Compare Content Types

Overview

With Pods, you can choose from a variety of content types to create and extend in WordPress. It’s important to know what your choices are, and to make the best decision based on your needs.

Pods lets you create new Post Types and Taxonomies, or extend any existing content type in WordPress including Post Types, Taxonomies, Media, Users, and Comments. Pods may not support every feature WP builds in by default, but that doesn’t stop you from baking it in based on your needs. With Advanced Pods, you get a base content type and add the fields and features you want without the features you don’t need.

Even if you aren’t going to use Pods, this comparison is worth a look as it may be the first full comparison between the them all.

Compare WordPress Content Types

This comparison shows the different types of content in WordPress itself. It includes two additional columns: Advanced Content Types for our table-based Pods and Extended Pods for any content type you choose to extend with Pods.

FEATURE	POST TYPES	TAXONOMY	MEDIA	USERS	COMMENTS	ADVANCED CONTENT TYPES	EXTENDED PODS
Custom Fields	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
WYSIWYG	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅
Excerpts	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	Post Types
Featured Image	✅	❌	There are image sizes for media, not a separate featured image	❌	❌	❌	Post Types
Relationships	Posts, Media, and Terms	Terms (parent / child) and Posts (related on the Post’s side	Posts (and Terms but requires code to enable)	Posts (related on the post side)	Posts	Any item from any content type	Any item from any content type
Formats	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	Post Types
Status Workflow	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌	Post Types and Comments
Visibility	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	Post Types
Scheduling	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	Post Types
Trash	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌	Post Types and Comments
Preview	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	Post Types
Comments	✅	❌	❌	❌	N/A	❌	Post Types
Revisions	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	Post Types
Archives	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	Post Types, Taxonomies, and Users
Search	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	Post Types
Trackbacks	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	Post Types
Top Level Admin Menu	✅	Taxonomies only show up in the associated Post Type’s menu	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Add to Navigation Menus	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	Post Types and Taxonomies
Galleries	✅	❌	N/A	❌	❌	❌	Post Types
Table-based Storage	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	Optional
Ability to create a separate Custom Admin UI	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅
Example Scenarios	Houses, Bake Sales, Events	Colors, Ingredients, Regions	Galleries	Authors, Profiles, Lawyers	Reviews, Ratings	Advanced Pods are like a blank slate, you add to them what you want them to do

Meta vs. Table Storage

In most cases, you don’t really need to think about the storage type you choose when creating a Pod. But if you’re curious as to what the differences are, this comparison is for you. Note: We’re going to be re-running the tests below against latest version of MySQL soon, let us know if you’d like …

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Compare WordPress Content Types

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Other Helpful Documentation on Creating & Editing Pods

Add New Pods [Pods Admin]

Creating a Custom Post Type [CPT]

Creating a Custom Settings Page

Creating a Custom Taxonomy

Extend Existing Post Types, Taxonomies or WP Objects

Meta vs. Table Storage