Opening external web page within a wordpress page

  • Resolved storyline1

    (@storyline1)


    9 years ago

    Hi all
    I want to open web page but keep my header and footer so the user can use the page and can easily navigate to other areas of my site when he/she wants to.

    The actual scenario is the external web page is actually a phpbb forum. I envisage my users spending most of the time on my site using it but I want to make it easy for them to leave the forum and go to other areas. Joomla used to have a thing called a ‘wrapper’ which would do it perfectly.

    My site uses Divi so I could use their page builder or just use a usual wordpress page.

    I have found an extension called ‘Pageview’ that might do it but I wondered if there was a simple way that I have not thought of.

    Many thanks for any ideas ??

Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total)
  • Thread Starter storyline1

    (@storyline1)

    Update:

    I have sort of managed this using this script in a page

    <object data=https://www.piphelp.co.uk/phpbb width=”650″ height=”500″> <embed src=https://www.piphelp.co.uk/phpbb width=”650″ height=”500″> </embed></object>

    The problem I have now is that I do not have anyt header menu or footer

    Can anyone help please ?

    Many thanks

    Paul

    MarkRH

    (@markrh)

    Could use an <iframe> tag like this:
    <iframe src="https://www.w3schools.com" style="width: 100%; height: 400px;"></iframe>

    Change the src and height to what you want.

    Thread Starter storyline1

    (@storyline1)

    Sorted ??

    and for the benefit of any others finding this post in the future all i had to change from above was to retype the inverted commas in the text editor window and then to get my header and footer and menus back I put the code in Divi using the ‘Full Width Code” option and hey presto it works ??

    now to find out how to get wordpress and phpbb to share the same members !

    Thread Starter storyline1

    (@storyline1)

    Thanks Mark ?? – might try that as well – which do you think is quickest – your method or the one I used ?

    MarkRH

    (@markrh)

    The iframe method is probably better since that’s how most widgets these days are handled, YouTube videos embedded, etc.

    Thread Starter storyline1

    (@storyline1)

    Thanks ??

    and finally, is there any way of getting rid of the vertical nav bars that appear in the window ? No matter how high i make the embedded page they awways appear and if i make the height 100% then it just shows a small portion of the embedded page.

    Thanks

    MarkRH

    (@markrh)

    Doing some Googling, looks like adding scrolling="no" to the iframe tag will work:
    <iframe src="https://www.w3schools.com" style="width: 100%; height: 400px;" scrolling="no"></iframe>

    Thread Starter storyline1

    (@storyline1)

    Thanks Mark – I also did some Googling and came up with NavigationUIVisibility=”Hidden”
    which doesnt work !

    Yours Does !

    I was not being lazy – I did not want to cause you hassle but thought maybe you knew off the top of your head so to speak ??

    Thanks a lot anyway.
    Hope this helps someone else.

Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total)
  • The topic ‘Opening external web page within a wordpress page’ is closed to new replies.