Tutorials

Collections of all of our Tutorials, How To's, Step by Step Guides and Case Studies

Learn Pods Basics From OSTraining

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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.

Using The Conductor Layout Editor To Display Pods Custom Post Types & Fields

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Conductor is a plugin that makes it easy to easy to create custom layouts and display content without code. This video shows how to combine Conductor and Pods for a super fast and efficient way to build content-rich sites–in a fraction of the time.

Using Pods Framework to add Schema.org Data to WordPress Widgets

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A simple, real world example, curtesy of Mendel Kurland, showing how to use Pods to add schema.org markup to event listings. Link: https://ifyouwillit.com/integrating-schema-data-with-pods-framework/

Using The Pods Extend Starter Plugin

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Tutorial by Josh Pollock on creating plugins for Pods.

Learning From The New Tutorials Section

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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.

How To Create A Pods Page

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This simple tutorial covers the basics of how to create a Pods Page and associate it with a WordPress page template. Link has been removed as this tutorial is no longer live; we will not be including it any longer in our documentation. Pods Pages …

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Setting Pods Custom Menu Icons

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The WordPress back-end saw a major overhaul in WordPress 3.8 that gave a much needed, modern makeover to the admin interface. One of the key components of the new re-design is the inclusion of the Dashicons font created by Automattic UI designer, Mel Choyce. As a …

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Rewrite Options For Pods Custom Post Types and Taxonomies

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Learn how URL rewrite rules settings in Pods to customize the URLs for your custom post types and custom taxonomies in order to fit your needs.

Choosing Pods Advanced Content Types and Pods Pages

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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 …

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Introduction to Pods: WordPress as a CMS

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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.