Title: Include External HTML as Pages
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Include External HTML as Pages

 *  [caydel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caydel/)
 * (@caydel)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-external-html-as-pages/)
 * Hello. I have a unique problem I want to solve.
 * I have begun logging an IRC channel for a site of mine, and would like to post
   the logs as a page off the blog.
 * The logging software dumps the HTML output of the logger to my a subdirectory
   of my site, ie. [http://www.domain.com/irclogs](http://www.domain.com/irclogs)
 * The HTML files have the following structure:
 * [http://www.domain.com/irclogs/index.html](http://www.domain.com/irclogs/index.html)
   
   [http://www.domain.com/irclogs/2006-12-07.html](http://www.domain.com/irclogs/2006-12-07.html)
   [http://www.domain.com/irclogs/2006-12-06.html](http://www.domain.com/irclogs/2006-12-06.html)
 * where index.html displays a calendar which lets the user navigate to the desired
   day to view the log of. Each YYYY-MM-DD.html file is the log of that specific
   day.
 * Now I would like to be able to access these in WordPress, ie, access them as 
   pages from within wordpress, integrate them into the rest of the site etc.
 * Is there any way I can read the contents of the index.html into a page, and then
   treat each of the daily log dumps as pages within WordPress?
 * I’m sorry if it is a bit of a vague question – I will try to be more specific
   wherever I can!
 * Thank you in advance for your help!

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 *  Thread Starter [caydel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caydel/)
 * (@caydel)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-external-html-as-pages/#post-488273)
 * Ok, let me rephrase:
 * I want to create a page template that reads in content from an external HTML 
   file… ok, I can do that.
 * Is there any way I can set it so that any links contained within the read in 
   HTML file will also open in the same page template?
 * ie, so I have a page template which reads in the index.php. I want to be able
   to click on a link to go to the previous month, and have that as well open within
   the page template… is this making any better sense?
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-external-html-as-pages/#post-488274)
 * Bumping every 15 minutes is not productive. On the contrary… In this way you 
   just successfully removed your post from the “no reply” topics queue where every
   helper starts when coming online.
    Patience is very much valued around here!
 *  Thread Starter [caydel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caydel/)
 * (@caydel)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-external-html-as-pages/#post-488279)
 * Moshu – it was not meant as an intentional bump – rather, I saw a few things 
   about templates, and decided to rephrase my question in light of what I had just
   learned.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-external-html-as-pages/#post-488284)
 * Say… are you able to configure your web site so that directory browsing is ENabled
   on that directory with the logs in it?
 *  Thread Starter [caydel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caydel/)
 * (@caydel)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-external-html-as-pages/#post-488286)
 * yes, I alreaady have
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-external-html-as-pages/#post-488291)
 * so, you could, arguably, include a link to the directory as part of your blog’s
   page navigation?
 * (search here for the plugin “redirectify” to see where I’m headed)
 *  Thread Starter [caydel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caydel/)
 * (@caydel)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-external-html-as-pages/#post-488295)
 * ok, but I am not looking to redirect to an external page. I want to import this
   constantly changing dynamic directory so that they act exactly like part of wordpress.
 * I can easily do what I need for the index.html file by using a custom page template
   and <?php include(‘irclogs/index.html’)?> or whatever in place of the blog post.
 * The problem lies in that a new file for this is created daily. Perhaps even more
   often. And I can’t create a new page template with an include for every generated
   HTML dump.
 * This doesn’t even get into the fact that I would be forced then to create a new
   page for every page template/html dump…
 * Ideally, what I want to do is create a single page template which will pull in
   the index.html file. What I can’t figure out is where to go from there. I need
   it to work so that every link I click on in the index.html file opens the next
   file, again included into a WordPress page template again.
 * This way, I don’t have to worry about updating these etc. across thousands of
   manual pages every time I make a minor update…
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-external-html-as-pages/#post-488296)
 * Hmm. So, basically you want the hundreds of html files to act as a “database”
   so that they would be pulled into a WP Page template…
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-external-html-as-pages/#post-488297)
 * Well, the page template creation seems to be something you’ve actually already
   done.
 * So I’m wondering if there’s some way to use a cron job for part of the rest of
   it?
 * And really, I don’t have any idea – just that it seems as if a cron job could
   dump stuff out to file for you, and perhaps then a “grab” in php (heh…. I’m not
   a programmer!) would pull that output into your page template. Which you would
   of course style using css….
 * Just thinking….
 *  Thread Starter [caydel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caydel/)
 * (@caydel)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-external-html-as-pages/#post-488299)
 * moshu – for now. The software I am using dumps them to these files.
 * Ideally, I want something that will create a IRCLogs->Year->Month->Day structure
   by automatically creating a new page in the database, and directly adding the
   information…
 * Algorithm something like
 * begin:
 * If page.thisyear does not exist
    create page.thisyear if page.thismonth does 
   not exist create page.thismonth If page.today does not exist create page.today
 * while (notEnding){
    page.today.append(latestmessage) }
 * I have a library to connect to and monitor the chatroom. So, I want to write 
   a program which will use this library, and dump each line directly onto the end
   of the page for the day, and creating the heirarchy of pages as it needs to…
 * I guess I will need to start looking into how to create pages via database manipulation…
 * Does WP have an API?

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