Including content from another WP install

  • hammerikaner

    (@hammerikaner)


    20 years, 2 months ago

    None of my previous requests for help have been answered, so I’m hoping that this post will get some attention!

    I have two WP installs running in separate directories on my webserver.

    I want to include a list of the four most recent posts from a specific category in one of the installs in the sidebar of the other install.

    This was easy to do when I was using Movable Type before switching to WP: I just had a custom template to ‘Loop’ out the four posts to an html file from the one weblog and used a php include to pull in that file to my sidebar.

    How can I do this in WordPress?

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  • Thread Starter hammerikaner

    (@hammerikaner)

    20 years, 1 month ago

    Dude? Anybody? Anyone going to help out? No? No answers whatsoever?

    Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    20 years, 1 month ago

    I would use this:
    Plugin Name: Feed List
    Plugin URI: http://rawlinson.us/blog/?p=212
    Description: Displays any ATOM or RSS feed in your blog.
    Author: Bill Rawlinson
    Author URI: http://blog.rawlinson.us
    Version: 2.02B

    Grab the feed from your other blog, set the limit to 4 and that should sort it 🙂

    denson

    (@denson)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    I’ve been unable to use plugins that use MAGPIE like feedList Plugin from blog.rawlinson.us because of the PHP configuration of my host (Godaddy).

    In order for you do grab external files like RSS feeds the PHP command allow_url_fopen must be set to “yes”. Godaddy seems to have it set to “no” for some of their services and not others.

    Is there anyway to directly include two blogs (or more) in one template?

    This would make it easier to find a blog host. I notice all the hosting partners listed at the wordpress.org site either have fopen disabled or only turn it on in an “as needed” basis and generally discourage it.

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