Embed Wordpress post summaries on PW page

[icreation]

According to this page http://codex.wordpress.org/Integrating_Wordpress_with_Your_Website it should be easy to bring Wordpress posts onto a page.

However, using this method in PW it is giving me an Internal Server Error. Any idea how this could be done, the databases are in the same location.

[horst]

Haha, funny sentence, >> "it should be easy" <<

But seriously, how have you setup this?

Are both programms running on the same server and within the same domain? Or are they separated by subdomains?

But regardless, I would create a script within the WordPr*ss site / directory, according to the guidance you have linked too, but would create and output JSON data.

The URL of that script, I would read in from PW and create the posts.

$url = "http://wrdprss.domain.tld/path/to/jsonexport.php";
$opts = array(
    'http' => array(
        'method' => "GET",
        'header' => "Accept: application/json\r\n"
    )
);
$context = stream_context_create($opts);

$jsondata = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
if (preg_match("#HTTP/[0-9\.]+\s+([0-9]+)#", $http_response_header[0], $matches) && 200 == intval($matches[1])) {
    // now parse the data and build the html ...
    
}

[MuchDev]

Well the first thing that you will want to do is go into your /site/config.php and set

$config->debug = true; 

Then you should get a bit more of a verbose error message. Internal server error could be for anything. 

[adrian]

Is the WP site still being updated? If you are closing it down and would prefer to move all the posts into PW, we have an importer:

https://github.com/NicoKnoll/MigratorWordpress

If not, you might try using the RSS feed from the WP site and use this module to render it: http://modules.processwire.com/modules/rss-feed-loader/ - not sure about this - just a quick idea

[icreation]

Thanks for the replies. They are on the same domain with all the tables on the same database.

The JSON method is sound, however I was trying to use the existing ability that WP has for embedding in other environments.

However, a little bit of thought has come up with a method. It is not ideal that we are modifying the core files on both application so I would welcome an improvement to this method.

Here is how to get a working Processwire website working with a Wordpress Blog.

The blog posts can be displayed on the front page.

The PW navigation bar will display dynamically on the WP pages.

1. In Wordpress add this to the /wp-content/themes/.../functions.php

if (strpos($url,'/blog/') !== false) {
    include("/path/to/processwire/index.php");
}

$global = wire('pages')->get(1); 

2. In Wordpress add this to the top of /wp-content/themes/.../header.php

global $global;

3. In Processwire wire/core/LanguageFunctions.php and also in Wordpress /wp-includes/l10n.php

 

Wrap these 3 functions with if statements to stops them being declared again.

if (!function_exists('__')) {
...
}
if (!function_exists('_x')) {
...
}
if (!function_exists('_n')) {
...
}

4. One error that seems to occur is that any instances of

$pages->get(...);

needs to be replaced by 

wire('pages')->get(...);

as detailed in PW documentation.