How to build a site Windows 8.1 tile for your blog

Posted onAuthorAlex Verboon1 Comment

With just a few clicks and pasting 3 lines of code you can create a Windows 8.1 live tile for your blog. Here’s what you need to do.

Navigate to http://www.buildmypinnedsite.com/en and fill in the requested information.

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Copy the code.

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Next copy the code into your website. I added the code to the header.php of my WordPress site. If you use another blogging platform, just add to the other meta tags of your website.

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Now let’s try this out. Open the Internet Explorer and navigate to your website. Click on the Favorites button (1) and then on the Pin to Desktop button (2).

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And now we have the live tile on the desktop.

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One Reply to “How to build a site Windows 8.1 tile for your blog”

  1. .” Click on the Favorites button (1) and then on the Pin to Desktop button (2).”

    I think it should be (2) Pin to Start button?
    must be a small typo thou.

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