How to get posts' content as HTML from a wordpress blog remotely

Question

I have a self-hosted WordPress blog, and I am making a static home page for my website based on jQuery. So, I wanted to display some content from my blog, on my home page (in widgets), as a news section.

For example, I may fetch

• the latest five posts' titles and content
• OR a specific page content (via passing the page id)
• OR a specific post (via passing the post id)

So does WordPress include any PHP file that shows the posts contents as plain text, or HTML?

I thought about fetching the blog's RSS, and then show it on the page, but the RSS doesn't provide the full content of the post.

Answer 1

If it's hosted on the same server, you could integrate WordPress into your app by including wp-blog-header.php, and then call get_posts(), using setup_postdata().

For example:

 <ul>
     <?php
         global $post;
         $tmp_post = $post;
         $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=5&offset=1&category=1');
         foreach($myposts as $post) :
             setup_postdata($post);
     ?>

         <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>

         <?php endforeach; ?>
     <?php $post = $tmp_post; ?>
 </ul>