Fix some tiles in specific position

Hi @jkgartzia,

Cool idea, I’m very curious to see the result of this!

For the old (pre-1.0) version, I published a code-snippet to do exactly this: https://gist.github.com/mgmartel/4454318

You can see how it works on https://createdbydanielle.com

However, when using WP Tiles 1.0 this doesn’t work any more. Now, you should modify the WP_Query object directly and render the tiles in the PHP template. I still have to make a new gist for WP Tiles 1.0, but here is the basic outline:

// Query all the posts (your normal WP Tiles query goes here)
$query = new WP_Query(array(
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'posts_per_page' => 18,
    'paged' => 1
) );

// Query the pages that have a static position
$pages = get_posts( array(
    'meta_key' => 'tile-position',
    'post_type' => 'page',
    'posts_per_page' => 20
) );

// Loop over the pages, check their position and put them there in the posts array
foreach ( $pages as $page ) {

    $position = get_post_meta( $page->ID, 'tile-position', true );

    if ( empty ( $position ) || ! is_numeric ( $position ) )
        continue;

    // Magic happens here:
    array_splice ( $query->posts, $position - 1, 0, array ( $page ) );
}

// WP Tiles arguments
$args = array();

// Display the tiles
the_wp_tiles( $query, $args );

Let me know how it works out!

Cheers,
Mike

Please can you tell me how this should work?
I have wordpresss 4.1 installed and the latest version of wp_tiles.
I want to fix some tiles in certain positions and fill them with all kinds of content.

I do not understand the above code. Can you explain in detail?

Thanx Mwalima

Achieve run the above code,
but I can not take me the $args
How can i put the args?
Placed them in this way:
// WP Tiles arguments $args = array( 'grids' => News );

Btu dosen′t work.
The full code is this:

<?php //if ( function_exists ( 'the_wp_tiles' ) ) the_wp_tiles( ); 										$query = new WP_Query(array(											'post_type' => 'post',											'posts_per_page' => 13,											'paged' => 1										) );
										// Query the pages that have a static position										$pages = get_posts( array(											'meta_key' => 'tile-position',											'post_type' => 'page',											'posts_per_page' => 20
										) );
										// Loop over the pages, check their position and put them there in the posts array
										foreach ( $pages as $page ) {											$position = get_post_meta( $page->ID, 'tile-position', true );											if ( empty ( $position ) || ! is_numeric ( $position ) )												continue;
											// Magic happens here:											array_splice ( $query->posts, $position - 1, 0, array ( $page ) );										}
										// WP Tiles arguments										$args = array(											'grids' => News										);
										// Display the tiles										the_wp_tiles( $query, $args );
							?>

And the demo: https://infomedia24.esy.es/
“About 1” and “Blog 4” are pages, the others are posts.

The same as above, but better lecture.

<?php
$query = new WP_Query(array(
'post_type' => 'post',
'posts_per_page' => 13,
'paged' => 1
) );

// Query the pages that have a static position
$pages = get_posts( array(
'meta_key' => 'tile-position',
'post_type' => 'page',
'posts_per_page' => 20
) );

// Loop over the pages, check their position and put them there in the posts array
foreach ( $pages as $page ) {
$position = get_post_meta( $page->ID, 'tile-position', true );

if ( empty ( $position ) || ! is_numeric ( $position ) )
continue;

// Magic happens here:
array_splice ( $query->posts, $position - 1, 0, array ( $page ) );
}

// WP Tiles arguments
$args = array(
'grids' => News
);
// Display the tiles
the_wp_tiles( $query, $args );
?>

Hi @3551,

The $args contains all WP Tiles arguments. They are generally the same as the shortcode, just marked up as a PHP array. See the documentation on the template tags here.

In your snippet, there is a syntax error in the arguments – you need to put quotes around the grid name:

// WP Tiles arguments
$args = array(
    'grids' => News
);

Cheers,
Mike

Hi Mike Martel,

Please can you tell me how this should work?
I want to paste php code with wp_tiles on my site
I have wordpresss 4.1 installed and the latest version of wp_tiles.
I want to have some tiles like this one grid:
AACB
DDEB
and I want fill them with specified content (specified category of posts).
But I can’t edit the code above.
How should it be written (the code) ?
Please can you help me?

Thanx
Cinek