Integrating link to latest wordpress post

I’m running a website with modx but the client’s blog is a wordpress site. I’d like to integrate the latest blog post title, date & excerpt onto a modx home page. However it doesn’t seem to work in the normal way in which I’ve done it with non modx sites (see below). I’ve tried integrating it into a snippet but this still doesn’t work. Has anyone managed to get this to work before?

// Get the last 3 posts.
<?php
require(’/the/path/to/your/wp-blog-header.php’);
?>

<?php query_posts(’showposts=3’); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>

<?php endwhile;?>

don’t know if this does work, but I would try it this way in your snippet:

thanks for the reply. it doesn’t seem to like the path i’m saying the file is in. on my system it’s http://www.theurl.co.uk/blog/wp-blog-header.php but it doesn’t seem to allow the url so removed that and just tried /blog/wp-blog-header.php but it doesn’t like that either saying it can’t find it. not quite sure what the path should be; any ideas?

hmm thanks for that ganeshXL. i think i’ve found the right path but now the site comes up with and error:

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

anyone know if i can do anything about that???

I don’t see a reason that would be redirecting, unless the wp-blog-header.php file has some sort of check to make sure it’s within wordpress, but I don’t think that should be the case?

If you open up firebug or something similar while loading, you can see the redirects in action and see where to/from it is trying to send you. One culprit is often the htaccess file if any modifications were made there...

A simple solution might be to use the getFeed snippet. Set the rss feed of your wordpress blog to output a summary, (in Settings->Reading). Then use getFeed to pull the latest post with title, author, excerpt etc into your MODx site.