How To: Trick WordPress into pulling in your header

I can't take credit for this one, my boss figured this out.

Let's say you want to use a header file from somewhere on your site as the same header for your WordPress blog, but it's a .shtml header or something and WordPress is whining about php again.

With Apache, you can just put the following into/as the "header.php" file in your WordPress theme:

<?php
apache_setenv("Title", "TITLE");
apache_setenv("Description", "DESCRIPTION");
virtual("LOCATION");
?>

Where TITLE is your desired blog title (text), DESCRIPTION is your desired description (also as just text), and LOCATION is the location of the silly thing (file path).

How To: Create the Most Basic Blogger Template Possible

Maybe you want to make a blog template from scratch, maybe you just need a blank template. You COULD try striping all the stuff out of an existing one. I did. It was a major pain in the butt. SO! Instead, let's start from scratch and just used the Most Basic Blogger Template Possible.
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