Using PHP include and WordPress

It is possible, and done quite often.

At the top of your php file, add this to make it WordPress aware:

<?php
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require(./blog/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

Just make certain the require line is pointing to the correct location of wp-blog-header.php. From there you can use all of those WordPress template goodies… Note that if you’re not using the theming features of 1.5 in your page, set the define to false.

would the same thing be possible for two blogs somehow?
we have to blogs, and we would like to print headers and teasers of both blogs to our portal?
how could that be done?

Look into the various RSS aggregation tools out there. For WordPress CG-FeedRead is a good plugin:

https://www.chait.net/index.php?p=238

For a general, non-WP tool, look at Magpie:

https://magpierss.sourceforge.net/
https://laughingmeme.org/magpie_blog/?p=61

thanx for the tipp.

so in other words, i’ll have to integrate at least one of the two blogs as an RSS feed? and otherwise its not possible to print 2 different blogs to one page?

It’s possible but somewhat tricky. Since each blog uses different configs/db setups, it would require a process of connecting, disconnecting and then reconnecting to each individually.

would you know a support or codex thread that explains this procedure?

actually upon reading the CG-feedread instructions i think i might not have made myself clear. i don’t want to mix the two blogs, i would like them to print side by side, each in their own div or whatever… is that easier?

FYI, CG-FeedRead is itself a ‘general, non-WP tool’, I’ve just included a “plugin stub” to include it into WP. The core code has no WP dependency. ??

Now, as for showing two separate blogs side by side, that’s fairly tricky. But it depends upon the end result.

If you don’t mind losing some formatting, you could easily use CG-FeedRead to pull the rss feed from each blog, and use it to display excerpts on your ‘portal page’ side by side. However, if you really want to be showing the actual full formatting/control of the two blogs side by side, you either need to do a bunch of complex coding (as the database connection would have to be shutdown, and the entire WP blog system restarted, and it wasn’t meant to be used that way…), or use frames or something.

The ‘feed next to feed’ approach is easiest, as your portal page doesn’t actually need to ever directly include WP itself. If you need help with this, let me know. You just need to include cg-feedread.php directly in your PHP portal page, make two separate calls to getSomeFeed with the URLs of your two blogs, then output each DIV with the feed output. You’d probably use CSS to float the DIVs side by side or something.

You can also use the wp-style FeedRead output option in order to get the output wrappered sort of like a bunch of blog posts, which makes it MUCH easier to CSS as if it was a blog entry. I know one guy using FeedRead to actually run the front page of his site, just in that manner. (Which is beyond the intended/coded use, but cool that it can do the job!).

-d

thanx so much. i will play around with this some and then maybe get back to you if questions come up…

i guess i do need some more help here. so basically i need to use php include here, right? and i want to include cg-feedread.php that is inside the wp-content/plugins/cg-plugins, is that correct?
now how do i then add the functions getSomeFeed and such?