Have a “latest post” feed on a completely different page?

  • scyze

    (@scyze)


    16 years, 1 month ago

    Hi folks, I’m trying to figure something out. I’ve got a website, and I want to have a little column that will always display a little preview to the latest news post on my WordPress. The WordPress is on a subdomain on the domain of the page I want to put it on, so it’s not like I’m plugging it into a WordPress default page–not sure how a plugin would work here, if any.

    I just want a little thing to display and automatically update the latest post from that blog. How would I go about doing this?

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  • Thread Starter scyze

    (@scyze)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    Ah, no juice? :/

    veevee

    (@veevee)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    You would need to build a custom php page that could echo content from the database that wordpress is writing to.
    Not worth it.

    My recomendation is to make a wordpress page, like an about page or something you aren’t using for your blog, cut out all of the wordpress calls except for the recent posts plugin (there are a couple out there), and put all of the regular static html content back in it. If you apply the same css to that page as to the rest of your non-wp site, users will only be able to tell that its a part of your blog by looking at the address.

    That make sense? I didn’t do a very good job of explaining.

    Len

    (@lenk)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    Assuming the page you’re talking about is a PHP page, include the following at the top,

    <?php
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require(./wp/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

    …where wp is the subdomain folder you speak of. All WordPress template tags should now work.

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