What’s in a Name? How should I name my Pods and Fields?

It’s actually a naming restriction from WordPress. Within your site, you can’t have names for Custom Post Types that conflict with either existing WordPress objects (user, post, page, media, etc) or existing Post Types. Within each post type, you can have duplicate field names across post types, because key/value pair in Post Meta is actually …

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How do I change the URL Structure for Individual Posts to Match Taxonomy Terms?

By default WordPress will do the following for your custom post types: post-type/post-type-slug/ For your Custom Taxonomy it will map it to: taxonomy-type/taxonomy-term/ You can customize these settings in Pods using the Rewrite, Custom Rewrite Slug and Rewrite with Front options under Advanced Options when editing your Pod. These correlate to the same parameter settings for rewrite from …

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Using Pods to Build WebDesign.com

An inside look at how Pods is used to build Webdesign.com, now iThemes training, from the professor himself, Benjamin Bradley. Additional Videos in the Series: WordPress with Pods, no PHP Needed Pods & Gravity Forms Cache All the Things! Plan Before You Build: Data Architecture Planning Tweaks, Optimizations & Workflow — Oh My! Introduction to the Pods …

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