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1. bmdavis
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have wordpress on a subdirectory and want to reference it on the main page. I do not want to use standard wordpress forms because I want to control it differently than I control the main wordpress directory.

   I tried using an RSSParser in Dreamweaver to reference the website, but the parser wants a .rss file and as near as I can tell, wordpress feeds are .php files. I have used the Dreamweaver function before and it works on .rss, but not on anything else.

   I found another code example that should do exactly what i want it to do: a php line that calls on the following code (through a template)

   <?php
   /*
   Template Name: Latest
   */
   ?>
   <?php
   global $post;
   $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=4&category=8');
   foreach($myposts as $post) :
   setup_postdata($post);
   ?>
   "><?php the_title(); ?>
   <?php endforeach; ?>

   I have the callout code on the main page and the code listed above in the 'themes' of the wordpress folders. I have the following code on the main page:

   <?php
   include("blog/wp-content/themes/mine/latest-post.php");
   ?>
   and it produces the following error:

   Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'TEMPLATEPATH/blog/wp-content/themes/mine/latest.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/.wycliffe/bmdavis/e.ner.gy/blog/wp-content/themes/mine/latest-post.php on line 2

   I need either a solution to the dreamweaver problem or a way to get the include_path right.

   Thanks...

2. Kafkaesqui
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   This:
   

   <?php
   /*
   Template Name: Latest
   */
   ?>

   says "I am a Page template," which means it would only work as an included document (assigned as a Page's template, that is) within your WordPress blog. To incorporate WordPress functionality *outside* WordPress, you must first include the wp-blog-header.php file, as described here:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page#Integrating_WordPress

3. bmdavis
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I appreciate the help, it worked. I was able to use the rest of the post you linked to create the links I was looking for from my blog.

   One more question, the code listed on the 'static front page' to create a mini-loop outputs the title of the posts. How do I also grab the date, category/topic, and the first few lines of the post?

4. Kafkaesqui
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Once you include wp-blog-header.php, you have access to any of WordPress' functionality, including:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts

   There are a number of better and in some cases far easier solutions than the basic query example provided on the Creating a Static Front Page doc.

5. bmdavis
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   that did it, thanks for your help.

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