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Today I installed Justin Blanton's excellent Smart Archives for WordPress plugin. I chose to install it as an external php page as described on Justin's Archives without using WordPress Pages page. After installing the plugin and creating the new "archives" directory and "archives/index.php" file as instructed, I noticed that the new plugin page was not using the Wordpress theme. The solution was simple and I post the code I used here in case anyone else wants to wrap an external page in the Wordpress template. The code below is specifically for the Smart Archives plugin but the general method should work for wrapping any external page in the Wordpress template.

<?php

require('../wp-blog-header.php');

get_header();
?>

<div id="content">
<h3 class="entrytitle"><a href="index.php">Archives</a></h3>

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Smart Archives
Version: 1.9
Plugin URI: http://justinblanton.com/projects/smartarchives/
Description: A simple, clean, and future-proof way to present your archives.
Author: Justin Blanton
Author URI: http://justinblanton.com

"Type" is one of three values: block, list, or both. "Block" produces the block of years and months,1 "list" generates a reverse chronological list of your posts, including links to monthly archives, and "both" gives you the block and the list.
 
"Category ID" is simply the number of the category you want to exclude. If you want to exclude more than one category, simply put a space between them. Keep in mind that the "block" doesn't exclude categories. If you call the function with no arguments it will default to "both" and will exclude no categories. Some examples follow -- each is a proper invocation of the plugin. 

smartArchives('type','category ID');
*/

smartArchives('both','');

?>

</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>