Comments on: Including free-form PHP into WordPress

By: Liena Aifen

Liena Aifen — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:22:47 +0000

Finally i found it, thanks for sharing

By: lee

lee — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:29:53 +0000

i wish i can adjust the font size to 1000px then i’ll write a big thank you! cheers

By: Tracy

Tracy — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:59:18 +0000

Thank you for explaining that to me.

I was finally able to get the results I wanted. (for the most part) http://www.tracyandcarol.com/the_tracy_times/resumes/tracys-resume/

By: NC

NC — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:33:51 +0000

I look at your “Resume Test” page:

http://www.tracyandcarol.com/the_tracy_times/resumes/my-resume-test/

If you look at the source code and search for any of the tags mentioned, you’ll find two instances of each. The outer one comes from your WordPress template files, the other, from the HTML file you include.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:33:03 +0000

Where do you look to see the double tags? When I look at the source code I see the code for the entire site, not just the page.

By: NC

NC — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:59:52 +0000

It appears that you are using the plugin to produce malformed HTML. Your “Resume Test” page has two !DOCTYPE declarations, two tags, two tags and two tags. Chances are, browsers simply don’t know what to do with two instances of the tag, so the styling you apply to the tag in the static HTML is simply ignored…

By: Tracy

Tracy — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:50:32 +0000

The link to my style sheet was relative, but making it absolute did not solve the problem. Nor did your other suggestion.

I did upgrade the plugin to 0.4, but that did not help.

The problem is across all browsers.

EDIT – I was just able to specify a color, in the external CSS file, for some text. The colored text displayed as it was supposed to. It looks as if the only problem is with the background image in my style sheet. I’m using the absolute path to it. It displays on the HTML file outside of WordPress. http://www.tracyandcarol.com/html/resume.html

But it doesn’t display when I try to include it in WP http://www.tracyandcarol.com/the_tracy_times/resumes/my-resume-test/

By: NC

NC — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:30:54 +0000

By any chance, is the link to the style sheet relative (e.g., example.css)? If so, does rewriting it as absolute (say, http://example.com/example.css) solve the problem? Also, is the inability to show style consistent across browsers? Also, if all else fails, you can always attempt to include the stylesheet directly:


[include_html: http://example.com/example.htm]

This is not the cleanest solution in that the example.html will still be asking for a non-existent stylesheet, but the styles it requires will nevertheless be defined.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:18:43 +0000

Does this plugin work with pages that use CSS? I’ve tried to “include” a page that uses an external style sheet, but cannot get the styles to show. I’ve had no luck when I try them as an internal style sheet either. The page itself works fine.

By: VickiLH2

VickiLH2 — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:01:42 +0000

Aha! I got this to work with allow_url_fopen set to OFF. I edited the include-html.php file. I substituted this:

$replacement = '' .
  file_get_contents($URL) .
  '';

with this:

$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5; // set to zero for no timeout
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$file_contents = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$replacement = '' .
  $file_contents .         
  '';

It works!! Best, Vicki