Tips & Techniques

A repository for simple tips and techniques that don’t fit into the other major documentation categories and help you do things you might not have thought about before with Pods.

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Display a Random Post

You handle getting a random post by using the orderby element in a find() or in a Shortcode. If you set the orderby element to RAND() it will put the items in a random order, so then if you set the limit to 1, it will only show one random item, or post.

Displaying Custom Post Types with Default Categories & Tags

Need to make your Custom Post Types show up in the Categories & Tags archives in WordPress? This will fix that.

Grouping Admin Menu Items for Post Types

This is very easy with post types generated by Pods. If you create a Custom Post Type with Pods, you can add this to Parent Menu ID: “edit.php?post_type=top_level_post_type”   Referenced from this article on stackexchange