carosea

Yes I realise that but I thought that with Broadcast you specify the pages/posts that are linked for broadcasting purposes and if I can’t find out how to link the parent / child posts in the first place then how can I get Broadcast to share information across them? Sorry if I have got the wrong end of the stick and Broadcast won’t allow me to share a custom field between two ‘related’ posts?

Oh and when I tried putting 7 colors in as shortcodes it wouldn’t take more than 4?

Thanks for the quick reply .. and sorry to have bothered you I just discovered it myself.

Mike
I am getting a bit confused here – until the wp_query is run in my_custom_content.php the sytem won’t know which posts satisfy the ‘having a birthday today’ criteria. When a post does satisfy that criteria I need to get the actual birthdate (which I will store either have as a post tag or a custom field whichever is the easiest) and set that as an $opts and pass it through to the_wp_tiles for displaying the age on each tile.
My problem is not in the displaying of the age as such (I have done that with a fixed date) but in the retrieving and passing a variable (of the birthdate )at the time of running the wp_query into the function to calculate the age.
I have tried passing a variable into the function in the format YYYY-MM-DD’ but that fails and produces an age calculated based on 1970.

Mike
Firstly I would like to thank you for all the time you spend answering queations and supporting people like me! I do still need a bit more help though please.

I have set up the query to select those posts where the meta key birthday value is current day and call the-wp-tiles to display a grid of those with a birthday today. (code in my customised content.php is here).
`<?php $query = new WP_Query( array(
‘meta_key’ => ‘birthday’,
‘meta_value’ => date( ‘F d’ )
));
$opts = array(
‘byline_template’ => “%title%”,
‘byline_template_textonly’ => false,
‘byline_opacity’ => ‘0.6’,
‘byline_color’ => ‘#000000’,
‘byline_height’ => 30,
‘byline_height_auto’ => false,
‘text_color’ => false,
‘image_text_color’ => ‘#FFFF99’,
‘ image_size’ => ‘original’,
‘post_type’=>’post’,
‘orderby’=>’title’,
‘order’=>’ASC’,
‘posts_per_page’=>’auto’,
‘ pagination’ => none,
‘category’=>’join’,
‘extra_classes’=> array(my-custom-styled-tiles),
‘post_status’=>’publish’); ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div><!– .entry-content –>
<?php the_wp_tiles( $query, $opts); ?>
<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>`

On this particular page where I use the-wp-tiles query I am only selecting those whose birthday it is and would like to say on these bylines how old they are (or even just in a caption to go under the tile??). I don’t want it on any other page that the same tiles appear in various groupings but will just print the age variable on the text on some posts.
I store the birthdate as a post tag in the format ‘d-m-Y’ (eg 22-03-1996). I have tried to create a function in functions.php to calculate the age in years for example but seem to have problems getting it to read the tag ‘birthdate’ from the post as a variable:

function get_age( $birthdate )
{
        list($day, $month, $year) = explode( "-", $birthdate);

    // Find the differences
    $y_diff = date( "Y" ) - $year;
    $m_diff = date( "m" ) - $month;
    $d_diff = date( "d" ) - $day;

    // check if another year has been reached
    if ( $d_diff < 0 || $m_diff < 0 )
      $y_diff --;
    return $y_diff;

So firstly this function code to calculate the age isn’t working (something wrong with my code) it won’t seem to pick up my tag field variable $birthdate.
Secondly when I manage to get this bit of coding correct I need to pass this info to the-wp-tiles query so that for each post it returns (whose birthday it is today) it also returns the age and puts it onto the byline or as a tile caption.

Would appreciate any help you can offer.

I have renamed the post deleted all again and even tried removing another tile from the group and also ordered them all differently to see if it was the position, and added the image as a featured image to see if that worked but nothing it still appears as a tile without image.