External Header Footer is a simple WordPress plug-in that exposes that site’s header and footer over HTTP as URLs whose content can then be consumed.
How is this useful? Let’s say you’ve got a WordPress website at your www subdomain, and a forum for your community of users at a forums subdomain. In many cases, you’ll want to keep the header, footer and basic styling (link, text, background colours) of both sites identical.
That’s the cue to use External Header Footer: Once this plug-in is enabled on www, run a scheduled task on your forums subdomain to retrieve and locally store (write to a file, or to memory) the header and footer to be displayed on that site every day/hour/week. Now with minimal effort you can be assured that both sites will maintain a consistent look and feel.
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.