How much does Pods cost?
Pods is free and will remain free, but check out how much effort it’s taken to get it to where it is today!
Tagged: comp RSS Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
-
sc0ttkclark
-
sc0ttkclark
Pods 2.0 has arrived!
Background
The Pods Framework has been around since late 2008. Planning, design, development, and testing started in 2010 for Pods 2.0 leading to an Alpha release on January 2nd, 2012. Beta was released on August 12th, 2012. Now Pods 2.0 has finally arrived, as of September 21st, 2012!
After our soft launch, we’ve been working on bug fixes for the past few weeks to ensure maximum stability and backwards compatibility before going full force with our 2.0 announcement. That point has been reached and we’re ready for the flood of new users that awaits, including our awesome Pods 1.x users who are anxious to upgrade.
Have at it, and most of all — Enjoy the freedom of developing any type of content with any type of field that you can think of for WordPress!
Bug Reports / Feature Requests
Please report bugs and suggest features in our GitHub Issues area. We’ve got an awesome feature line up for Pods 2.1 that is already in progress, we’ll announce our 2.1 testing program in the next month. Pods 2.1 is scheduled to be released alongside WordPress 3.5 on December 5th, 2012.
Big Thanks to our Sponsors!
We have to really thank Automattic and Matt Mullenweg for all they’ve done to help us, we honestly could not have finished Pods 2.0 and taken it to the next level without their support.
RD2 provided some awesome UI design work for our new 2.0 upgrade screens.
MarkNet Group provided extra help when we needed it to keep the project going over the past two years, major kudos!
What’s new?
Below is a feature list that goes over what 2.0 offers, we hope you enjoy it as much as we have while we’ve used it on our own projects.
- Slick new interface, fully revamped to make managing your Pods easy and stress-free
- Large performance enhancements using transients and object caching (reducing queries per page load in both dashboard and site to the lowest possible number, sometimes that’s ZERO)
- New Upgrade wizard screens designed by RD2 will help you upgrade from previous versions and report any potential known issues beforeit actually upgrades your site
- We’ve partnered with Automattic to offer 1 free month of VaultPress service to users upgrading from Pods 1.x, you will see the offer in the upgrade screens.
- We’ve also partnered with iThemes to offer 25% off of a BackupBuddy license to users upgrading from Pods 1.x, you will see the offer in the upgrade screens.
- Add New Pod wizard guides you through creating or extending content types with custom fields
- Create New Content Types
- Custom Post Types
- Custom Taxonomies
- Advanced Content Types (each type lives in it’s own table, outside of the WP object architecture)
- Extend Existing Content Types
- Post Types (Posts, Pages, Existing Custom Post Types)
- Taxonomies (Categories, Tags, Existing Custom Taxonomies)
- Media
- Users
- Comments
- Create New Content Types
- Choose to store your data using meta-based storage (default) or custom table-based storage
- New Field Editor and Field Types
- New Field Type options built in (no more input helpers for most common input types!)
- Date / Time – Date, Time, or both
- Number – Plain Number or Currency
- Text – Plain Text, Website, Phone, E-mail, or Password
- Paragraph Text – Plain Paragraph, WYSIWYG (TinyMCE or CLEditor, or add your own), or Code (Syntax Highlighting)
- Color Picker – Choose colors, because colors are great (Using the default WP color picker, Farbtastic in 3.4)
- Yes / No – You can’t really go wrong with a checkbox, but we’ve added a few charms to make it stand out
- File / Image / Video – Upload new media or select from existing ones with our Media Library integration, or use a simple uploader, your choice
- Relationships – Relate any item, to any item of any WP object type or another Pod, now with improved Bidirectional relationship support
- New Field Type options built in (no more input helpers for most common input types!)
- New grouping fields API on the Add/Edit forms for Post Types, Taxonomies, Media, Users, and Comments (We’re adding a management UI for this coming in 2.1)
- New Shortcode popup integration with TinyMCE editor (now provide one-off templates within the shortcode itself)
- New Widgets (and provide one-off templates within the widget itself)
- New Form UI front and back
- New Attachments option available for File Uploads allows you to click “Attach” and select media items from the normal built-in WP Media Library pop-up
- New Componentsallow additional functionality to be enabled but not loaded if you don’t want/need them
- Pod Templates
- Pod Pages
- Pod Helpers
- Roles and Capabilities
- Add / Edit Roles (Administrator, Editor, etc..)
