How can I manually edit each WP tile to display custom picture and byline

Hi Carpenter,

Thanks for your comment.

There is currently no simple way of showing custom content on tiles using the shortcode. This would be cool feature to add in the future though.

There are two ways to still achieve what you want without custom coding:

1. Create a gallery for all the images you want to show, and set the custom content in the caption, including the hyperlink. Then, you set a custom byline template
(as described here) to display the caption on the tile.

2. Create a custom post type that is not public for WP Tiles (using CPT UI for example). You could then display posts from this post type in your WP Tiles block.

Both solutions require some creative thinking and are not an out-of-the-box solution, but they do the job!

Let me know how it works out!

Cheers,
Mike

Hello Mike,

I am interested to try (2) to create a custom post type that is not public.

1) Did you mean “not public” as in the posts from this custom post type will not appear in the normal ordinary WordPress blog stream?

2) Would you please provide the shortcode syntax to display the posts from this custom post type in the WP Tile array.

Thank you so much!

Hi @trt,

Yes, you can see here what it means for a post type to be public (look for the public argument).

You can display posts from a specific post type in WP Tiles using the post_type argument:

[wp-tiles post_type=customtype]

Cheers,
Mike