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WordPress

Posted by Nyron Telemaque
Nyron Telemaque
1,987 Points

Wordpress blog injection

This is the thing. I am building a site and I want just the most 3-5 recent post shown on the home page. The rest of the site was not built on the WP platform. How do I approach this

Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points
Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points

So your home page is a static html page and not a part of wordpress?

2 Answers

Andrew Rowberry
Andrew Rowberry
3,579 Points
Andrew Rowberry
Andrew Rowberry
3,579 Points

you need to download wordpress onto your root directory then use a php include to the wp folder on your index.php thats outside the wp folder in your root dirrctory, next put the basic wordpress loop where you want the posts to be displayed.

Andrew Rowberry
Andrew Rowberry
3,579 Points
Andrew Rowberry
Andrew Rowberry
3,579 Points

include wp onto your index.php like this <?php require 'yourwpfolder/wp-blog-header.php' ?>

Nyron Telemaque
Nyron Telemaque
1,987 Points

Thank you very much Andrew!