PhilipHastings

What was the conclusion to this issue? I’m looking for the same solution but noticed the code needed to be changed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Having the same issue. Followed the three steps – 1. No errors. 2. Plug-ins had no impact. 3. Theme was not an issue.

Pricing options.

I am working with a non-profit that has 15+ offerings.

Basically returned to PayPal and used their button generator – copied the code and added my own CSS.

Pricing options.

Working with a non-profit that has 15+ different offerings.

I actually pulled together a few of my developer friends over the weekend to give me their assessment of why the excerpt stopped working and how to add custom post types to the tiles. There was over 20 years of PHP development experience huddled around a breakfast table for two and a half hours. Here’s what we discovered.

Not only did we not come up with a viable reason for the excerpt to simply stop working, or default to excerpt (we turned off plug-ins, reinstalled WP-Tiles, etc etc) – we were unable to even manipulate the existing content – such as post title and post date by commenting out any lines of code where ‘title’ or ‘date’ appeared.

The consensus was great plug-in but falls short in the understanding that WP is a content-oriented platform designed to simplify the end-users experience of managing that content. This plug-in adds a great deal of functionality to WP but seems to ignore what is at the core of WordPress. Add to that that a group of developers couldn’t wrap their heads around what’s happening in the code in an effort to simplify the end-user experience.

I’ve actually pitched using this plug-in at my day job (HP) for one of our internal sites but I’m thinking I’ll have to ask one of developers to build something similar that allows end-users to add content – or at the very least – for developers to add content.

So – I was able to display the excerpt successfully and despite the fact that it’s an awkward workflow, it was working great – until it stopped working. I toggled the excerpt display on and off several times, even uninstalled and reinstalled the plug-in but the plug-in no longer displays the excerpt.

If only there was an easy way to add custom fields to the byline this plug-in would be amazing.

Great idea – and perhaps I’m doing something wrong – but that didn’t work at all.

I’m gonna have to talk the client off the roof and ask that they settle for this. Maybe we can address adding more content at a later time when there’s some flexibility when handling content.

Maybe I’m old school – I like the idea of adding content without having to touch the code.

yeah – the example was a bust, I’m sure I was missing something. I used the excerpt as a plan b but I need to pull some of that content from custom fields – so it’s a big compromise.

it would be great if there was a way to add additional bylines through the settings – similar to the way that layouts are being added.

Check the box to activate an additional line, give that line a name, enter your content.

It’d be perfect if it supported custom post types too.

I’m actually working on another project that doesn’t have such a tight deadline and I’d like to use wp-tiles for that as well. If I come up with something – do you mind if I share that with you?

Thanks for the reply.

Actually, I’m just trying to add more content to the byline and display the date and artist and when the user hovers over the tile it displays the venue and ticket price.

I like you’re example – I’ve have a whack at it and let you know how it works out.

Keep up the great work!

Obviously it’s a problem and the latency in support is a deal breaker – switching to another plug-in now and giving it two stars.

In the future, I would like to see more context when describing the installation process – not everyone using your plug-in is a developer. Consider how you would guide your grandmother through the process.

Also – don’t blame the user when they request support. ‘Sorry you are having problems’ is an indication that you didn’t provide enough information for the lay person to use your plug-in and it sounds really condescending.