I posted this in wordpress forums but got no bite... I tried to modify the header.php file for the template to just require() my global header for my site. Two issues I noticed right away were: I use $sql for the link to MySQL... I see Wordpress uses it to hold the queries. What can I do? I also had some issues with scope, where declared variables in MY header.php file were not available through $GLOBALS['var_name'] Any input, any ideas? Thanks!