Title: Getting loop inside an iframe
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Getting loop inside an iframe

 *  [snowboy76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snowboy76/)
 * (@snowboy76)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-loop-inside-an-iframe/)
 * Tried to ask this in the “Toubleshooting” forum, got no takers.
 * I am building a theme. Modded the index.php file to remove the get_templatepart
   call. Now I wish to create a page that calls the loop via what would be a copy
   of the old index.php (minus the header and footer). Want to load this via an 
   iframe in my (now modded) index.php.
 * How do I do this? I get all sorts of failures if I take a backup of my index.
   php and rename it to news.php and try bringing that in via iframe.
 * And since someone is going to ask, I think I need the iframe because I’m using
   a jQuery horz. accordion and if the page reloads upon a click, it resets the 
   accordion or sends to the single.php. By keeping the news.php in an iframe, it
   loads in there, leaving the page untouched.
 * Thanks a head of time.
 * Joshua

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 *  [Indeedle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/indeedle/)
 * (@indeedle)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-loop-inside-an-iframe/#post-1601133)
 * I think you’re taking the hard route, the better way would be looking at the 
   jQuery accordion and finding a way to make the changes stick between pages. You
   could do this by letting it place a cookie remembering the previous state which
   it then picks on the next page load.
 * What specific accordian are you using (since there are a billion of them), you
   may find it better to alter that then loading wordpress in an iFrame.
 *  Thread Starter [snowboy76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snowboy76/)
 * (@snowboy76)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-loop-inside-an-iframe/#post-1601270)
 * Thanks Indeedle. But I’m about to throw a wrench into your suggestion. I don’t
   code. I don’t know jQuery or javascript or java or PHP or any programing language.
   None.
 * I choose the hAccordian I found at [http://letmehaveblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/haccordion-simple-horizontal-accordion.html](http://letmehaveblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/haccordion-simple-horizontal-accordion.html)(
   note: my browser tells me this is an attack site, but I know its not.) because
   its baby simple and it uses <div> and not
    ul for its panels (that is important
   to me) and it will take percentage heights and widths (also important to me).
 * Again, if there is a way to fool wordpress into acting like there is a iframe
   there, I’m fine with that too. But I can’t code that. I think this would be a
   lot easier if I could just get wordpress to load its pages into one <div>. Like
   some sort of PHP command that said “WordPress, load all files in this div.” Then
   I could put the loop in there everything would be fine. Problem solved.
 * Thanks again.
 *  [MathSmath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mathsmath/)
 * (@mathsmath)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-loop-inside-an-iframe/#post-1601499)
 * The problem is that the files you’re trying to load (yourtheme/index.php, for
   example) can’t be loaded directly. In general (with some rare exceptions like
   the login page), WordPress doesn’t work by directly accessing files like that–
   those are TEMPLATE files that should only be accessed by WordPress itself. Know
   what I mean?
 * If you want to create a single php file that makes available WordPress functions(
   like queries and a loop), you have to do what’s called “bootstrapping” WordPress–
   loading up the WordPress framework that does all that website-generating magic–
   then manually creating a query for your loop to use.
 * Try putting the following code into a file, then save it as “news.php” in the
   root of your WP install (alongside wp-login.php, wp-config.php etc.).
 *     ```
       <?
   
       	// Bootstrap WordPress. This makes most WP functions availabe to you now.
       	require( 'wp-load.php' );
   
       	// Your php file is out on its own here, so you need to manually create a query. You can find more about queries and the arguments they accept here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts
       	$args = array(
       		'post_type' => 'post'
       	);
       	query_posts($args);
   
       	// Begin the loop, just like you normally would.
       	while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
   
       ?>
   
       		<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
   
       			<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'mastercard' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
   
       			<div>
       				<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
       			</div>
   
       <?	endwhile; // end of loop ?>
       ```
   
 * Now you can call this file directly (yoursite.com/news.php), and it’ll load up
   a basic loop.
 * Hope this helps.

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-loop-inside-an-iframe/#post-1601499)
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