This tutorial is aimed at developers who just want wordpress to function as a lightweight CMS, that is wordpress will only be used for editing page content.
First install wordpress in whatever directory you want the admin to live. I chose /admin.
Any page that needs to use wordpress functionality you must add this:
require('/path/to/wp-blog-header.php');
This gives you access to wordpress functions that we need:
- get_page – Get the page data from the database
- wpautop – Automatically add paragraph tags to page content
To get page content:
$page_data = get_page( 4 ); // Where 4 is the page ID in wordpress
There is a bug in certain versions of php, if you get the error:
Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference…
Then use this format instead:
$page_id = 4; $page_data = get_page( $page_id );
$page_data now contains all of the info for that page, and is ready for use in your templates/views. Check the function reference to see the data you have available to you.
To display post_content use the wp function wpautop.
<?= wpautop($page_data->post_content) ?>
It’s simple!