Using WP functions outside of WP folder

jgramins,

Try with require_once

https://alexcoleman.net/2008/quick-tip-how-to-enable-wordpress-functions-on-non-root-pages/

The title of the post says non-root, but the example given matches your case. Page at the root of server, and WP in its own directory.

thanks b_t it works nice – would you know how to avoid passing on to wordpress the data from the GET?
It creates a “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.” which i could clean from within the code – i would love a cleaner solution – have been searching for a sort of unset on $_GET but can’t find…

Are you trying to display the loop in the main page outside of WordPress? Search bar?

Looking at this site https://www.livexp.net/wordpress/get-wordpress-permalink-outside-of-the-loop.html, it seems like you have to add echo to make the get work outside of WP

The example here is <?php echo get_permalink(10); ?>, but you could use it with other functions.

Other potentially helpful reading
https://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/06/24/retrieve-and-get-wordpress-post-id-outside-the-loop-as-php-variable/

https://www.voodish.co.uk/articles/display-wordpress-content-from-outside-wordpress/

what i am trying to do: getting rid of the parameters

i would like this page outside wordpress to get automatically the header of my current theme, and -stop- . but this set of pages (mostly confirmations for email subscription’s options) is getting some parameters ($_GET) – wp is adding a slash for some reason and the parameters of those page are passed on to the wp internal mechanisms which are trying to find relevant content and which are failing (no page corresponding to the query).

At the moment, i resolved the issue using some redirects on the “outside page” towards some subpage (real wp inner ones) which i don’t display in my theme’s menu.
I would love to find a real clean solutions and not just a simple hack like that one (head redirects).

I wonder if this is a solution for you, just found a post on the site of a member of this forum, il filosofo, talking about WP and the Vanilla forum. There is a common problem about backslashes, when integrating.

https://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/2006/09/08/integrating-vanilla-forum-and-wordpress-themes/

In one of the comment replies, he says:

The slash problem seems to be caused by the fact that recent versions of WordPress slash everything that gets posted. Unfortunately, Vanilla isn’t expecting this.

You should keep those slashes from appearing initially by adding, right after require_once(’../wp-blog-header.php’);, the following lines:

$_GET = stripslashes_deep($_GET );
$_POST = stripslashes_deep($_POST );
$_COOKIE = stripslashes_deep($_COOKIE);

Give it a try!

hey thanks for the reply – i will give it a go!