I want to use the header, top menu and footer from my website on my WordPress blog. The website itself is not a WordPress site but the blog is and resides in a ‘blog’ folder on my server.
So I guess what I need to do is edit the blog’s ‘header.php’ file to use my website header for starters (then the same for menu and footer) but being relatively new to WordPress I am finding it difficult to navigate the wordpress ‘header.php’ file.
How do I call a header/menu/footer with direct url’s to override the themes header.
It seems to be possible but is more of a ‘hack’ and I can find no definitive answer anywhere. Is it that difficult/tricky to do??
Here is the code for the WordPress ‘header.php’ header
<?php
/*
* Header Section of Iconic One
*
* Displays all of the <head> section and everything up till <div id="main">
*
* @package WordPress - Themonic Framework
* @subpackage Iconic_One
* @since Iconic One 1.0
*/
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<!--[if IE 7]>
<html class="ie ie7" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8]>
<html class="ie ie8" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if !(IE 7) | !(IE 8) ]><!-->
<html <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<!--<![endif]-->
<head>
<meta charset="<?php bloginfo( 'charset' ); ?>" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
<title><?php wp_title( '|', true, 'right' ); ?></title>
<link rel="profile" href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo( 'pingback_url' ); ?>" />
<?php // Loads HTML5 JavaScript file to add support for HTML5 elements in older IE versions. ?>
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/js/html5.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<![endif]-->
<?php wp_head(); ?>
<?php include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/includes/header.php") ?>
</head>
<body <?php body_class(); ?>>
<div id="page" class="hfeed site">
<header id="masthead" class="site-header" role="banner">
<?php if ( get_theme_mod( 'themonic_logo' ) ) : ?>
<div class="themonic-logo">
<a href="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ) ); ?>" rel="home"><img src="<?php echo get_theme_mod( 'themonic_logo' ); ?>" alt="<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ) ); ?>"></a>
</div>
<?php if( get_theme_mod( 'iconic_one_social_activate' ) == '1') { ?>
<div class="socialmedia">
<a href="<?php echo get_theme_mod( 'twitter_url', 'default_value' ); ?>" target="_blank"><img src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/ img/twitter.png" alt="Follow us on Twitter"/></a> <a href="<?php echo get_theme_mod( 'facebook_url', 'default_value' ); ?>" target="_blank"><img src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/img/facebook.png" alt="Follow us on Facebook"/></a> <a href="<?php echo get_theme_mod( 'plus_url', 'default_value' ); ?>" rel="author" target="_blank"><img src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/img/gplus.png" alt="Follow us on Google Plus"/></a><a href="<?php echo get_theme_mod( 'rss_url', 'default_value' ); ?>" target="_blank"><img src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/img/rss.png" alt="Subscribe RSS"/></a>
</div>
<?php } ?>
<?php else : ?>
<hgroup>
<a href="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ) ); ?>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></a>
<br .../> <a class="site-description"><?php bloginfo( 'description' ); ?></a>
</hgroup>
<?php if( get_theme_mod( 'iconic_one_social_activate' ) == '1') { ?>
<div class="socialmedia">
<a href="<?php echo get_theme_mod( 'twitter_url', 'default_value' ); ?>" target="_blank"><img src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/img/twitter.png" alt="Follow us on Twitter"/></a> <a href="<?php echo get_theme_mod( 'facebook_url', 'default_value' ); ?>" target="_blank"><img src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/img/facebook.png" alt="Follow us on Facebook"/></a> <a href="<?php echo get_theme_mod( 'plus_url', 'default_value' ); ?>" rel="author" target="_blank"><img src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/img/gplus.png" alt="Follow us on Google Plus"/></a><a href="<?php echo get_theme_mod( 'rss_url', 'default_value' ); ?>" target="_blank"><img src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/img/rss.png" alt="Follow us on rss"/></a>
</div>
<?php } ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<nav id="site-navigation" class="themonic-nav" role="navigation">
<a class="assistive-text" href="#content" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Skip to content', 'themonic' ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Skip to content', 'themonic' ); ?></a>
<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'primary', 'menu_id' => 'menu-top', 'menu_class' => 'nav-menu' ) ); ?>
</nav><!-- #site-navigation -->
<?php $header_image = get_header_image();
if ( ! empty( $header_image ) ) : ?>
<a href="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>"><img src="<?php echo esc_url( $header_image ); ?>" class="header-image" width="<?php echo get_custom_header()->width; ?>" height="<?php echo get_custom_header()->height; ?>" alt="" /></a>
<?php endif; ?><div class="clear"></div>
</header><!-- #masthead -->
<div id="main" class="wrapper">
Include wp-load.php in the non-wordpress site to get WordPress functions.
Then you should be able to make the appropriate calls to
get_header(),get_footer(), andwp_nav_menu()as you would within your WordPress theme.i resolved this, for the header using my code above as an example. Under I simply entered so the same solution as Joey Nax suggested other than the path. For some reason a direct path to the file on my server doesn’t work with wordpress but ($_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] did. I updated my code with the added line. Then it is simply a case of adding my own header css into ‘custom.css’ in WordPress admin.