Title: Retrieving wordpress info (excerpt) via HTML or JavaScript?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Retrieving wordpress info (excerpt) via HTML or JavaScript?

 *  [hscampbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hscampbell/)
 * (@hscampbell)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieving-wordpress-info-excerpt-via-html-or-javascript/)
 * Trying this question again because I think I posted in the wrong group. Or else
   no one has an answer 🙁
 * I am using WP as the blog on my site, but the rest is in HTML as produced by 
   Publisher.
 * I can obviously add a hyperlink to the blog front page (index.html), but what
   I’d like to do is have a box on my site’s (HTML) front page that has a post exerpt
   with a <!–more> tag or just a hyperlink to the blog page.
 * I’ve searched but cannot find how I can do this. Am relatively new to both HTML
   and CSS, but have made good progress so far — but am stumped on this one.
 * Is it doable?
 * Thanks in advance,
    hsc

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieving-wordpress-info-excerpt-via-html-or-javascript/#post-131545)
 * If the “front page” can be altered to a PHP document (i.e. index.php), adding
   content from WordPress is simple, because turning a regular page into a WordPress
   one just involves adding this right at the top:
 * `<?php
    require_once("./wp-blog-header.php"); ?>
 * If your blog resides in a subdirectory, say “/blog”, then you change it to:
 * `<?php
    require_once("./blog/wp-blog-header.php"); ?>
 * Then to include a recent post on the front page, add something like this where
   you want it to appear:
 * `<?php
    $posts = get_posts('numberposts=1'); foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp();?
   > <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title() ?></a></h3> <?php
   the_excerpt() ?> <?php endforeach; ?>
 * Play with the layout–look at your blog’s index template to see the tags you presently
   use on it.
 *  Thread Starter [hscampbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hscampbell/)
 * (@hscampbell)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieving-wordpress-info-excerpt-via-html-or-javascript/#post-131678)
 * Thanks, Kafkaesqui – This did work!
 *  It was easy to turn the index page into php, but I confess it took me several
   hours to figure out where in the file the extra code should go. I finally figured
   it out, though, and have it just like I wanted it (If you want to see it, it’s
   at [http://www.dialogicconsulting.com](http://www.dialogicconsulting.com)).
 * It’s a bit of a workaround, as Publisher automatically creates its own .pub files
   which are then automatically turned into HTML — so I won’t be able to reopen 
   this in Publisher to edit; but since I only plan on having the extracts on the
   indext page (outside of the WP pages), now that I’ve kinda figured it out, I 
   figure I can hand edit if I need to redesign or change content in Publisher.
 * Again, thanks for the help!
 *  Thread Starter [hscampbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hscampbell/)
 * (@hscampbell)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieving-wordpress-info-excerpt-via-html-or-javascript/#post-132188)
 * A few more questions now that I’m in it:
 * I switched to the_excerpt_reloaded so that I could limit the length of the content
   excerpts. It’s working great except for two things
    (1) I have forced_more_link
   set to false — the problem is that there’s no return following excerpts that 
   are less than what’s been established — so the next excerpt title doesn’t start
   on a new line. (2) any ideas how to determine the width? I’ve tried tables, divs
   etc and can’t make it seem to “listen” to the parameters.
 * Any help appreciated 🙂
 *  [jpepper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpepper/)
 * (@jpepper)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieving-wordpress-info-excerpt-via-html-or-javascript/#post-132312)
 * Perfect. As always thank Kafkaesqui.

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