Opening external web page within a wordpress page

  • Resolved storyline1

    (@storyline1)


    10 years, 2 months ago

    Hi all
    I want to open web page but keep my header and footer so the user can use the page and can easily navigate to other areas of my site when he/she wants to.

    The actual scenario is the external web page is actually a phpbb forum. I envisage my users spending most of the time on my site using it but I want to make it easy for them to leave the forum and go to other areas. Joomla used to have a thing called a ‘wrapper’ which would do it perfectly.

    My site uses Divi so I could use their page builder or just use a usual wordpress page.

    I have found an extension called ‘Pageview’ that might do it but I wondered if there was a simple way that I have not thought of.

    Many thanks for any ideas 🙂

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  • Thread Starter storyline1

    (@storyline1)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Update:

    I have sort of managed this using this script in a page

    <object data=http://www.piphelp.co.uk/phpbb width=”650″ height=”500″> <embed src=http://www.piphelp.co.uk/phpbb width=”650″ height=”500″> </embed></object>

    The problem I have now is that I do not have anyt header menu or footer

    Can anyone help please ?

    Many thanks

    Paul

    MarkRH

    (@markrh)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Could use an <iframe> tag like this:
    <iframe src="http://www.w3schools.com" style="width: 100%; height: 400px;"></iframe>

    Change the src and height to what you want.

    Thread Starter storyline1

    (@storyline1)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Sorted 🙂

    and for the benefit of any others finding this post in the future all i had to change from above was to retype the inverted commas in the text editor window and then to get my header and footer and menus back I put the code in Divi using the ‘Full Width Code” option and hey presto it works 🙂

    now to find out how to get wordpress and phpbb to share the same members !

    Thread Starter storyline1

    (@storyline1)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks Mark 🙂 – might try that as well – which do you think is quickest – your method or the one I used ?

    MarkRH

    (@markrh)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    The iframe method is probably better since that’s how most widgets these days are handled, YouTube videos embedded, etc.

    Thread Starter storyline1

    (@storyline1)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks 🙂

    and finally, is there any way of getting rid of the vertical nav bars that appear in the window ? No matter how high i make the embedded page they awways appear and if i make the height 100% then it just shows a small portion of the embedded page.

    Thanks

    MarkRH

    (@markrh)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Doing some Googling, looks like adding scrolling="no" to the iframe tag will work:
    <iframe src="http://www.w3schools.com" style="width: 100%; height: 400px;" scrolling="no"></iframe>

    Thread Starter storyline1

    (@storyline1)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks Mark – I also did some Googling and came up with NavigationUIVisibility=”Hidden”
    which doesnt work !

    Yours Does !

    I was not being lazy – I did not want to cause you hassle but thought maybe you knew off the top of your head so to speak 😉

    Thanks a lot anyway.
    Hope this helps someone else.

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