ethanhackett

In the post-tiles.php file of version 1.3.2 go to line 344 and modify it.

It should look like this:
query_posts($the_query);

Replace it with some form of the following:
query_posts($the_query . '&order=DESC' . '&orderby=post_date');

Use a combination of order and orderly. Order is either DESC or ASC. And orderby determines by what the ascending and descending uses such as ID, Date, Post Title etc. Here’s a link to the parameter options. https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters

Also keep in mind that all modifications to any of the plugin files will be lost when you update to a newer version of the plugin.

Do you have a URL I could look at to see what’s happening? Email it to me [email protected]

C64, the image array(350, 350) controls the thumbnails size. I’m planning non adding the ability to control the thumbnail size in the admin panel.

Right now on mobile devices there is no hover so I’ve designed the click to be mouse enter. That allows for the panels to slide in. Otherwise if the thumbnail was click able it wouldn’t work on mobile.

I would like to add another tile style which would have the image and maybe just the title over it. Then the whole thing would be click able.

I posted it a few hours ago without the HTML and it still doesn’t show. I also ran the plugin txt validator and there aren’t any issues or warnings.

Hmmm those were there before when I updated my plugin. Maybe they’re being more strict. I removed them and reposted. Lets see if that does it. Thanks for your help.

There isn’t. I would have to look at the code to see how it’s sorting I believe it does by publish date but probably could be changed to title alphabetically. But keep in mind any changed will be lost if you change the plugin code then upgrade to a later version.

Sorry for the delay. I don’t get notified if someone leaves a comment here so I end up missing them. When you say my site do you mean https://www.ethanhackett.com or https://www.tincrate.com/post-tiles/

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I need to go back over and update this plugin and take care of some of these details.

In your theme css fils you can ad this.

ul#post-tiles li {
	background-repeat: no-repeat !important;
}

And it should fix it. The other option would be to go into the post-tiles.php file and somewhere around line 332 you should see the following inline css generated.

$featured_style = "style='background: url(".$url.") 0 0;' class='featured-image'";

Change it to this

$featured_style = "style='background: url(".$url.") <strong>no-repeat</strong> 0 0;' class='featured-image'";

Both will fix it but I’d recommend adding the css in your css file because the plugin file will be overwritten when a new version of post tiles comes out and you will loose any customization.

I hope tha thelps.

@luchosar I do like both of those ideas. Perhaps as the plugin evolves I’ll be able to add support for alternate views.

You could give it the transparent effect by adding the following to your theme’s CSS file.

li.featured-image a{
	opacity: 0.80;
}

@trancemaniak at the moment there isn’t any elegant solution because the height of the tiles also effects the animation on hover etc there are multiple places that need to be changes.

@filete @trancemaniak at the moment there isn’t any admin setting or short code option for choosing the image size. But if you’re brave enough to modify the plugin.

Somewhere around line 329

$thumb = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id(), 'medium');

You can change the word medium to any of the following – thumbnail, medium, large or full.

Maybe on the next version I can add this to the short-code and allow users to pick the size but default to medium.

@luchosar

I’m glad you love the plugin. I appreciate the wordpress community and have wanted to give back. I don’t think I would do a paid pro version just because that goes against the heart of the community that I love so much. But I would like to spend more time developing it into a more robust plugin.

There are basically two parts to edit. One is the li. The other is the anchor inside. The anchor has a 10px padding so whatever you do keep in mind that the anchor should be 20px shorter and thinner.

ul#post-tiles li {
	width: 175px !important;
	height: 175px !important;
}
ul#post-tiles li a {
	width: 155px !important;
	height: 155px !important;
}

Place the above code in your theme’s css and change the width and height accordingly.

I’m sorry i tried to go to the URL to see what was happening but I received a 403 error. Sorry about the delay.

Sorry for the delay. I thought I would be notified if someone posted about post tiles. I didn’t know I needed to check them manually.

The only way to modify the colors at the moment is to change it in your CSS file..