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I'm a bit of a PHP MySQL newb but i feel i need to bypass WordPress for the frontend of a site i'm building (it is mainly just RSS and JSON feeds). I was wondering if there are any tutorials or advice I should follow on this or just cut straight to it?

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You want to include wp-load.php at the beginning of your script/page like this :

require_once("/path/to/wordpress/wp-load.php");

You then have access to any WP functions. To manipulate the DB directly, have a look at wpdb.

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Great thanks. Does it still produce the same server load to call wp-load.php as it does call a normal WP page? I'm guessing both this methods would cause more load then just writing straight PHP and MySQL to talk to the database. – agileapricot Jul 26 '11 at 10:08
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Yes it would cause more server load (though how significant I don't know), if you want to dump WP completely, then you can just talk to the DB directly with default PHP functions. Here's the database description for WP. – mike23 Jul 26 '11 at 10:17
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You can even include wp-load.php without having it load the theme related files and functions to reduce the load.

define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require_once('path/to/wordpress/wp-load.php')
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