Learn Pods Basics From OSTraining

In this eleven part series, Steve Burge on OSTraining.com provides a simple introduction to Pods. He covers creating custom post types in Pods, adding fields to the Pods, using Pods Templates and shortcodes to display the Pods.

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.

Choosing Pods Advanced Content Types and Pods Pages

Pods Advanced Content Types (or ACT) are a special content type that stores its data outside of the regular WordPress post and meta tables. There are specific cases where this is important functionality to have, but for most applications, custom post types are a better choice than using an ACT. There are a few situations …

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Introduction to Pods: WordPress as a CMS

This tutorial by Steve Burge on OSTraining.com provides a simple, easy to follow introduction to creating custom post types in Pods and using Pods Templates and short codes to display them. As an example it shows how to create a “Books” custom post type, and a template to output its custom fields–without any php coding.