Title: Using WP Plugins outside blog install directory
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Using WP Plugins outside blog install directory

 *  [calrockx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/calrockx/)
 * (@calrockx)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wp-plugins-outside-blog-install-directory/)
 * I’ve got my WP installed on my site in the /blog/ direcotry. Now is it possible
   to use a plugin outside that directory, to call it outside to, say, the /about/
   directory? I’ve got a plugin for last.fm that displays the last few songs I listened
   to, and I’d like to make it work outside the blog section, just not sure if there’s
   a way to call it up to another part of the site….

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 *  [miloandrew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miloandrew/)
 * (@miloandrew)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wp-plugins-outside-blog-install-directory/#post-842030)
 * I’m assuming that you are using standard HTML for most of your site, but are 
   using WordPress for the /blog portion?
 * If so, the short answer is NO, you can’t use the Plugin outside of wordpress.
 * The much longer “maybe you already knew this, so I should stop giving advice 
   that wasn’t asked for” answer is:
 * I’ve been making sites for years, and I’ve never found an easier way to keep 
   a website up to date than with WordPress. I’d consider using it to manage your
   entire site, not just your blog. Why? For reasons exactly like this – there are
   lots of awesome plugins and community submissions for WordPress. Stuff that would
   take hours to recreate for your own site. Why bother when WordPress can do all
   the heavy lifting for you?
 * There are lots of ways to manage your whole site with WordPress – Mostly it is
   done with the “pages” function and using Page templates to handle any custom 
   HTML pages that you’d like to use that fall outside of your standard template
   type stuff.
 * Check out: [http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Lastnode/Wordpress_CMS](http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Lastnode/Wordpress_CMS)
 * or just google “wordpress CMS” and check out some of the pages that come up.
 * CMS stands for content management system and WordPress is actually well suited
   for it!
 * 🙂
 * Best of luck,
    A

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [miloandrew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miloandrew/)
 * Last activity: [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wp-plugins-outside-blog-install-directory/#post-842030)
 * Status: not resolved

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