use a plugin function outside WordPress

  • I snagged the Hollo Dolly plugin and modified it very slightly to make a random tagline function to use on my blog — worked great — and I’m just wondering if it’s possible for me to use that new function on files outside my WordPress directory to show the rotating taglines out there too… I tried calling the function with simple php require, like:

    <?php require("../blog/wp-content/plugins/randomtagline.php"); ?>

    …but outside the WordPress directory, the wptexturize function contained within Hello Dolly (and thus my adapted function) throws a call-to-undefined error. That makes perfect sense to me, but I have no idea if a workaround for this is even possible, let alone how I’d begin to do it. Any sugestions?

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  • copy the wptexturize function and put it on that same file.

    At the top of the page before anything else (hopefully it’s a .php file) you should have this:
    <?php
    require('./path-to-your-blog/wp-blog-header.php');
    ?>
    and after that you can use any WP template tag or WP feature on that page. The above code makes any file “WP aware”.

    Thread Starter rwl

    (@rwl)

    Gotta love the simple solution staring me right in the face! Thanks alphaoide, that was the quickest reply I’ve ever had to anything. ^^

    Thread Starter rwl

    (@rwl)

    As good as alphaoide’s suggestion was, moshu’s has topped it… thanks a ton, moshu, that is exactly what I was looking for and I hope to make good use of it

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