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Default Adding blog content to my website

I am not sure if this is more of a blog question or a website coding question, but here it goes anyway.

I am creating a new web home for my podcast and plan on still using my blog as a way to post news about episodes, etc. I would like to have the content that is on my blog as the content for the front page of my new site.

My blog is currently set up using Wordpress (the online version). I downloaded the Wordpress application from Wordpress.org, but I am kind of lost. I have the design all set-up for my site (outside of Wordpress). I am happy with it and I now just want to add the content. I don't really need Wordpress except for the blog posting portion. How can I display my blog posts on my site? If it involves some fancy coding I am definitely all for it.

I suspect my solution has something to do with the rss feed file, but all the searches that I have done keep sending me back to an online sales letter for an RSS content builder product.

Solutions, suggestions, ideas?

Thank you!
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Default Re: Adding blog content to my website

I did some more digging and for the time being I created a widget that I placed on the main page of my new site. If you are not sure what a widget is or how to make one -- go here: http://www.widgetbox.com

My content is currently in a frame, so I am still on the lookout for a better solution.

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Default Re: Adding blog content to my website

Hi Darlene, we code this into client sites but it's a bit more complicated than I am able to explain here - it does utilize RSS.
I like Widgetbox and think it's a great solution - but otherwise I'm afraid you're looking at a custom project... Hopefully someone else knows otherwise?
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Default Re: Adding blog content to my website

If you know PHP here are the steps:

1 -
Go ahead and download:
http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/

2 -
You will need to get the URL to your RSS feed.

3 -
You can use something like this on your home page:
PHP Code:
require('PATH TO MAGPIERSS/rss_fetch.inc');

$your_rss_feed_url = 'http://YOUR BLOG.wordpress.com/PATH TO RSS';
$rss = fetch_rss($your_rss_feed_url);
foreach ((array) $rss->items as $blog_post) {
   ?>
         <a href="<?php echo $blog_post['link']; ?>"><?php echo $blog_post['title']; ?></a><br />
<?php echo $blog_post['description']; ?><br /><br />
   <?php
}
You might need to tweek it a little but this is the general idea.
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