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Say I just have a dumb .php file sitting on my WP server and I wanted it to access WP info through the API, how would I go about doing that? For example if I wanted to call 

 bloginfo('url');

As I have scored myself a downvote (with no explanation) I will expound upon why I am interested in this. Sure I can access WP API from all the built-in pages. But let's say I have a page that has little to do with WP. Seems like a lot of overhead to create say a custom template page and then hook it into an actual post, all so that I can have access to a few WP API calls.

I ended up using something like this:

require $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/wp-blog-header.php';
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You mean something like this?

<?php
require 'path/to/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php';
bloginfo('url');
?>
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  • I've always used wp-load.php and define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);, I'm curious what the differences are, if any.
    – Milo
    Commented May 14, 2011 at 6:47
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    The codex is using the wp-blog-header.php file. I've just looked at the two files and it seems that wp-blog-header.php also calls wp-load.php, template-loader.php and the function wp(). The wp() function then calls the main() method of the WP class which sets up all required global variables. The constant WP_USE_THEMES is by default false and only set in the index.php which is never called here, so it I think it isn't really necessary.
    – Roman
    Commented May 14, 2011 at 10:32
  • Thank-you for the how-to as well as some discussion on the why. I am always more interested in that part.
    – mrtsherman
    Commented May 14, 2011 at 15:08

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