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I have a bit of content in a PHP file that is designed to live inside an iframe on another page. The PHP file is very simple-- here it is in its entirety right now:

<div class="content-tos">
    <?php
        // get the terms of service from other page
        $getpage = get_page_by_path('/terms-of-service');
        echo apply_filters('the_content', $getpage->post_content);
    ?>
</div>

Obviously I need to include something above these lines of code so the PHP has access to the Wordpress core functions (like get_page_by_path())... but if I use get_header() I get my entire header, nav bar, Google Analytics tracking code etc, which then appear inside the iframe, which I definitely don't want.

Is there a way in Wordpress to do some kind of include that will give me the basic Wordpress API but won't draw a full HTML header, etc, etc, etc from the header.php file?

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  • so the PHP has access to the Wordpress core functions. I don't understand, what do you need to get from the header
    – Pieter Goosen
    Commented Aug 31, 2015 at 18:30

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If you don't want get_header, then don't call get_header(). It's a simple as that, the get_header function is not where all of the WP core is initialized. The simplest way to do this is using the template hierarchy to create a template for a specific page slug or id.

From the WP Admin, create a page at the URL you want to use.

http://example.com/tos

Then create a template file that follows the rules for overriding the template for that specific page.

wp-content/themes/<your-theme>/page-tos.php

From there you can put whatever you want in page-tos.php and have full access to WP functions and API. And you can disable it by simply unpublishing the page from the WP Admin as well.

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Think perhaps you're confusing get_header() with the file wp-blog-header.php. The first is a theming function generally used to pull stuff into the <head> section of your HTML. The file wp-blog-header.php essentially bootstraps WordPress.

Try this:

<div class="content-tos">
    <?php
        require('/path/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');
        // get the terms of service from other page
        $getpage = get_page_by_path('/terms-of-service');
        echo apply_filters('the_content', $getpage->post_content);
    ?>
</div>
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