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Custom Windows Pinned Tiles

by Nick Halsey

5.0
(4 ratings)

Look at the plugin banner image – which of these Windows Start Screen Tiles would you open, colorful live-updating ones in the top row or static, plain ones in the bottom row?

With Custom Windows Pinned Tiles 2, you can set up your site to display beautiful live-updating tiles in a matter of seconds. Just activate the plugin and pick a tile image and color on the settings page. Then, anyone who pins your site to their start screen with Windows 8.1/IE11 will see your site’s logo/image (at the size of their choosing), which will also live-update to display your latest 5 posts, with images if they’re available.

Live tiles feature your post titles and excerpts or images from the posts. Your website essentially becomes a Windows 8.1 App; a huge opportunity to engage your visitors and keep them coming back, with headlines from your content appearing directly on their start screen!

Screenshots

Admin settings screen, with live preview of tile in Windows 8 start screen context.

Admin settings screen, with live preview of tile in Windows 8 start screen context.

Plugin Details

Active Installs
30
Total Downloads
8,348
Version
2.1
Requires WP
3.5
Requires PHP
Tested Up To
4.1.42
Added
2013-02-12
Last Updated
2014-12-23 12:50am GMT

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