- Add / Edit Capabilities for each Role
- Markdown Syntax for Paragraph Text fields
- Migrate: Import from Custom Post Type UI
- Import Custom Post Types and Taxonomies created by the Custom Post Type UI plugin
- Import them all, or choose a few
- Optionally cleanup the Custom Post Type UI options when done, removing the imported objects from it’s control
- Basic WPML Integration and confirmed Polylang compatibility
- Fully Localized interface and error messages! All of our text strings in the plugin now run through the i18n functions. We don’t have any translations yet, but we’re looking at getting GlotPress setup for translators to start getting in.
- Requires at least WordPress 3.4 and is tested against WordPress 3.4 and 3.5 releases
Not sure about Pods 2.0 yet? Screenshot time!
-
hsatterwhite
Holy Cow in a plugin Scott! I’ve been looking at it since Thursday afternoon and it’s absolutely wonderful. The UI is great, intuitive, and very forgiving when you’re making mistakes. Love seeing how far you’ve come with Pods as it is by far one of the most powerful plugins/frameworks/extendomatic-in-a-box things to to ever happen to WordPress.
I’m a big fan of how you re-vamped “Helpers”. Using it as a custom post type with the built-in WordPress revisions feature is spot on smart. This is honestly the first time I’ve ever looked at Pods 2.0 in any of its forms. The really cool thing to me is that you created “Helpers” in a way that provides flexibility and history. Using Code Mirror for syntax highlighting, storing it as a custom post type, and utilizing WordPress’ built-in revisions function takes “Helpers” light years beyond what it was in the 1.x.x releases. As a long time user of Pods I’m completely overjoyed with Pods 2.0!
Again, thanks for all that you’ve contributed to the WordPress community.
-
sc0ttkclark
It’s messages like these that make what I do worth it. That’s exactly what I set out to do for Pods 2.0, so I’m very glad that was successful!
-
-
jchristopher
[Pods 2.0 UI] Dashboard
I realize there was a thread started in the Q&A section of the site, but let’s get a more organized conversation going here. I’ve spent some time thinking about the Pods Dashboard and come up with something along the lines of:
Pods 2.0 Dashboard (jchristopher)
My thought process here was to provide, in a way, a nice hub for both novice and veterans users of Pods. It can also act as a central information area for all things going on with Pods, much like the WordPress dashboard itself.
I put in some time on this only to realize that some other people have put in even more time, so perhaps those other contributors could post their ideas and comps to date and we can start hashing out a more detailed direction in which to go. Looking forward to it!
-
sc0ttkclark
I’d like to see Kyle’s latest comps posted here too, he had some good ideas in terms of a dashboard that’s more site-driven vs external feeds / links. Dashboard things I liked from his comps were counts of Pods / Content / Helpers / Pages / etc..
Let’s get on this pretty hardcore this month, we need to get frontend to implement in 2.0 core ASAP as the PodAdmin class.
-
jchristopher
I remember seeing some great stuff in the Q&A thread, so yes, hopefully Kyle is able to post his ideas soon and we can start nailing stuff down on a “for sure need to keep” list.
-
thecorkboard
Hey, how much of this stuff do you think could be ported into a help/support admin page?
-
sc0ttkclark
It would be great to have a ‘Support’ Dashboard like this on our actual site!
-
-
-
-
chriscarvache
Cool layout – nice and clean. I like how this view offers a high level view of what’s going on in the community. Elaborating on that idea, why not have more information on what’s going on with the actual Pods on the site?
This way users can see more of an overview on their content rather than what’s going on only with the software. Maybe users will have the ability to see recently added content on the dashboard. User would also have the ability to select which Pod would appear on the dashboard too. This way certain smaller Pods like states, ingredients, and colors don’t have to appear on the dashboard and only site specific Pods like Venues, Recipes, and Widgets can be displayed.
Just my 2 cents…
-
thecorkboard
I like how you’ve fleshed that out. It does remove the quick content creation buttons that I had in my mockup and the analytics I was thinking about. But maybe a Dashboard isn’t meant to be a content creation area?
What I think might help with this is splitting up the UI projects into different areas and assigning some folks to work on those parts so we don’t overlap until we need to.
Also, I use Keynote to do mockups – including the Pods stuff. If anyone wants this file just reply here with your e-mail and I’ll shoot you a link.
-
Harley
I’d like the link. txsoccerstar@gmail.com
-
-
davidangel
Cool. The chat link could autofill the username field with wordpress user’s name. It’s the little things…
-
Harley
This is exactly what I was thinking. Good idea. I side with @chriscarvache about having some of the user’s content displayed on the overview page as well. Let’s make it easy to add and remove things on there so the user can add/remove them at will.
-
bjornet is discussing. 
bjornet 8:23 pm on September 5, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I really appreciate you for showing this, this example helps me as developer to set a decent pricetag on my work and of cause understand the tremendous amount of work you guys have put into Pods.