Andy Fletcher » Wordpress http://www.tomcatuk.net Do, or do not, there is no try Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:49:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 How to use a PHP include with WordPress http://www.tomcatuk.net/how-to-use-a-php-include-with-wordpress/ http://www.tomcatuk.net/how-to-use-a-php-include-with-wordpress/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:45:59 +0000 Andy http://www.tomcatuk.net/?p=64 This took longer than I thought to figure out. I wanted to use a server side include so I can use files on my webserver, but that are not within my WordPress installation. I tried a bunch of stuff, but luckily was able to see the error messages when it failed by viewing the source code of the WordPress blog. For instance, I got “syntax error, unexpected T_STRING”. This is the right code (assuming, of course, that the file you want is on the same server, but just in a directory outside the WordPress installation):

<?php include(ABSPATH . ‘/filename.html’); ?>

ABSPATH means, as you can no doubt imagine, absolute path. So if the file you wanted was in a sub directory such as “myfiles” you’d change the above to:

<?php include(ABSPATH . ‘/myfiles/filename.html’); ?>

You’d typically be calling for a file with an extension such as .html, .htm or .php. I need to do this as I plan to merge a new WordPress blog into an existing site, and the site has CSS style menus driven with an unordered list of links in a separate html file which I only want to have to edit in the one place.

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Made my comments now to have “Nofollow” removed by default as I don’t agree with the whole nofollow thing. I moderate comment, and I do check what the comment links to. Regardless of the quality of the comment, if it loks like it’s purpose is to promote some “bad” area of the web it just doesn’t get published. So There.

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