Build Anything with Pods! Hands-on Workshop using the Pods Framework
Learn how to build multiple useful things with Pods using Custom Settings Pages, Pods Templates, Pods Shortcodes and Widgets.
Context: Learning
Grow Beyond Posts & Pages: Introduction to Pods Framework
An overview of Pods from concept to execution from one of Jim’s WordPress Meetups.
Planning Your Solution with Pods
What do you mean by Solution as opposed to my Data Structure? Before you dig too deeply into what kind of structure you might need, you need to think about what Content you’re going to be managing on your Web Application and how that content is going to be used by your Users and your …
How do I decide between a Custom Taxonomy or a Custom Post Type?
If your item (taxonomy or CPT) can stand alone by itself as a page of detail, it should be a CPT. If it can only exist as a group of things, it’s a Custom Taxonomy. For instance, I don’t feel Authors is a Custom Taxonomy of Books. They’re both Custom Post Types and related to …
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What are Custom Post Types?
Learn about Custom Post Types in WordPress and how Pods makes them easier to work with.
What are Custom Taxonomies?
Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification. The original meaning of the term was in biology, in which it described the practice of classifying organisms with similar properties into groups. However, the use of the terms is much more widespread now and is very much part of the WordPress terminology. WordPress Taxonomy In WordPress, …
What are Custom Fields?
Custom Fields are metaboxes that are used to input metadata that is related to your post. When you add a new post in WordPress, you’ll see these draggable boxes which are used for to store information about your post. Examples are author and excerpt. Another is custom fields. If you can’t see custom fields, click …
What are Extended Post Types?
Extending another Object with Pods gives you access to add fields to WordPress Objects (Users, Media, Posts & Pages) or Post Types or Taxonomies created by other plugins.
What are Advanced Content Types?
Background In order to understand Advanced Content Types, it helps to understand a little bit about how WordPress works. WordPress comprises PHP andMySQL. MySQL is the database that stores all of your website’s information, and PHP is the code allows for interaction between the web browser and the database. PHP grabs information from the database …