I do a fair amount of WordPress work, and one of the issues that frequently comes up is how to show WordPress posts outside of WordPress. In most cases, it’s easy enough to use wp-blog-header and the query_posts function.<\/p>\n
That looks something like this:<\/p>\n
<?php\nrequire_once('pathtoblog\/wp-blog-header.php');\nquery_posts( array ( 'category_name' => $catname, 'posts_per_page' => 5 ) );\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\necho '<hr \/><h2>Recent Stories from the Blog about '.$catname.'<\/h2>';\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\nwhile (have_posts()) :\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the_post();\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \/\/\u00a0use the_excerpt(),\u00a0 the_permalink(), and the_title() to display the post,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \/\/ or the \"get_\" variants to populate strings with them.\nendwhile;\n?><\/pre>\nEasy, right? What about when the blog is on a subdirectory or a different server, somewhere that “require_once” won’t reach? That’s when we have to go the RSS route:<\/p>\n
<?php\u00a0\u00a0\n\u00a0 $feed = simplexml_load_file('http:\/\/stories.daddytales.com\/?feed=rss2');\u00a0\n\u00a0 if ($feed) {\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n\u00a0\u00a0 $title=$feed->channel->item[0]->title;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$link=$feed->channel->item[0]->link;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$description=$feed->channel->item[0]->description; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n\u00a0 \u00a0$pubdate=getdate(strtotime($feed->channel->item[0]->pubDate));\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n\u00a0\u00a0 unset($feed);\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n\u00a0\u00a0 $month=$pubdate['month'];\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n\u00a0\u00a0 $day=$pubdate['mday'];\n\u00a0\u00a0 $year=$pubdate['year'];\u00a0\n\u00a0}\u00a0 else {\n\u00a0\u00a0 \/\/ do something because it couldn't get the feed.\n\u00a0}\n?><\/pre>\nThe above code only illustrates getting the text items for the first item of the list. To show the text items, use a foreach loop. Here’s an example:<\/p>\n
<?php\n $feed = simplexml_load_file('http:\/\/stories.daddytales.com\/?feed=rss2');\n if ($feed) {\u00a0\u00a0\n echo '<ul>';\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\n foreach ($feed->channel->item as $feeditem) {\n echo '<li><a href=\"'.$feeditem->link.'\">'.$feeditem->title.'<\/a><br \/>'.$feeditem->description.'<\/li>';\n } \/\/ end foreach loop\n echo '<\/ul>';\n }\n?><\/pre>\nAs of this writing, you have to use the rss2 feed, because it’s the one that has a date, and I usually like to show the dates for posts.\u00a0The downside of this approach is that it’s hitting the server a second time, which is never good. But for cases where you can’t get to the wordpress files directly, it certainly does the trick! Also, if you don’t control the source of the feed, you might want to filter the text coming from it with an htmlentities or htmlspecialchar, or something like that.<\/p>\n
I hope this helps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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