

please take a look at the code below and let me know

define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require(BLOG_PATH . 'wp-blog-header.php');
$secure_cookie = true;  
$credentials = array('user_login' => 'admin', 'user_password' => 'pass');
$user = wp_signon($credentials, $secure_cookie); 
if (!is_wp_error($user)) {
    echo 'successfully logged into blog';
}
print_r($user);

This post was exactly what I was looking for. Couldn’t have asked for a better tutorial. Just want you to know I really appreciate it.

Craig

Thanks allot been working with Wordpress on allot of my projects. finding this out has become a massive solution to a few problems.

Thanks Again!