Use a Plugin or a Feed.

  • Resolved ekstra

    (@ekstra)


    20 years ago

    I’m putting together http://www.eksist.com and I’d like to be able to link the latest changes to my blog on my non-blog homepage (same site).

    With a bit of trial and effort I managed to do the equivalent with the Coppermine gallery software using a plugin and some basic PHP editting.

    However, I’m a bit at a loss of the best way to do this for the WordPress blog. There so much help information that I’m literally drowning trying to decide where to apply myself.

    So here it is, please help if you can:

    To link the most recent 3 titles of a wordpress blog (on the same server) to my homepage, do you recommend using a plugin or RSS feeds, or am I missing something even more obvious?

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  • Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    20 years ago

    Lots of options! Here’s one: http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

    In particular, this section might appeal:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page#Adding_a_Mini-Loop

    Thread Starter ekstra

    (@ekstra)

    20 years ago

    Thank you for the link, this does seem to be the information I was looking for. I have experimented with the suggested code, but have been unable to load my html page without a

    Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/webroot/virtual/eksist.com/index.experimental.html on line 47

    The code I’m using is clipped from the codex http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page and changed to reflect the wordpress path on the server. Its the code to add a miniloop to a static page.

    Line 47 is the line which begins
    $news=$wpdb->get_results(“SEL

    I have tried simplifying the section of code to its basics, but don’t seem to be able to get rid of the error message. I’m using wordpress v. 2.02 and a nearly unmodified version of ‘boxy but gold’ for a theme.

    Anyone got any ideas?

    Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    20 years ago

    I’m just throwing out ideas… I notice the initial mini-loop example on that page doesn’t have what the lower examples on that page have:

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

    Just guessing, would that make a diff?

    Thread Starter ekstra

    (@ekstra)

    19 years, 11 months ago

    Thank you.

    I’m not sure exactly what did the job, but your idea of trying some of the other code on the page certainly helped me get there. I think part of the issue was the way wordpress would edit some of the native html after I’d paste it in.

    Anyways, its working now and my issue is sort of ‘resolved’, thanks again.

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