Blog embedded into static site, 'older posts' link not working

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    (@controlspace)


    12 years, 10 months ago

    Hello,
    I have a static XHTML site into which I have plugged in a WordPress news blog. I have left all of the .html files intact, added a ‘news’ folder with wordpress in it, and just added another page in the root directory with mostly the same XHTML code, except it has a .php suffix.
    At the beginning this page has:

    <?php
// Include WordPress
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require('./news/wp-load.php');
query_posts('showposts=3');
?>

    and somewhere in the body it has the loop:

    <?php if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>    

<?php the_title('<h2 class="entry-title"><a title="' . the_title_attribute('echo=0') . '" rel="bookmark">', '</a></h2>'); ?>

<div class="entry-content">
	<?php the_content(__('Continue reading', 'example')); ?>
	<?php wp_link_pages('before=<p class="pages">' . __('Pages:','example') . '&after=</p>'); ?>
</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php else : ?>
	<p class="no-posts"><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria', 'example'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>

    All this works well, the latest 3 posts just appear (and they are automatically styled by the same CSS file as the rest of the site, which I really like). However, older posts drop off, because of that line at the beginning of the page. So I’d like to be able to have a link to older posts, with that page being dynamically created. This here doesn’t seem to work, it always points to a page inside the wordpress directory:

    <?php posts_nav_link('sep', 'pre', 'next') ?>

    So instead of
    http://localhost:8888/news.php/page/2 (or something like that)
    it points to:
    http://localhost:8888/news/news.php/page/2

    I’ve tried editing the Permalinks, but without effect.

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    (@controlspace)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    Let me answer that myself.

    It was a bad idea to remove the .php page from the wordpress directory. I’ve moved it into there and now the 2nd/3rd and so on pages work. (All the static html pages are still in the root dir, which is fine)

    Also, the bit at the top needs to say:

    <?php
// Include WordPress
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require('wp-blog-header.php');
?>
    Thread Starter ControlSpace

    (@controlspace)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    oops. Then of course there’s this here, which answers my question and makes the initial idea possible:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

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