ethanhackett

I’m not sure if you found them or not but when Post Tiles is installed and activated you can find the settings by logging into your admin account and going to Settings > Post Tiles in the left navigation.

It’s been a while since I wrote Post Tiles but I think it had to do with the 10px padding in the list items. So the images needed to be +20 pixels width/height. I think it has to do with the adoption of box-sizing in css resets in themes.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4698054/css-does-the-width-include-the-padding

Some themes css include the padding in the width where others add extra width. I probably should add box-sizing to the plugin. But that might fix it in the mean time.

Adding the categories=’1,2,4′ attribute to the post tiles code should allow you to target what specific categories you want.

<?php echo do_shortcode('[post-tiles posts="30" categories="1,2,4"]') ?>

The problem is you need the numbers to dynamically change to match the category you’re viewing on the archive page.

Try replacing your code with this.

<?php
$category = get_the_category(); // This gets the current category id
echo do_shortcode('[post-tiles posts="30" categories='$category']'); // this should dynamically post the category id into the categories
?>

I can’t test this at the moment but it should point you in the right direction.

Do you have an example url I can look at?

Are you trying to put the Post Tiles plugin on the same page as your posts? Post Titles doesn’t communicate with the posts page so you will end up with redundancies if you’re trying to show the tiles above the posts.

Post tiles works great if you want to say on your homepage have the tiles but then have a separate page for the blog. Here is a working example https://www.ethanhackett.com

I’m experiencing the same issue. On the blog page where it lists the posts the plugin doesn’t display. The loop uses the_content. No filters etc or anything just plain the_content();

I updated the PHP version and then had to remove and re-install the plugin. It appears to be working properly now. Thanks and ps. I think your pricing model is great. The other backup solutions seemed to charge too much.

It looks like the plugin requires a more up to date version of PHP. I’m updating it now and I’ll try to run the instal again after.

p.s. I believe it also has to be added to the autopost section in the instagram.php file. Somewhere around line 603. Otherwise it will autopost everyone’s instagrams that you follow.

Ok Another update. Wp-Instaroll works really well. I also tweaked it a tad. It has only has two options for who to see instagram posts from. The user or the user and their friends. I tweaked the plugin to show my username and my wive’s. You could use this to filter out only users that have matching intagram names.

Here’s how I got it to work.

In the Ajax_panel.php file of the plugin. Look for the following if logic around line 79.

if (!($show_published == 'dont_show_published' && in_array($element->id, $published_ids)))

This is where it loops and displays all the instagram posts from users.

So we want to filter it to match only users who’s names match ethanhackett and colleenhackett. Immediately after the if statement I added another if statement like this

// Filter only author Ethan and Colleen
if ($element->user->username == "colleenhackett" || $element->user->username == "ethanhackett") {

Remember to close your if statement after the output.

That filtered out the array to only include those with usernames I wanted.

Ok well Instaroll might do the trick. https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wp-instaroll/

I set it up and it pulls in not just my instagram photos but those that I follow too. So you might be able to setup a instagram account and then follow all your authors. Then it will pull them in. It’s not a perfect solution but it might be a solution for now.

I’m looking for the same. So far it looks like all the apps I’ve tried limit the feed to only one user feed. I’d explore making one but supporting plugins takes quite a bit of time and work.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing your code. I know there have been a few users in the past that wanted to use custom post types. I haven’t built it into the core yet but maybe I can get your documentation to speed up that process.

Excellent. I’m glad that solved it for you.

I logged in yesterday and tried multiple things. I switch up the categories, tried various combinations of posts and categories. I checked to make sure the category IDs were correct. I switch it from single quotes to double and still nothing. I’m thinking that it might be a conflict with one of the plugins or perhaps the theme.

The next test I would do would be to disable all your plugins temporarily and see if that fixes it. If not switch to the default them for a minute and see if that fixes it. I realize this is a pain but we’ve covered the basic issues and it’s like searching for a needle in a haystack.

I do my best to support it but admittedly it’s a free plugin and I am a family man so my time is precious. I believe this is an issue covered in some of the past support threads where the bold tag was copied and pasted.