Gist for Making Tiles Static

  • Resolved brendanhainan

    (@brendanhainan)


    11 years ago

    Great plug in. I am trying to add the gist so that I can create static pages. I am a total newb, and although I have read a few of the threads detailing how it is done, I have not had any success.

    I know this is asking a lot of you, but would you mind walking me through it step by step. What gist text goes where, is it necessary to create a wp-tiles-pages.php file (like one thread detailed), and if so, where does it go? I can use ftp, etc, but I’ve followed the directions yet under ‘Customer Files’ when I create a page, there is still no option to select tile positioning.

    Thank you very much.

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  • Plugin Author Mike Martel

    (@mike_cowobo)

    Hi Brendan, sorry for the long wait. To get the gist working, add the code to your theme’s functions.php file. If you haven’t already, create a Child Theme so your changes won’t be lost when you update your theme. The functions.php will be in your (child)theme directory. Make sure to add the code somewhere after the opening <?php tag.

    When you have done this, edit the pages you want to display in the tiles. Find the Custom Fields meta box. In this box add the key tile-position (this will only show up after you have done it at least once) and add their position as the value (finding the position can be a bit tricky.. just set it to 1 or 2 or 3 to begin with and tweak later).

    Now create the page with your tiles if you haven’t done so already, and look to see if the pages you have added show up.

    Let me know if you run into any other problems!

    Mike

    Hi Mike, I’m trying to use the gist to display posts as tiles in a certain order but I seem to be having trouble with it. For instance if I set 6 posts in order from 1 to 6, the first 3 posts will appear in order but 4 will be where 6 should be and vice versa(this is one example,anytime I set it can be different but very rarely are they in proper order). You say above finding the position can be a bit tricky, is there anyway around this problem?

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