FINALLY!!
Well, 3 months after originally aslking this quesiton on this thread and many other thread. And 3 months after looking all over the Internet for how to do this, I finally figured it out, thanks to only myself. Some of you might think this is simple, but I had a very very very hard time trying to figure it out.
And because I do not want anyone else to go through the headaches I had in figuring out how to do this, I am pasting the sample code for a sample page you can use to show the WP footer and header on pages outside your WP installation. Note: you should name the file *.php and the code for this is for you to place it within the root of the WP installation.
If you see 'It Works" within the template of your blog, then you know it works... also, my template does not use a sidebar--only a header and footer.
Here goes:
<?php require('wp-blog-header.php'); ?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-
transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo
('charset'); ?>" />
<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> » Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php
wp_title(); ?></title>
<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body>
It works!
</body>
</html>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
