The line should go on all you php pages which are not part of the blog, in the .php files.

What is the error message you get? The path should be edited to that of your wordpress installation – for example my blog is at wheelerc.com/blog so the path is ‘./blog/wp-blog-header.php’. If you blog was in the root of your domain the path should be ./wp-blog-header.php’.

- Chris

Does the “Step 3: Include the WordPress header” go inside the current wp theme you are using?

When I put that line of code –> require_once ‘./blog/wp-blog-header.php’; <– into the header, I get an error message.

Am I missing something? I thought that line of code needed be enclosed in php tags, like:

But, this didn’t work either.

I know you wrote this 3 years ago, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the comment – this article was written back in 2007 so I think the WordPress code may have changed a bit – hopefully your comments will be of use to others wanting to do this – I’ll update the post to direct people to the comments as there has been some other good points raised.

- Chris

I’ve been working on this all morning, and i’ve found a simplier solution:

1- Add this to your smarty PHP calling the blog:

define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, false); // NOTE the ‘FALSE’ here!!!!
require(‘../wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);

2- Add this to your TPL

{include_php file=’wp-content/themes/classic/index.php’}
// Change to the path of your structure

3- change the BLOG URL in the WP Admin area > General Options
You need to make this URL relative to your page content, so you won’t have bad links!

Hope it helps!

However, I have one small thing I cannot seem to get working. Since my Smarty setup uses a map called pages (which holds my php pages) the url re-writing for permalinks won’t work. I’ve tried a couple of things, but couldn’t get it working

Could you please help me out here?

So instead of http://www.domain.com/blog.php i have http://www.domain.com/pages/blog.php

Thanks!