Comments on: WordPress wp-blog-header.php Causes 404 in IE

By: theOwl

theOwl — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:03:35 +0000

You are my hero! WOW, I am so glad I found this post.

By: OSEC

OSEC — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:22:22 +0000

Thanks so much for this. Site appeared to be working fine but then strange things started happening with Googlebot and Adobe Browserlab, pages not being indexed, but yet seemed to be working okay!?

I managed to trace the problem using the brilliant Firefox plugin LiveHTTPheaders to be something to do with wp-blog-header.php, I use a different CMS but use Wordpress for the blog section. Luckily, decided to Google the problem and found this! You have saved me from a massive headache, so thanks so much!

By: Sach

Sach — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:26:03 +0000

Thanks alot…problem solved in a sec…

By: don

don — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:59:47 +0000

Thank you so much bro!

By: Paul Hanak Designs

Paul Hanak Designs — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:22:34 +0000

Worked perfectly! It’s funny. I can use the wp-blog-header as long as I am on the home page of my site, but if I use it on a sub page, then it 404s! Either way, this fixed it. Thank you!

By: Owen Conti

Owen Conti — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:12:54 +0000

Thank you so much! You just saved me hours of headaches!

Merci

By: trash

trash — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:05:20 +0000

Okay, my problem factor: I try to include and load wordpress inside my own php class. this seems to be the troublemaker … really dirty fast workaround: require the wp-config.php outside the class and pass the $wp-variable as a parameter to the class/method.
I’m sure there is a nicer way, but can’t find one at the moment.

By: trash

trash — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:49:38 +0000

Am I the only one to who this DOES NOT work?
I tried several different approaches, including this and those in the comments, I am still being redirected to install.php featuring an 404!
Why?! What is the suppose of this anyway … stupid Wp

By: James Revillini

James Revillini — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:03:27 +0000

Your site ate my code … here it is again:

/* Short and sweet */
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, false);
require(‘../../../wp-load.php’);

By: James Revillini

James Revillini — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:02:44 +0000

I don’t know if this is an equally efficient fix in terms of resources loaded, but another astute WP hacker found that at the time they merged WPMU into WP, the preferred way to include all the WP headers in to load wp-load.php instead of wp-blog-header.php.[1]

The net result is the following code:

I’m not sure if the define for WP_USE_THEMES is still necessary but I imagine it would be. So then you have

[1] http://wordpress.org/support/topic/integrating-wp-in-external-php-pages?replies=22#post-1568731