Mugsy

Esmi, it’s not really that big a deal since I can just use the “Widget” method (and I already use a plugin that allows Page links to call sites), but my theme is my own creation (based on a WP template). I’ve been using my Theme for about three years, and the template it’s based on is certainly older than that.

But no matter, the “Custom Menu” solution simply allows me to link to a completely separate remote site/file. Not quite what I need.

I think my “PC Review” example describes it best. You don’t want a separate website for every subject (Drives, Monitors, Video Cards, etc). You want all of those items in the same site. And the ability to POST a review and discuss individual new items (instead of one comment field for twenty different video cards going back months or years.)

If my “use a link” idea is too cumbersome or impractical, ignore it. It was just a suggestion for another way to do what I’ve been needing: Multiple POST pages.

I think this thread has diverted WAY off the subject by focusing too much on “linking to pages” rather than WHY I suggested it in the first place.

Esmi,

I’ll review the link you provided. I have no doubt that through physically recoding WP, one can make it do almost anything, but my desire is for a “simple” solution easily accessible to everyone. Note my original request was for a way to do this through a simple link to a file other than the one that currently displays a “Page”.

Re: Mika, I apologize to you for my frustration with someone that clearly joined in… not to be helpful… but simply to accuse me of “bandwidth theft”.

Mika, you’re an idiot. You clearly have no clue what “bandwidth theft” is. If I inserted your graphics/video/etc into my site, loading them off YOUR server, THAT is “bandwidth theft”. I’ve HAD people do that, placing graphics on their site that load directly off my server rather than just copy them and save them to their own server. Displaying an ENTIRE site framed by your own is not “bandwidth theft”. Even if everyone in the world (for some strange reason) decided to access Facebook via a page in my blog, they would still be visiting Facebook, just in a smaller window. So in fact, you ARE “sending people to that site” (but as you already note, is easily thwarted with “anti-frame” scripts.)

If a COMPLETE remote site appears in a Window, content, advertisers and all, how is that “bandwidth theft”? Like someone is going to see “Facebook” inside my site and think, “Gee! I didn’t know this guy owns Facebook!” If someone clicks an advertisers link on the Facebook page, does Facebook not still make money? Do you actually believe people will visit my site just to access Facebook or YouTube?

You said, “If they want you to do it, they’ll tell you how”. THEY DO. Facebook & YouTube LOVE embedding. Facebook has plugins for using their Commenting system and Albums. YouTube provides Embed Code for every video. That is closer to “bandwidth theft” than anything else. YouTube does not “provide code to embed an entire page” because all it takes is to display the URL in a window. There’s no widespread need for users to do that.

I could, in theory, embed every YouTube video in my collection on a single Page and “steal” a LOT more bandwidth. “They probably do not” have the API structure or the CSS to handle this? I severely doubt you have any inside info of what YouTube “rather you not” do. Do you REALLY think loading index pages eat up more bandwidth or would cause more of a “slowdown” than if I created a page with 100 embedded videos on it?

And “nefarious peoples” can always find a way to do what they want anyway. They don’t need WP to do that.

But as I told “fonglh”, “Facebook” and “Youtube” are the least of my concerns. I’m more interested in multiple Post pages.

Esmi. Not familiar with “Multisite”, but a quick look at the description of the plugin seems like it was intended for something very different, and overkill for what I’m suggesting.

The “Page-of-Posts” script is new, but that note in the description: “displays posts from two specific categories” has me questioning just how much it would actually meet my needs.

fonglh, when you say “put the address in the URL bar”, you’re talking about the Browser, not the blog. Entering a URL by hand or a clicking a link that takes you to another site is not a “solution”, it’s a link. And whether you enter “into the URL bar” of your browser by hand or via a link makes no difference.

As I JUST noted, I currently HAVE a Page that is simply a “link” to my YouTube page. But why have that extra step? Why not just have my YouTube page appear inside my site when users click the link from my Toolbar?

If you can provide the PHP for the .htaccess file that would cause Page links to display a remote file/site inside my existing Blog, please provide it. Otherwise, you clearly have no idea what I’m talking about and should drop out of the conversation now.

Mika, embedding bits & pieces, like graphics or video, is “bandwidth theft”. Displaying an entire site is not. And unless you OWN Facebook or YouTube, I pretty much doubt anyone could embed your personal site via my proposal. Please re-read.

Also, how is displaying a FULL Facebook page or YouTube video list any different than simply linking to the page and sending viewers there? Whether the page appears full screen or in a frame on your site makes no difference to them so long as their ads appear.

“Bih”, I haven’t tried “Blog in a blog”, but I’ll check into it. I suspect it’s not as clear a solution as I’m suggesting here.

“Hubdubc”, I’m not sure how your idea pertains to my desire to substitute a Page with a remote file/site?

Esmi,

What does it matter to Facebook or YouTube WHOSE page you display? They ENCOURAGE linking and embedding. Whether you embed your page or someone else’s doesn’t matter to them.

The “<iframe>” option is a poor one because it produces an html window limited in size that scrolls when your content does not fit (and if your page includes frames of it’s own, I’m not sure they would embed). It would also look very unprofessional for those of us that don’t want our site to look like it was coded by a high school student.

Jake,

If an option was added to specify a URL as a new “Page”, you could specify your Facebook page, personal YouTube video index, a custom HTML page of your own design, or even other apps like a fully functional Bulletin Board (like: phpBB) or an eStore (like “OSCommerce”) inside your WP blog.

I’m not talking about embedding “someone ELSES site”.

I’ve been begging for YEARS the ability to include a second “homepage” inside my blog (one where you can have multiple posts with multiple comment fields). But every reply to my request has been some criticism of how difficult it would be to make that substantial of a change to WP.

But I could create an entire second “hidden” WP blog (unpublished URL) and link to it as a new Page.

The “fix” to prevent bandwidth theft is simple. Restrict Pages to the same root URL.