Today, I figured out how to embed a Word Press post into an external website that resides on a separate server. with a little bit of help from Corvid Works and a page on SimplePie’s website, I got it working.

Here’s my sample page. This is a page on a client’s site that is currently pulling in posts from my cheese blog.

I had afew problems getting the code from Corvid to work exactly the way I wanted, which was to embed a full post, not just an excerpt. A quick search in the SimplePie documentation got me straightened out.

Follow these steps:

Stupid Assumptions

You know HTML and can edit an HTML file, know how to load and download files to a web server.

OK, here we go:

1. Download SimplePie
2. Unzip the file
3. In the root directory of your website create a folder named: inc
4. Open up the SimplePie folder that you just unzipped.
5. Copy the simplepie.inc document into the root folder of your web site.
6. Open the web page that you want to embed your wordpress posts into.
7. If it is not a .php file, rename it to yourpagename.php.
8. Insert the following code into the top of the page (above the <DOC TYPE> tag. (Note: In php, the // marks are comment tags. )

<?php

// Make sure SimplePie is included. You may need to change this to match the location of simplepie.inc.
require_once('./inc/simplepie.inc');

// We'll process this feed with all of the default options.
$feed = new SimplePie();

// Set which feed to process.Replace yoursiteurl with your web site address
$feed->set_feed_url('http://yoursiteurl.com/feeds');

// Run SimplePie.
$feed->init();

// This makes sure that the content is sent to the browser as text/html and the UTF-8 character set (since we didn't change it).
$feed->handle_content_type();

?>

Once you’ve done this, decide where you want the posts to show up. In the HTML code, insert the following code:

<div class="header">
<h1><a href="<?php echo $feed->get_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $feed->get_title(); ?></a></h1>
<p><?php echo $feed->get_description(); ?></p>
</div>

<?php
/*
Here, we'll loop through all of the items in the feed, and $item represents the current item in the loop.
*/
foreach ($feed->get_items() as $item):
?>

<div class="item">
<h2><a href="<?php echo $item->get_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $item->get_title(); ?></a></h2>
<p><?php echo $item->get_content(); ?></p>
<p><small>Posted on <?php echo $item->get_date('j F Y | g:i a'); ?></small></p>
</div>

<?php endforeach; ?>

Upload your page to your server and you should now see your latest posts, in full.