Title: Embed Posts in HTML Page
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Embed Posts in HTML Page

 *  Resolved [snugabug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyberphonics/)
 * (@cyberphonics)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embed-posts-in-html-page/)
 * I need some step by step help here guys.
 * I’ve been trying to figure out how to embed WordPress posts INTO a pre-existing
   website. All of the tutorials I’ve found, I’ve had trouble with because most 
   want you to use PHP on a page with a .php extension which I don’t want. I want
   to incorporate the PHP into a .html page.
 * I searched here (found this topic [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-php-to-embed-wordpress-posts?replies=4](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-php-to-embed-wordpress-posts?replies=4))
   and other places for tutorials.
 * The few tutorials I found that mention using PHP on an HTML page say that I need
   to add a few lines to an .htaccess file to tell the server to parse the PHP on
   that HTML page as if it was a PHP page. The problem is that they don’t say where
   to put it or what to do after you add it to make it work.
 * I have Godaddy. I installed WordPress. I saw that it has an .htaccess file in
   the wordpress directory. I tried adding the lines the tutorials said to that.
   I also tried just creating a new .htaccess in the folder where the actual HTML
   file with the PHP inserted is located.
 * In both cases, when I saved it and refreshed the HTML page, it gave me a 403 
   forbidden yada yada error. I Googled that and places said it’s either a permissions
   error or an .htaccess file blocking access but none of the places detailed how
   to fix that.
 * Anyway, I started over entirely using this tutorial:
    [http://www.corvidworks.com/articles/wordpress-content-on-other-pages](http://www.corvidworks.com/articles/wordpress-content-on-other-pages)
 * Left as an html page, it showed a (read more) link so at least I’m getting farther
   because the PHP from the other tutorials I tried broke the page entirely lol 
   When I changed it to a php page, I get this error:
 * **Warning: require(./wordpress/wp-load.php) [function.require]: failed to open
   stream: No such file or directory **
 * I can’t show you the website I’m working on so pretend it’s [http://www.example.com](http://www.example.com).
   My first question is how am I supposed to link to the right directory as far 
   as syntax goes? The tutorial says to start with this code:
 *     ```
       <?php
       // Include WordPress
       define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
       require('./wordpress/wp-load.php');
       query_posts('showposts=1');
       ?>
       ```
   
 * I kept my directory name as wordpress just until I can get the hang of this so
   it would be [http://www.example.com/wordpress/wp-load.php](http://www.example.com/wordpress/wp-load.php).
   My HTML file I’m trying to insert the PHP into is in a different directory in
   [http://www.example.com/other/blah.html](http://www.example.com/other/blah.html).
 * How do I write the syntax in the HTML page for it to point to the proper wp-load
   directory?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embed-posts-in-html-page/#post-3039378)
 * Have you looked at [integrating WordPress with your web site](http://codex.wordpress.org/Integrating_Wordpress_with_Your_Website)?
 *  Thread Starter [snugabug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyberphonics/)
 * (@cyberphonics)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embed-posts-in-html-page/#post-3039381)
 * Yeah that’s one of the tutorials that didn’t help.
 *  Thread Starter [snugabug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyberphonics/)
 * (@cyberphonics)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embed-posts-in-html-page/#post-3039382)
 * How am I supposed to write the link in the above code to get it to link to the
   proper place?
 *  Thread Starter [snugabug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyberphonics/)
 * (@cyberphonics)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embed-posts-in-html-page/#post-3039412)
 * Ugh… I’ve been at this for two days and I’m starting to see why so many people
   don’t use wordpress. It may be “feature rich” and able to do “a lot” but what
   good is it if you can’t get it to do something very simple like display posts
   without having to be a programmer?
 * I really wanted to use wordpress instead of tumblr, which makes embedding posts
   easy with one line of code, but if I can’t embed the posts seamlessly into my
   html page, it’s pointless. I don’t want to build my site around wordpress or 
   have it on a standalone page skinned to mimic the rest of my site. I just want
   to display the posts.
 * I’ll see if I can find someone who can help somewhere else and just post the 
   answer here when I find it.
 *  Thread Starter [snugabug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyberphonics/)
 * (@cyberphonics)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embed-posts-in-html-page/#post-3039444)
 * Solution found on Stackoverflow!
 * They said that instead of using ./ to use the ../ in front of the path on the
   require line and that worked like a charm. Amazing it took two days for me to
   find someone who was able to answer something so simple lol
 * Thanks everyone! Now I can move on to the good stuff lol

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