Switch WordPress database outside WordPress

I have two WordPress blogs on the same domain/server – one regular posts the other videos – plus other non-Wordpress pages which have a box with the latest blog posts using this:

<?php
require($_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] . ‘/blog/wp-load.php’);
$args = array(
‘cat’ => 5, // Only source posts from a specific category
‘posts_per_page’ => 1 // Specify how many posts you’d like to display
);
$latest_posts = new WP_Query( $args );
if ( $latest_posts->have_posts() ) {
while ( $latest_posts->have_posts() ) {
$latest_posts->the_post(); ?>
<span class=”post_title”><?php the_title(); ?></span>
” title=”<?php the_title(); ?>”>
<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { ?>
<span class=”post_thumbnail”><?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?></span>
<?php } ?>

<span class=”post_excerpt”><?php the_excerpt(); ?></span>
<? }
}
wp_reset_postdata();
?>

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All works as I want it. However we now want a second box under the first on the same pages with posts from the other blog (video). As wp-load.php has already been included for the first blog box it gets posts from the wrong blog.

How can I swap the database connection to the settings for the other (video) blog?

Thanks

• This topic was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by bdbrown.