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Posted by Ben de Groot
Ben de Groot
3,090 Points

How do you display the content from another WordPress site/database?

Does anyone have insight into displaying loop content from another WordPress site/database?

1 Answer

Luke Pettway
Luke Pettway
16,593 Points
Luke Pettway
Luke Pettway
16,593 Points

There are a couple of ways you could do this

  1. Using the Rest API http://v2.wp-api.org/: This would allow you to fetch the content from the API remotely. You could then use JavaScript for example, to take the JSON from whatever content endpoint you consume, and then output it onto the page.

  2. Using WPDB to connect to a different database like in the answer to this question: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/1604/using-wpdb-to-connect-to-a-separate-database Essentially you'd be using WPDB to construct a custom query to the other database (assuming its on the same server). From there outputting the data should be mostly the same as a standard content query.

  3. Using the HTTP API: https://codex.wordpress.org/HTTP_API , the post here http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/7152/displaying-content-from-one-wp-site-on-separate-wp-site has an excellent example of getting content from another WP site remotely and then working with it to output the content.