Add tiles with only text in my grid

Hi @mariannesnel,

There’s a few ways to get tiles to display without an image.

By default, WP Tiles will look for an image inside the post, if you have not set a featured image for that post.

If all your posts have a featured image, you can disable the ‘looking into posts for an image’ by setting image_source to featured_only in your shortcode (or set the option in the admin panel!):

[wp-tiles image_source=featured_only]

Then, if any of your posts do not have a featured image, WP Tiles will show a text-only tile, without background image.

However, if the posts you want to display without image do have a featured image, you need to apply some coding to get WP Tiles to ignore the image. If you are familiar with PHP, continue reading.

WP Tiles contains the filter pre_wp_tiles_image to override the image-finding behaviour. If you filter this to be an empty string, WP Tiles will treat the post as a text-only tile.

For example, if you want to use a custom field ‘show_no_image’ for it, you could do something like this:

add_filter( 'pre_wp_tiles_image', function( $ret, $post ) {
    if ( get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'show_no_image', true ) === 'yes' ) {
        $ret = '';
    }

    return $ret;
}, 10, 2 );

Good luck!

Cheers,
Mike

Hi

This solution only shows the title, I would love to know how to get the text tile to show the text of the post, or the excerpt. But I don’t want the text/excerpt in the byline overlay when there is an image.

It would be very useful to be able to mix up the image tiles with some large typographic tiles.

Thanks for a great plugin!

Hi @holby!

You cat set a different byline for text-only tiles by setting a custom template for byline_template_textonly. So, to show nothing on image tiles, but the excerpt on text-only tiles, you can do something like this:

[wp-tiles hide_title=true byline_template='' byline_template_textonly='<h3>%title%</h3><span class="tile-content">%excerpt%</span>']

— Mike

Hi Mike.
i used your plugin and it worked great. but i need some of my tiles to be added as text only image.
i dont use posts query gallery,i only used attached images gallery in post.
how can i add text only tile beside other image tiles…