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.
Tutorial Type: Using Pods In Themes
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 …
Use Pods Image Field As Thumbnail
Learn how to use Pods image fields as the thumbnail for a post in this tutorial by Markus Stefanko. This post covers using pods_image to automatically resize images.
Pods CPTs Versus ACTs – coding for them
This tutorial, from Web Design For Idiots, explains the difference between custom post types and advanced content types. It also covers the difference between coding for each of them.
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.