Integrating WordPress with Your Website

Question

I am intergrating WordPress with a non WordPress site. I have installed WordPress at my evercam.io/wordpress and I have followed the codex and I have been able to display a list of posts on a static page that I have on my site at evercam.io/blog. I don't want the visitors to my site to ever get to the WordPress theme.

Where the problem lies is if the user clicks on the title of a post that is listed at my site.com/blog it brings them to evercam.io/wordpress/the-post-title.

I have tried to create an equivalent of single.php on my site using:

<?php
// Include WordPress
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require('/server/path/to/your/wordpress/site/htdocs/blog/wp-blog-header.php');
query_posts('showposts=1');
?>

<div class="col-md-8 col-sm-8 col-xs-12">

 <?php while (have_posts()): the_post(); ?>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<p><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="red">Read more...</a></p>
<?php endwhile; ?>

</div>

So if someone visits evercam.io/single they will see a single post. What I need however, is the title of each post on my blog page to link to each corresponding single post.

Is this possible at all? I have gone through many blog posts and the closest possible solution I found was to disable the link on the blog post title which doesn't really solve my problem!

Answer 1

If I understand your needs correctly, you would like to have your /blog page and post items aggregated and driven by WordPress without exposing the user to anything WordPress.

To solve the problem with "wordpress" being in the url, you should actually be putting the entire contents of the WordPress install into the website.tld/blog directory. Make sure you update any custom code you wrote to match the new location.

The next step would be to use style information from the current look of your website on the active theme's style.css, modifying it to change the look of the generated lists and pages.

I don't think a single.php can be used anywhere outside of a theme directory.

Answer 2

I was actually able to achieve what I wanted with this also. http://blog.beacontechnologies.com/how-to-pull-wordpress-posts-into-external-website/