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After searching long and hard for a component that would enable us to display the latest post from a WordPress blog on the homepage of a Joolma driven website we decided to develop our own. There was nothing freely available and the few ‘paid for’ solutions where hugely over complicated for what we needed.
For those reasons we’ve decided to make this component freely available to anyone who wants it. Your Joomla and WordPress installations need to be running on the same sever. WordPress also needs a plugin enabled named Get My Link (just to get a post’s permalink) which is included in the .zip file. The download includes the Joomla module & WordPress plugin. Within the module you are able to display the excerpt content, the number of words and the database connection can be set in the advance configuration parameters of the module. Enjoy!
If you download it and like it please leave a comment and click our ‘like’ button 
V3 (Beta) might be compatible with WordPress 2.x but we haven’t had a chance to test it yet.
Although we try to respond to comments left here, we are unable to provide support for this. As such you download it for free, install and use at your own risk. Apologies to those who left blog comments previously – there was no easy way of transferring them from our old blog software to WordPress.
37 Comments
This is great!!!! Exactly what I was looking for. Well, not exactly, but certainly close enough and I was able to tweak it to do what I needed (e.g. show me the titles of my 5 most recent WordPress posts, in a Joomla module on my homepage). THANK YOU!!!
Your welcome
Which version, on which platform did you use?
i want limited show number of words, but not work, i change it to ’5′ but words is stay to max. When i write long title or tekst in module no have restrict number of words. How to fix this. try with 2.x and 3.x but no luck
Hey! This is great. I was searching for this on Google.
Excellent work Clickroutes. — I've become a fan of your site due to this plugin!
I had used version 2.9.2, integrating into Joomla 1.5.17.
Actually, ran into a problem tonight. Still looking for the answer yet, but maybe you can help in case I don't figure it out by then….
I decided tonight to limit my home page module to only search one a selected wp category. So your module then calls get_term_children(), which comes up undefined. I see it defined over in the wp-includes/taxonomy.php, but need to figure out how to get that linked into this module….
Thanks for any advice.
Follow-up to my earlier comment about trying to limit to a certain category, and now am dependent on the wp-includes/taxonomy.php:
So I tried a brute-force hack of just copy/paste all of taxonomy.php to the bottom of mod_recentwordpressposts.php, but then I get other errors about bad MySQL syntax, etc. Hmmmm…. Help please????
Thank you.
Update: So I added some include statements for a few of the wp-include files, re-ordered the mod_recentwordpressposts.php so that things were defined in the right order. This helped me get around the “undefined function” sorts of errors. But I still get a complaint about bad MySQL syntax. Question — have you ever tested this part of your code, trying to pull only certain categories? I'm wondering if this is a bug in your code, or if it is something stupid that I'm doing…
Thanks for any advice (or code updates
I'm sorry you're experiencing some problems. Unfortunately as we say above because it's a 'one off' for a client project we can't support it – it works for them
Feel free to rip it apart and retest and if you have any success let us know.
Marc that's great – thank you
Dear Click Routes. Looks promising, but after installing, the whole wordpress blog shows in the module, in stead of a list of posts. Any sugestions? (using Joomla! 1.5.15 with WordPress 2.9.2.)
Thanks for your reply
I'm getting problems making this work with my blog and my joomla installation. It's giving me warnings like these:
Warning: include(blog/wp-includes/wp-db.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/sakuram/public_html/twilightbrigade/modules/mod_recentwordpressposts/mod_recentwordpressposts.php on line 467
Warning: include(blog/wp-includes/wp-db.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/sakuram/public_html/twilightbrigade/modules/mod_recentwordpressposts/mod_recentwordpressposts.php on line 467
Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'blog/wp-includes/wp-db.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/sakuram/public_html/twilightbrigade/modules/mod_recentwordpressposts/mod_recentwordpressposts.php on line 467
Fatal error: Call to a member function get_results() on a non-object in /home/sakuram/public_html/twilightbrigade/modules/mod_recentwordpressposts/mod_recentwordpressposts.php on line 106
Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks for the new version. After upgrading to WordPress 3.0, I was dismayed to find an error on my Joomla! site. I upgraded to the new version, and everything seems to be working great again.
You're welcome Brian
this showed my entire blog within my joomla site, not really waht I was going for. I just wanted a link to the post. I'll keep looking
Hello coders,
I've tried to install your module with no results. WordPress plugin is ok, Joomla module won't to work when activated because of a blank page.
Both joomla and wordpress installations are into the same server:
http://www.myserver.it/joomla
and
http://www.myserver.it/wordpress
Joomla and WordPress are currently using two separate mysql DB's: the ip address is the same, the name is different.
I've also tried to correct row 467 of mod_recentwordpressposts.php:
“include(“blog/wp-includes/wp-db.php”); ” to -> “include(“wordpress/wp-includes/wp-db.php”); “
with no results
Someone could help me? I think that this module is very interesting and helpful.
Best regards
Maurizio, Italy
Thank you, thank you thank you – 3.0 worked in 2 minutes right out of the box!
Your welcome – glad it helped
EDIT: Nice try but a long way from a public release.
Where are the instructions on installation and configuration?
Great Plug-in and its really working for me in 2.X
Anyone has this working on a 3X wordpress installation…?
Hi Candres33 – at the moment we’ve not had any problems with the current version. If we encounter any we’ll upgrade and post here
don’t forget to install joomla mod + 2 wordpress plugins
Hello guys.. first of all many thanks for developing this super like module n plug-in for joomla n word-press .. i have install both the Module and Plug-in for joomla & WP respectively also follows instructions but whenever i enable that module my site goes blank means HOME page was getting totally blank what to do?
works great! easy to install and easy to use…thanks for your job!
You are simply rock… i love it
The category name and slug don’t have to be the same. The category name just won’t work, nothing will show up. It works with the slug only.bilgibank
Wow so amazing. Thank you very much for this great work. I have been looking for something like this for a long time. Once again congratulations……10/10
what a post man, thanks
Woila Man Looking for same thing
Thanks
Installed with Joomla 1.6 and WP 3.2
I had to modify the xml for params syntax otherwise they would not show up on the module management but now it works fine.
thanks a lot for your great job!
Hello eliogabalo would you be able to post what you did to get it working with Joomla 1.6 and WP 3.2 for others that might run into the same problem.
I managed to work out how to get it working with joomla 1.7 and wordpress 3.2
I found these guidelines helpful for upgrading the XML for Joomla! 1.6: http://www.finishjoomla.com/blog/27/upgrading-a-joomla-15-module-to-joomla-16/. I also added a field for j_num_posts so that users can select how many recent blog posts to list.
Thanks for letting us know! If you could post any details on what you did I’m sure other visitors would appreciate it. Thanks!
Hello sorry for the late reply.
I have changed the following code to make it compatible with Joomal 1.6 and 1.7
The solution is as follow:////////////////////////// joomla 1.5 format /////////////////////
No
Yes
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
As you can see from the code below, all you have to do is change from the above code to the code illustrated below…….
////////////////// modified for joomla 1.6 /////////////////////
No
Yes
////////////////////////////////////////////
Good luck and I hope it works for as it does for me
As per others, I’ve been looking for a WP plugin that would actually work. Well done and thanks! A special thank you to Mbruiz for the 1.7 changes. Works perfectly.
I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks