How to use wp in my own page…

  • Using WP 1.5 installed in a seperate directory.

    After a very successful install of multiple blogs with WP, I turned toward the task of customizing the look and feel of the software. I read through the codex thoroughly and I generally grasp how the template/theme structure works.

    The thing is, I already have a site up and running that uses a templating system, and I don’t know how to reconcile the two.

    What I want to do is access my page normally from the root of my site (mysite.com/index.php) and display, for example, the most recent 3 posts or maybe the blogroll… isn’t there sort of a “tag” based way that this can happen? Am I missing something really obvious?

    Also, for the sake of cleanliness, can I keep all my wp files in my wp/ directory and still somehow make the aforementioned queries from my root?

    I guess I am sort of utilizing the blogging, link management, and page system as a kind of “mini CMS”… as opposed to just a blog. Anybody know how I can achieve these results?

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  • tried using your .htaccess?

    Thread Starter osakaben

    (@osakaben)

    I’m not sure if modifying htaccess is an appropriate solution for what I want to do. Let me try to see if I can clarify it.

    Well, what I’d like to do is use things like the template tags from root instead of within my blog directory… at least, that’s what I think I want to do. Essentially, I want to have access to the power of wp’s template tags without having to use wp’s themes or templates.

    I can’t ditch my current CMS and rely on WP. WP’s admin and blogging tools are ideal for my needs, but I need to be able to call and display the content my own way.

    You can display The_Loop in a page. See the Codex. Also you can use CG-Feedread to show posts in other pages. It’s part of the CG-Powerpack download on that page.

    Thread Starter osakaben

    (@osakaben)

    Feedread looks like it would suit my needs, but only to a small extent.

    The Loop has to be involked from within the template structure, and hence the header from the themes must be called also… which is what I want to avoid.

    I could concieveably just ditch my CMS in favor of wordpress for everything if only there were some way to make wordpress accomodate multiple languages, which from what I can tell, there isn’t. According to the Codex, one guy in Japan made a bilingual version based on the 1.2 code… too old.

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