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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sc0ttkclark
Ideas for changes in our new site to help support the foundation regarding fees
We’re not charging for the plugin of course, but there are certain sections on our site that makes sense to add certain fees for. Here are a few sections I was thinking about:
- Find a Developer (developer directory) – Charging a one-time fee of $xx to be listed on this page (waived if you’ve previously donated more than the one-time fee)
- Jobs Directory – Charging a one-time fee of $x to list your job in the new public Jobs directory
That’s all I’ve got so far, does anyone have any other ideas on where it might make sense to charge a fee for? The fees here would basically be like donations designed to help support the Pods Foundation for continued development of the Pods plugin and help fund support efforts.
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jchristopher
I’ve always been a fan of paid (priority or otherwise) support. The new site will lend itself to being much more helpful, but people are people and often times questions easily answered in the docs will be asked. Some sort of premium support (e.g. rapid response time) would be nice, but very tough to plan. Something even harder to plan would be a Pods specific http://www.wpquestions.com/ — a neat idea in and of itself. Just talking out loud.
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sc0ttkclark
I’m not sure if premium support makes the most sense at this point. Perhaps once 2.0 is out and we get too much inflow of support requests we’ll be in a better place for that to work. We’ll see how things go, but premium support could work, we just have to make sure that it can support both the premium support itself as well as put back time into the free support we give.
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scottnath
I would say that once 2.0 is out you definitely want to have a “premium” support option. Enterprise Level is a good buzzy way to phrase it. In the end it just needs to be quick answers and willing to add features if needed. All at a cost of course.
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sc0ttkclark
Good idea Scott, and not just because we share the same first name.
Not just support, but also to add new features!
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peroyomas
But even if there’s a paid support, we can still contact you for free? Or post in the forum?
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sc0ttkclark
Right, we will always have free support in the forum, it’s just as it’s been – community participation for help and then we come in for the bigger issues or bugs when we’re not coding. Enterprise Level support would be for quick response times and to help support the Pods Foundation.
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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.