Is it possible to open external links inside a wordpress "frameset"?

Technically yes, but this one is anything but easy, since there is no "Wordpress frameset", especially if you want the frameset to look like Atahualpa and have Wordpress functionality. And many target sites will probably break out of your frame with a Javascript framebuster anyway. I'd not use frames at all.

If you still want to try, the page with the frameset, i.e. frameset.php would look similar to this

<FRAMESET cols="20%, 80%">
<FRAME src="http://www.mydomain.com/contents_of_left_frame.html">
<FRAME src="<?php echo $_GET['link']; ?>">
<NOFRAMES>
<p>Your browser doesn't support frames.
This frameset document contains this page:
<a href="<?php echo $_GET['link']; ?>">
</p>
</NOFRAMES>
</FRAMESET>

And the link would be <a href="frameset.php?link=http://www.othersite.com/">
with http://www.othersite.com/ being the site that is supposed to be framed

Thanks Flynn!
I will try that.

Hi,

I am trying this too.

I don't get this part "contents_of_left_frame.html"

What does that mean exactly?

Thanks!

Tom

Thats just an 'example name' for the html file you would have as left frame in Flynn's example.

It could be any other name, like sidebar.html or navigation.html etc.

Thanks STB, I get that, but do I make an outside new HTML page with a frame in it?

Im not sure how Flynn meant this exactly. ..
so Im affraid I cant answer you in much detail.

But since Flynn is talking about "frameset.php" and uses php to get the external target link ..
this leads me to believe that Flynn's was talking about writing your own custom template in php,
That would also mean you need a more complex frameset if you want to mimic your header, sidebars and footer.
and then have the external site show up in the main content frame, with a php $_GET.