Wordpress: Use a sidebar (widget) from different blog?

[EasyCoding]

Is it possible to call in a widget from a different blog installed on the same URL?

This is what I put in for the code of the widget where I want it to be called into:

PHP Code:

<?php require ('http://www.imperial-mag.com/blog/wp-content/themes/Imperial_NEW/widgets/recent'); ?>

It comes up with an error message as you can see here: http://www.imperial-mag.com/wordpress/

Any help is appreciated.

thanks in advance.

[mr e]

Using relative urls, should be something like this

PHP Code:

<?php require('/home/content/i/m/p/imperialmag/html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/Imperial_NEW/widgets/recent.php'); ?>

[ckeyrouz]

I think the URL you are calling does not exist. I have checked and I am not able to access it.

[EasyCoding]

Hey that worked!

One problem though. It's not pulling in the posts from the "blog" section.

The posts are here: http://www.imperial-mag.com/blog/

You can see here: http://www.imperial-mag.com/wordpress that the posts from the blog page are not being pulled in.

[mr e]

If you have two different blogs running, you'll need to make sure the code you're including knows which database to access, otherwise it will simply access the database of the blog doing the including, instead of the blog it started in.

Make sense?

There are a few ways to do this, the way I would probably do it is to change the widget to output some html and file_get_contents that.

So for example

PHP Code:

// blog's news-widget.php
//   pull some info from the database
//   output html directly

//  main site
//    file_get_contents('http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/whatever/widgets/news-widget.php'); 


Not very hard, you just need to approach it slightly differently than you are now

[EasyCoding]

Originally Posted by mr e

If you have two different blogs running, you'll need to make sure the code you're including knows which database to access, otherwise it will simply access the database of the blog doing the including, instead of the blog it started in.

Make sense?

There are a few ways to do this, the way I would probably do it is to change the widget to output some html and file_get_contents that.

So for example

PHP Code:

// blog's news-widget.php
//   pull some info from the database
//   output html directly

//  main site
//    file_get_contents('http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/whatever/widgets/news-widget.php'); 


Not very hard, you just need to approach it slightly differently than you are now

I am sorry - totally lost on this.

I am at a beginner level on PHP.

Can you explain further? Thanks.

[mr e]

This might be a better direction for you to go if you're new to PHP

http://wphacks.com/how-to-adding-an-...ordpress-blog/