Hi,
You could accomplish this with WP-Tiles. Each “tile” could be a link to a page showing whatever the download is: ebook, video, pdf, etc. This is an example of the shortcode you’ll need (obviously change page ids to whatever yours are):
[wp-tiles post_type=page id=75,77,79]
You’ll need to read through the documentation here to understand but its pretty straightforward:
http://wp-tiles.com/docs/shortcode/
This can even display very similar hover animations with title, description.
Very powerful and flexible plug-in.
Good Luck
Thank you man! That looks wonderful, and I’m definitely going to use it for some of the “grids and tiles” I want for the website we’re designing.
I wasn’t very clear about what I wanted tough. what I’m trying to accomplish here is a LIBRARY-PAGE where users can “TYPE-SEARCH” for the documents of their interest. There will be webinars, ebooks, white papers, excel sheets, etc.. all falling – perhaps – into different categories
I guess this could work sort of like you showed me If I create a page with a search field, and then have results presenting in that “tiled” fashion + info.
SO maybe my question is a bit bigger now! ahah How should I approach this?
should the files be some sort of post? instead of being put into the library?
Can this make them searchable?
should I put them somewhere else online (G-drive for example) and pull them in?
Thank for your help man! I’m loving the wordpress possibilities, but to fully customize and do what you want, either you know some code or you have to be lucky to find the right plug-in!! Gladly I can count on other people’s experience!! THANK YOU!
A.
The hubpost library was set up so that the thumbnails linked to pages (or posts). Then on those pages you could download the media. I was imagining it that way. You could also set up the tiles to look very simple with spacing between them if you increase the padding and set grids=”plain”. That would like almost identical to the hubspot library page. If you want to have two categories, you set up two separate grids and call for only the page/post ids you want included in that grid.
Now, I don’t know much about custom search options but it sounds like with some digging that should be possible. Lastly, don’t be intimidated by coding. It is well worth a few days to at least learning the basics at codecademy or other free online tutorials. Like you said, you will need to customize eventually.
andren, did you ever find a solution for this? It’s what I’m looking for too.
