Advanced Topics
Advanced Topics on working with Pods including caching, migrating, importing & exporting, programming complicated interfaces and working with tables outside of WordPress
Skill Level: Developer
Creating & Editing Pods
Create & Manage your Custom Content Types (Post Types, Taxonomy and Extended Objects) with Pods.
PodsCast #002: Data Structure Planning: !important;
Pods is one of the many great ways to use WordPress as a highly-customizable content management system. Success in these types of projects is often contingent on proper planning. On this episode, we discuss how to choose the right content types, and relationships between them. This is a live event, which will be held on …
PodsCast #001: Find’ing Your Way with Pods:Find()
We are happy to announce the PodsCast, a live, bi-monthly video podcast with Pods team members. Each week we will spend about an hour talking about a specific part of Pods and answering user questions. Users can submit their questions on twitter using the hashtag #podscast or the #podscast channel in our Slack. For our first episode …
Learning From The New Tutorials Section
An overview of creating the Tutorial Series Taxonomy Archives used in our prior version of the Pods website. Helpful for understanding how Taxonomy Archives work and how to customize them.
Partial Page Caching and Smart Template Parts with Pods
pods_view() can be used in a similar way to the WordPress function get_template_part(), but provides advanced options including the ability to utilize Partial Page Caching to cache the included output into the object cache or transients to improve performance. It can also pass data, such as all or part of your current $pods object to …
Step 3: Reorder Fields and See Them In Action
Reorder The Fields Before saving the Pod, we need to rearrange the order of the fields. They will have the same order in the profile editor as they do in the Pods editor, so we are going to want to put them in a logical order. Rearranging them is as simple as clicking on the …
Step 4: Using Author.php To Show Custom Fields
Now its time to display these fields in the front-end. In this step we will add to, or create the author.php template so it shows information about the author and their posts.
Step 5: Creating A List Of Users and Profile Page
Now it is time to create a user directory page on our page. This can be as simple as a list of names with links to author profile pages or a full fledged directory with all of the user’s information.
Step 6: Additional Options
Before finishing we will learn how to restrict access to the user directory and limit which users will be in the directory. We will also cover other methods for getting the values of fields that are better suited for when we only need one or two of the fields at a time.