WP Latest Posts in non-wordpress site

  • lonewolfonline

    (@lonewolfonline)


    16 years, 3 months ago

    Hi,
    I am trying to show the latest posts for a category(ies) on a non-wordpress site. I used to do this with a somple sql query but since the change to 2.3 I can’t do that any more.

    Instead, I have tried using:

    function showHeadlines($entrytype = '', $items = 4)
{
  require('wordpress/wp-blog-header.php'); 

  $query = 'showposts=' . $items;
  if ($entrytype != '')
    $query .= '&cat=' . $entrytype;

  query_posts($query);

  if ($posts) : foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp();
  $blogContent = get_the_content();
  ?>
      <a>'><?php the_time(’d/m/Y’); ?>: <?php the_title(); ?></a>\n";
      <small><?php add3dots(strip_tags($blogContent),"...",170)?></small>&nbsp;<a>'>Full Story: <?php the_title(); ?></a>

";
  <?php endforeach; else: ?>
  <?php endif; ?>
<?}

    Where $entrytype is the comma list of cat id’s.

    I found this code on this forum, and on another site, both times it seems to have worked for the person asking, however I am getting an error:

    ‘Fatal error: Call to a member function hide_errors() on a non-object in /wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 895’

    Can anybody help fix this, or suggest a better way? I don’t really want to use RSS as there is too much overhead with that.

    Thanks in advance.

    Tim

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  • Matt Blank

    (@mattblank)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    Hi,

    I got over this hurdle the other day. Here’s what I did:

    Create a php file in your themes i.e. latest.php and put the below code in it:

    ———–

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

    ———–

    numberposts=4&category=8
    Is simply what it says, how many posts you want displayed and from which category.

    Then create a page with no content in and call that i.e. latest-posts. Assign your latest.php as the template to be used.

    Then just create a PHP include on the page you want i.e.

    ———–

    <? include ("http://www.yourdomain.com/wordpress/latest-posts/");?>

    ———–

    Then it’s done!
    Matt

    Thread Starter lonewolfonline

    (@lonewolfonline)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    I’ll give that a try.

    Thanks!

    softsoft

    (@softsoft)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    I’ll give that a try.

    Thanks!

    mqcarpenter

    (@mqcarpenter)

    16 years ago

    This is great but you need URL file-access to make it work.

    mqcarpenter

    (@mqcarpenter)

    16 years ago

    FYI this works like a champ:

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

    kaistarr

    (@kaistarr)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    This is great but you need URL file-access to make it work.

    Try using “readfile” instead of “include,” if your host doesn’t let you include with a URL (mine doesn’t).

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