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 …
Get Values From A Relationship Field
In this quick tutorial we will show you how to get values from a Pods’ relationship field, or a bi-directional relationship field between two different post types. There are many possible types of relationship fields, but one of the most common and powerful uses for them is to relate one type of post type to …
Step 1: Create A Users Pod
Pods allows us to extend the standard post types (post, pages) as well as media, users and comments with custom fields. To begin we will create a new Pod to extend users.
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.