Displaying Network posts

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your comment! If you use WP Tiles in a php template, you can feed any array of posts to it, so also the posts generated by your network feed plugin.

With the 1.0 beta version, in a template you can use the_wp_tiles and pass it either: a query, a WP_Query object or an array of posts. So something like this should work:

$posts = network_get_posts(); // Replace this with your plugin's function to get an array of posts
the_wp_tiles( $posts, $opts );

$opts is an array of options, the same as for the shortcode.

Cheers,
Mike

Ps. are you using Post Indexer by WPMU? I was just looking at the code, and they have a class that mimics WP_Query. One could even make it so that you could pass their Network_Query into WP Tiles. That would even enable pagination. Let me know if you are thinking of going down this route!

Hi Mike,

Thanks so much for the reply. Yes, that is exactly the route I am going down. Your suggestion for implementing the Network query would be much appreciated!

Cheers,
Paul

Hi again,

To display network posts from the wpmudev plugins, you would used the ‘globalrecentposts’ short code. There is a constructor class created that looks like this:

class recentpostsshortcode {

	var $build = 1;

	var $db;

	function __construct() {

		global $wpdb;

		$this->db =& $wpdb;

		if($this->db->blogid == 1) {
			// Only add the feed for the main site
			add_action('init', array(&$this, 'initialise_recentpostsshortcode') );
		}

		add_shortcode( 'globalrecentposts', array( &$this, 'display_recent_posts_shortcode') );

	}

	function recentpostsshortcode() {
		$this->__construct();
	}

	function initialise_recentpostsshortcode() {
		// In case we need it in future :)
	}

What should I do to pass the network query into wp-tiles?

Hi Paul,

Cool, I have been itching to implement WP Tiles to aggregate MS posts for a while now, but haven’t had the occasion yet.

Last week I made WP Tiles work with object that look like WP_Query, and Network_Query should work. I haven’t had a chance to test yet, but when I do, I’ll revert back here. Let me know if you give it a whirl.

To get it to work, grab the latest version and use the the_wp_tiles( $query, $opts ) template with a network query.

For example:

// Somewhere in a template file
$query = new Network_Query( array(
    'posts_per_page' => 10
) );

$opts = array(
    'pagination' => 'ajax' // Just because it would be really
                           // cool if this worked out of the box :)
);

the_wp_tiles( $query, $opts );

Let me know if you have any luck with this! If this works, it might be a nice option to include as an add-on.

Cheers,
Mike

The errors I get are:
Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/plugins/wp-tiles/src/WPTiles/WPTiles.php on line 723

in several places
..content/plugins/wp-tiles/src/WPTiles/WPTiles.php on line 724
..content/plugins/wp-tiles/src/WPTiles/WPTiles.php on line 726
..content/plugins/wp-tiles/src/WPTiles/WPTiles.php on line 727
..content/plugins/wp-tiles/src/WPTiles/WPTiles.php on line 748
..content/plugins/wp-tiles/src/WPTiles/WPTiles.php on line 756
..content/plugins/wp-tiles/src/WPTiles/WPTiles.php on line 765
..content/plugins/wp-tiles/src/WPTiles/WPTiles.php on line 729
..content/plugins/wp-tiles/src/WPTiles/WPTiles.php on line 474
..content/plugins/wp-tiles/src/WPTiles/WPTiles.php on line 474
..content/plugins/wp-tiles/src/WPTiles/WPTiles.php on line 475
..content/plugins/wp-tiles/src/WPTiles/WPTiles.php on line 656
..content/plugins/wp-tiles/src/WPTiles/WPTiles.php on line 383
..content/plugins/wp-tiles/src/WPTiles/WPTiles.php on line 438
..content/plugins/wp-tiles/src/WPTiles/WPTiles.php on line 438

Hi Paul,

I haven’t tried using Post Indexer with WP Tiles yet myself, but I just verified that a Network_Query should definitely return an array of posts, so something is going wrong there. Can you check using var_dump or debugger what the contents of $posts is around line 185 if wp-tiles/src/WPTiles/WPTiles.php?

Cheers,
Mike