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!
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sc0ttkclark
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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!
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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.
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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!
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sc0ttkclark
Pods Framework Gets Backed by …a Few Big Names
Code is poetry
Developing solutions
Now the game has changedWe’ve got some very big news.
We would first like to give a big thank you for the generosity and help from our Kickstarter backers, the donations from our users, and time from our contributors! Without you, the innovations in this plugin would not have been possible. Now, our new sponsors will also help to ensure we can continue making awesome features and fine tune everything we do for Pods 2.0 and beyond.
Keeping a free plugin of this magnitude alive is not for the faint of heart. We’ve managed to keep it going for the past few years on a shoestring budget and enormous contributor effort. It’s been an amazing road, despite the bumps, and I’m so proud that we’ve made it to where we are today.
Stick around below the jump for more, but without further ado, we’re excited to announce the first three official sponsors of the Pods Framework!
That’s right! Automattic, as our new Premiere Sponsor, has decided to back Pods
and provide us with the funding we needed to get to the next level!
MarkNet Group has continued to provide us with much needed funding
and has even donated their development time to help our continued growth.
RD2 has also generously joined our cause!
Look for very awesome stuff coming from RD2 in the future!
I can’t thank Automattic and Matt enough for backing Pods, it really hits home on a very personal level for me. MarkNet Group and RD2 are devoted to building awesome projects using WordPress, which is really important for us. Now our team can focus on developing the features you’ve been craving. Speaking of team.. check out the right sidebar of the dev blog to see a revamped list of our contributors!
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mbrinson
Wow, that’s big time!
That’s super awesome news Scott. I’m so glad your tenacity and perseverance has paid off for you and for the PODS community. You are one dedicated guy! -
davidangel
HECK YES. This is great news!
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Dan Farrow
Fantastic and well deserved news Scott!
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carlosfaria
Congratulations!!
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Perry
When you said the announcement would be big I wondered if it might be related to some sort of official support from WordPress, heaven knows you earned it, but thought that may be far fetched!
Excellent news and vindication for the grief you must have gone through while working towards Pods 2.0.
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sc0ttkclark
Thanks for support gang, can’t wait to see all of this good news put to good use as we can finally step our game up and get this done on a real schedule!
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sc0ttkclark
Working on an awesome announcement that means better funding for future development of Pods.. more soon!
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lynn
Congratulations Scott! Wow, this is cool. Question for you… if we want to give, is it better directly or on Kickstarter? Which gives better PR and momentum vs are there costs with Kickstarter?
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sc0ttkclark
Definitely do it on Kickstarter right now, it’s going until next Friday and the more people fund, the more people see that it’s being funded. People see that it’s worth it to other people and then choose to fund it themselves. It’ll really help our cause. Yeah there’s a few fees involved, but believe me this is no where near as much as we’ve ever raised the entire time we’ve accepted donations on their own!
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lynn
Cool, thanks. I’m in awe of both your Pods baby and in Kickstarter. Both making life easier and better!
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Masino Sinaga
Scott, you should receive my $ 50 via Kickstarter if they provide PayPal payment method. It’s so weird that site don’t provide that payment method. Or, Am I wrong that I don’t have a credit card for now? The fact is I only have PayPal.
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sc0ttkclark
Currently they only accept payments through Amazon Payments. I think technically you could setup an Amazon Payments account and pay through that.
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Masino Sinaga
I did it. I have signed my account up in Kickstarter and in Amazon Payments too. Unfortunately, they only provide the payment method via Credit Card only, but I don’t have Credit Card for now. They don’t provide the PayPal payment method as I only have it for now. Do you have any idea how can I give you this $ 50 via Kickstarter using my PayPal?
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sc0ttkclark
Hmm, good question. Do you know anyone who is considering pledging too? If so, you could give them that and have them add $50 to their pledge, once they pledge, have them e-mail me at contact [at] podscms(dot) org to let me know that their pledge includes your $50 so i can make sure you get your $50 reward
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Masino Sinaga
Unfortunately, I don’t know anyone you mentioned. So, if anyone who has given the pledging via Kickstarter read this message, please contact me by email masino.sinaga [at] gmail [dot] com, or via my YM: masino_sinaga. Here is my scenario: First, please send my $ 50 via my Kickstarter account (I will send my Kickstarter account detail so you can login from my account to send my pledging). Secondly, I will send my $ 50 from my PayPal to your PayPal. Please, please, please… I do want to give my pledging to Scott. Thanks.
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sc0ttkclark
I don’t know if two pledgers can use the same funding source, you might have to send the $50 to them and they just pledge their amount + your $50 at the same time.
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Masino Sinaga
Scott, actually, I just want to lend my Kickstarter account to anyone who has the Credit Card and I need for help to send my $ 50 using his/her Credit Card. Afterwards, I will send my $ 50 from my PayPal to his/her PayPal account. Does it make sense for you?
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sc0ttkclark
I’ve contacted Kickstarter to find out for sure, will let you know what we can come up with for you.
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Masino Sinaga
Thanks Scott. Looking forward to hearing good news from you.
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sc0ttkclark
They said it’s not against their policy to allow donations directly, so if you want you can donate via PayPal to contact (at) podscms[dot] org and I’ll make sure you get marked for the $50 pledge reward
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Masino Sinaga
Done. You got my $ 50 via PayPal. Thanks, Scott.
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sc0ttkclark
Got it, thanks! I’ll make sure you get credit in our official donors page plus your Kickstarter reward.
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Masino Sinaga
Yay, 67 hours left.
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sc0ttkclark
$50 from $4k, totally awesome!
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chriscarvache
Why I Donate to the Pods Foundation
Ever since Pods has come out, I’ve been hooked. About 98% of the sites I create are powered by WordPress and almost all of those sites utilize the Pods Framework. It is one of the few plugins for the WordPress platform that truly expands on its functionality and pushes the envelope in many directions. It offers premium functionality and is 100% free (cost is free and I can freely use the code). Even better, it will always be free as the developers have pledged to keep it free by setting up the Pods Foundation. While Pods doesn’t accomplish anything I couldn’t and have already coded myself, it dramatically speeds up my development and standardizes the process. That being said, I am able to offer my clients competitive rates on services and offer them a stable, secure, and robust product. In the end everyone wins; I make a reasonable profit, and the client gets a reasonable price.
How we can all help
Since I gain a significant amount of work from using Pods, I have opted to donate a portion of my revenue towards the project. This not only shows support for the idea and the community but furthers the development of the project. While this concept is widely understood, it is rarely put into practice. A donation is always a smart idea; it decreases our annual (or however you choose to file) net income and overall gives us less taxes to pay. Either way, donating to the project pushes the features we wish to have to the forefront of development. This in turn helps us create and produce faster, ultimately increasing our hourly wages and our quality of work.
I cannot see this being anything other than a win-win. While we end up making a bit less per project by making donations, we gain so much more in the long run; more features, more power and faster developer turn around time. Not to mention that we help out a great project fueled by developers who have spent countless hours developing and supporting Pods for free – which we all benefit from.
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sc0ttkclark
Love having you around! Thanks for all your support and especially for helping bring some cool donation-funded features into Pods 1.12
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sc0ttkclark
Wow, @chriscarvache is doing some awesome things for Pods, he’s going to post about it soon – watch for it!
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.