Restricting by category not working

  • Using WP Tiles ver. 1.1.1 and WP 4.4.2.

    Using shortcode to display tiles from only 1 category is not working.

    Per instructions found in this post, I modified my shortcode accordingly to this:

    [wp-tiles posts_query=”category=558″ grids=”Simple” post_type=”post” order=”DESC” orderby=”date” exclude_current_post=”false”]

    But it is still showing tiles from all categories.

    I also tried the solution offered in this post, which suggests using just category=”558″ in the shortcode, like so:

    [wp-tiles category=”558″ grids=”Simple” post_type=”post” order=”DESC” orderby=”date” exclude_current_post=”false”]

    But that did not work and in fact makes the Tiles not show up at all.

    I also tried using cat=’558′ in both methods – still no dice.

    I realize these posts I referenced are old, has something changed in how to pull from just one category (or an array of categories)?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-tiles/

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • Thread Starter TrishaM

    (@trisham)

    SO I managed to PARTIALLY solve this on my own, it’s a bit confusing (Mike, I’m sure you’re busy but when you have a moment it would be lovely if you’d update your shortcode documentation on your website, and I could still use your help on the sticky post issue).

    I’m posting my category solution in case anyone else needs help with that……Here’s the deal – in order to restrict by category, I found that I must use the category slug – the ID doesn’t work. And it doesn’t go in posts_query, it goes in the shortcode by itself, like so:

    [wp-tiles category=”yourcategoryslughere”]

    To that you can add whatever other options you want/need.

    In MY case, my category ID of 558 as shown in my OP has a slug of ‘home-page’ – SO in my case I modified my shortcode like this, and it now works (mostly):

    [wp-tiles category=”home-page” grids=”Simple” post_type=”post” order=”DESC” orderby=”date” exclude_current_post=”false”]

    What isn’t working is the sticky posts – I have one post that is ‘sticky’ that I want to be the first post in the Tiles – BUT if I restrict by category, the WP Tiles ignores my sticky posts, even if I set ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ to false – if I add that, either by itself or in the posts_query, then it ignores my category restriction.

    SO how do I get WP Tiles to a) limit to one category and b) respect my sticky post and show it first?

    Any help will be most appreciated!

    it works fine with the category slug

    [wp-tiles category=”your_cat_slug”]

    fubbi

    Thread Starter TrishaM

    (@trisham)

    Hi @holby – yes, I do know that (see from my solution above)…

    Here’s the deal – in order to restrict by category, I found that I must use the category slug

    and

    [wp-tiles category=”yourcategoryslughere”]

    What still is NOT working is the sticky post function – when I restrict the category, WP Tiles *loses* the ability to handle sticky posts in the way that WP normally does – if I remove the category restriction, sticky posts are handled correctly BUT I get all categories.

    That’s what I still need help with.

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • The topic ‘Restricting by category not working’ is closed to new replies.