Embedding an external web page as a blog post

I suppose you could use an iframe to do it, but not sure if the other website would like you doing so.

That said, if you want to use iframe try this.

<iframe src="URL" width="XXXX" height="XXXX">Sorry, you do not have iframe working. Click here to go to the article.</iframe>

Hi. Thank you very much.

I got the code which I understand I just paste into the post. Thanks!

Can I please ask you about the click here to go to the article link? Are you saying that there is a link here that will let me install iframe somehow in my site? I didn’t quite catch this but I guess I need a WP plugin to make the code work?

thanks.

Not sure if I understand you but here goes.

Sorry, you do not have iframe working. Click here to go to the article.

That part is where you want to include a hyperlink to the website you want to embed the article too. This is just incase the person’s browser does not support iFrames and it allows them to still read the article on the other website.

Hi Snat.

Thank you for your help. For some reason I am not seeing this work.

I originally simply put a cropped image in the post with a /link/ to the article. But what I would like to do is simply have clicking on the /thumbnail/ bring you (in a new window) to the article itself.

Isn’t there a way to do this? I thought this was possible and that I ran across a name for it at one point.

I tried using the iframe code but for some reason it is not working. First I simply put the code in the post and then I put it in a link attached to text that says “[test iframe link]”.

https://formpig.com/blog/?p=5260

Do you know where to go to ask about this? I’d very much like to accomplish it.

Thanks.

Make sure to put the iframe code by clicking inserting it as raw html (there is a tab on the edit page that allows you to switch to HTML).

Hi. Thank you.

I think what I am missing is /how/ to put it into the HTML browser as text. Do I simply insert it in as pure text?

<iframe src=”https://archidose.org/wp/2011/09/26/grover-residence/&#8221; width=”948″>

Will putting the iframe code in there somehow get the url linked page to show up INSTEAD of any of the other text that I put in the HTML tab? Do you know what I am saying? In my site I was able to put a Category in the Menu Item so that when you click on a Menu Item Tab you go directly to the Category.

I would like to have this same action when you click on the blog thumbnail – for it to come up as the actual blog page. There seems to be a way to do this for a Menu Item by using the LINK instead of the CATEGORY option. It appears to me that if I use this Link function that selecting a Menu TAB will go directly to a URL.

Is there a way to do this with the iframe code? I mean, right now I have inserted the words “[link to article]” in the blog and then I CLICKED ON the little LINK BUTTON and I inserted the URL and pulled down to “Open In New Window”. This works but it means that the viewer has to ACTIVELY CLICK on the hyperlink.

Can you please help me understand what I am missing?

Thanks,

Jon

Hi Snat,

Can I please /also/ just ask you how I insert additional code to make the /existing/ image an active hyperlink??

<img class=”alignleft size-full wp-image-5261″ title=”universal joint on weekly dose of architecture” src=”https://formpig.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/universal-joint-on-weekly-dose-of-architecture.png&#8221; alt=”” width=”948″ />

I’d also love to know if there is a way to make the image on this page active so I can take out the ” [link to article] ” on this page and make the image itself active…

https://formpig.com/blog/?p=5260

Thanks!

Can I please /also/ just ask you how I insert additional code to make the /existing/ image an active hyperlink??

<a href="Your link here"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-5261" title="universal joint on weekly dose of architecture" src="https://formpig.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/universal-joint-on-weekly-dose-of-architecture.png" alt="" width="948" /></a>

Not sure what you mean in your other question, but by using the HTML code

<iframe src="https://archidose.org/wp/2011/09/26/grover-residence/" width="948">

It will embed in your post / page. You need to insert it in the HTML bit for it to have any affect. Unless I am mistaken (I often check these forums either when I just woke up, or very sleepy) the code above is what you want. If it is not, I will look over again and work out what you mean and get you sorted.

Hi. Thank you for the fantastic help. I really appreciate it.

I can try and move forward now. Thanks for the reminder on insterting code while in html. I keep forgetting this.

I do have two issues here. Not sure if you can also help with these or not but I can move on if it is too much. Anyway.

The second piece of code is /pushing/ the bottom part of my blog over to the left. I am not sure what is causing this but I post the link here: https://formpig.com/blog/?p=5260

Also, I got the first piece of code working. Thanks! Is it possible to insert something that will get this new url to open in a /new/ window instead of taking the place of the page I am in? You know how you can tell a link to open in a new window? Is it possible to tell the code to cause this to happen with the code you kindly supplied?

Again a big THANK YOU. Great to move forward once in awhile.

– Jon

I do have two issues here. Not sure if you can also help with these or not but I can move on if it is too much. Anyway.

If by second bit, you mean the iFrame code you can mess around with the bit called “width=XX” to change how wide it should be. Change the value and see if that helps.

Also, I got the first piece of code working. Thanks! Is it possible to insert something that will get this new url to open in a /new/ window instead of taking the place of the page I am in? You know how you can tell a link to open in a new window? Is it possible to tell the code to cause this to happen with the code you kindly supplied?

It’s simple to get any link to open in a new page, just use target=”_blank”. Based on the HTML I given you yesterday, it would be like this.

<a target="_blank" href="Your link here"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-5261" title="universal joint on weekly dose of architecture" src="https://formpig.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/universal-joint-on-weekly-dose-of-architecture.png" alt="" width="948" /></a>

Hi Snat.

Thank you /so/ much for this help.

I’m looking forward to flapping my wings wildly as I try and take off with this information.

I really appreciate your help.

Regards,

Jon