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 http://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

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