b00ner

Hi Guys

I’m not big on coding, so a lot of what I do is pretty hacky. If it works, I’m happy ??

So in a post I just put the embed code direct from Youtube/soundcloud/etc and alter the size a bit. I’ve got a couple of links in there for bands websites and then display tags. Here’s a sample post code:

‘<h1><iframe width=”100%” height=”50%” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z2trL6X-tu4?rel=0&showinfo=0&#8243; frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe><img src=”https://www.soundundefined.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/facebook-icon.jpg&#8221; alt=”facebook-icon” width=”24″ height=”24″ /> <img src=”https://www.soundundefined.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/twitter-icon.png&#8221; alt=”twitter-icon” width=”24″ height=”24″ /> <img src=”https://www.soundundefined.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/bandcamp.png&#8221; alt=”bandcamp” width=”24″ height=”24″ /></h1>’

Because I don’t want people going to the actual post page, I don’t care what it looks like. All this serves is creating ‘content’ to be displayed as the byline.

So in Byline Content of the WP Tiles options, I don’t link to anything through the tile. Under the Byline Template I have:

‘1 %content%
2 %tag_links%’

So the content I create in the posts is just for the byline. On the main page I just display the tiles and it comes out like you see. I make sure I add a feature image to each post and use that as the tile image.

I’m sure if someone knows what they’re doing they could make it a lot better. It works well on desktop monitors but doesn’t adjust to smaller sizing/mobiles etc. As I said, full screen function doesn’t seem to work in some browsers, and everytime there’s a resize of the browser window, it resets the page and stops playing the video/audio.

Happy to explain more but this is about the extent of it. Let me know how you go with it!

Cheers

Andrew

Hi Scott,

I’m not sure if you managed to get something working, but I’ve been putting video content in the tiles of my site for a while. It works mostly except for full-screen function in some browsers. I use the video embed code in a post and then preview the post in the byline, it works specifically for what I want (music videos/audio) then. Check out the website and see if it’s what you’re after, happy to provide more details!

https://www.soundundefined.com

Cheers

Andrew