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.

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Planning Your Custom Content Types

If you’re regularly building different types of websites, you may reach a point when the default WordPress Content Types are no longer sufficient for your projects. That’s when you need to get started using Custom Content Types on your website. Pods gives you the functionality to build Content Types, but you need to put thought and …

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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 …

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What are Advanced Content Types?

ContentsBackgroundEnter Advanced Content TypesWhen to Use 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 …

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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 …

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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?

Taxonomies are used to Group and Filter content across multiple content types.

What is a Custom Settings Page?

What is Pods?

ContentsWordPress Content Types and FieldsHow Pods Helps YouHow it Works WordPress Content Types and Fields WordPress is all about creating content. It comes bundled with Posts and Pages, which you can organise using the Categories and Tags taxonomies. It’s also got post meta fields which you can use to append data to your content – …

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