Powerful and flexible Plug-in

  • I used this for 2 different purposes and it works and looks great. First was for a mosaic, magazine-like home page showcasing blog articles. Second, was a gallery of downloads in which the the tiles pointed to a page with each download. Easier customization of what the tiles point to would be a nice addition but with some workarounds you can customize what the tiles are pointing to.

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  • Hi there,

    I’m looking to build out a gallery of downloads as well, and I’m wondering how you built it out this way. Were you able to point to pages that are outside of WordPress?

    Thank you!
    Jamie

    Thread Starter sstanczak

    (@sstanczak)

    Hi,

    The first step is to create a post for each download. Add the downloadable file to the post by using the “add media” button. I then assigned a category of”download” to these posts and (optional) excluded that category from my blog loop so it wouldn’t show up in my regular blog feed. Once you have all of your download posts, then create a new page and just pass the category argument (as well as any other options) you like in the shortcode like so:

    [wp-tiles category=”download”]

    This will create a WP-tile grid with one tile for each download. Every new download category post will show in the future as well. Surely other ways of doing it but this worked for me.

    Oh, and to add I didn’t try to link to pages outside of wordpress so not sure if that is possible.

    Best,
    Stephen

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