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Comment on How to add 5 full WordPress posts on an external html page by nikki

nikki — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:25:54 +0000

@Nikbanks-
I keep getting the same error message. Were you ever able to resolve the issue?

Comment on How to add 5 full WordPress posts on an external html page by nikbanks

nikbanks — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:34:41 +0000

there is no place to put my localhost information in this code and i keep getting an error Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2) in……on line 10
Unable to select database

I don’t know how to resolve this the info on the page since it can’t connect to the database.

I have a wordpress site and i’m trying to display the 5 recent posts from one wordpress site, in the template of another

Comment on How to add recent WordPress post exceprts on an external html page by Mena

Mena — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:53:33 +0000

i’m not expert, i said that because i found that i will put my database name and password in the html file. .. will this risk ?

Comment on How to add recent WordPress post exceprts on an external html page by jamis

jamis — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:08:46 +0000

@Mena How so?

Comment on How to add recent WordPress post exceprts on an external html page by xplain

xplain — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:40:36 +0000

Great stuff! All is working well accept for whatever reason my charset does not seem to be converting properly. I’ve got my html meta content set and I even tried adding a mysql_query but still no luck. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Comment on How to add recent WordPress post exceprts on an external html page by Mena

Mena — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:07:35 +0000

I guess this will risk my database ?

Comment on How to add recent WordPress post exceprts on an external html page by jamis

jamis — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 04:37:53 +0000

@Wade,

It shouldn’t have to be on the same server. You do have to make this adjustment, though.

On line 10 of the first script where it says “localhost”:

mysql_connect(localhost, $db_username, $db_password);

If it’s on the same server, you use localhost. If not, enter the IP address of the DB server. If your client has a CPanel account, the left rail should list the IP address of the DB server.

Comment on How to add 5 full WordPress posts on an external html page by Emre

Emre — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:02:56 +0000

Viewing the first issues. How do I show the last topics?

Comment on How to add recent WordPress post exceprts on an external html page by Wade

Wade — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:56:52 +0000

Hey Jamis, quick question. I am currently re-designing a website for a client and was going to use the code discussed here so that the client can constantly update new content on their front page for their current events. Code seems to be active in my testing server, save that the database cannot be found. I followed all of the steps correctly, which leads me to ask:

Does this index.php file have to be actively in the same root folder (on the same server, in essence) in order for it to work? Should it not be able to find the base folder no matter of the php file in question being on a different server than the blog is? If you could help me unravel this, I’d much appreciate it.

Comment on How to add 5 full WordPress posts on an external html page by MIke S

MIke S — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:14:01 +0000

Can this code be used to pull in the most recent posts from multiple blogs, all hosted on the same server, each in a separate subfolder, each using its own database? I am curious because you mentioned that the first code block has to go “BEFORE the Doctype (so the very first of your HTML)”. I was going to put the code for each database in a separate div but that comment has me curious.
TIA,
Mike