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Settings: Reserved List of Names

There are certain names you cannot use for Pod, Group, or Field names in Pods because they are reserved in WordPress or Pods for other uses.

There are certain reserved keywords that we do not allow using for names of Pods, Groups, or Fields because they are reserved in WordPress or Pods for other uses.

WordPress reserved keywords

These are reserved in WordPress and using them may cause unexpected problems on your site.

  • attachment
  • attachment_id
  • author
  • author_name
  • calendar
  • cat
  • category
  • category__and
  • category__in
  • category__not_in
  • category_name
  • comments_per_page
  • comments_popup
  • custom
  • customize_messenger_channel
  • customized
  • cpage
  • day
  • debug
  • embed
  • error
  • exact
  • feed
  • hour
  • link_category
  • m
  • minute
  • monthnum
  • more
  • name
  • nav_menu
  • nonce
  • nopaging
  • offset
  • order
  • orderby
  • p
  • page
  • page_id
  • paged
  • pagename
  • pb
  • perm
  • post
  • post__in
  • post__not_in
  • post_format
  • post_mime_type
  • post_status
  • post_tag
  • post_thumbnail
  • post_thumbnail_url
  • post_type
  • posts
  • posts_per_archive_page
  • posts_per_page
  • preview
  • robots
  • s
  • search
  • second
  • sentence
  • showposts
  • static
  • subpost
  • subpost_id
  • tag
  • tag__and
  • tag__in
  • tag__not_in
  • tag_id
  • tag_slug__and
  • tag_slug__in
  • taxonomy
  • tb
  • term
  • terms
  • theme
  • title
  • type
  • w
  • withcomments
  • withoutcomments
  • year

Pods reserved keywords

These are reserved in Pods and we recommend against using them.

  • id
  • ID

Customizing the reserved keywords

You can filter the pods_reserved_keywords filter and add additional keywords you would like to restrict by.

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