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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
So.. weekly meetings.. Sunday?
Does Sunday afternoon-ish (EST) work for (mostly) everyone?
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sc0ttkclark
Maybe weekends are tougher than we all think
For now, since we’re all on weird schedules let’s try to have everyone just post to the dev blog their individual ‘status reports’ with what they’re working on, where they’d like to help out, etc
Sound good?
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chris.pilko
@sc0tt: I’m willing to help out where I can. Is the code to the point where it’s functional enough to be installed on a dev environment?
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sc0ttkclark
Weekly Meetings.. let’s do this!
So as we put things into gear to get Pods 2.0 to an Alpha testing phase, it makes sense to have a weekly meeting again. Let’s set a specific day / time each week to meet up. It can be on the weekend or whenever. Worst-case, if you can’t make it then just pop into the dev blog and post some comments on the chat log.
Does Sunday work for (mostly) everyone?
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Mike Van Winkle
I can’t do next Sunday. Could do Friday or Saturday.
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sc0ttkclark
Fridays or Saturdays work for me in general, evenings on Friday and mid-day or evenings on Saturdays
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magi182
I’d be glad to participate in the alpha test if you need more eyes on it.
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chris.pilko
This upcoming weekend is nearly completely packed for me, but I’ll do my best to be there. Let me know when the alpha is ready to test. I’ll start running it through its paces.
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sc0ttkclark
Hope you can make it, if not just hit me up anytime after or check the dev blog for the chat log to catch up.
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sc0ttkclark
April Dev Meeting Notes
Meeting Date / Time: April 18th, 2011 at 8:00pm EST
Chat Log:
[04/18/2011 - 07:01:20 PM] <@sc0ttkclark> <meetup fever=”pods”>
[04/18/2011 - 07:01:20 PM] <wesbos> obj
[04/18/2011 - 07:01:46 PM] *** asdasDan has joined #podscms
[04/18/2011 - 07:02:05 PM] <wesbos> close your tags and lose the quotes, son. <meetup fever=pods />
[04/18/2011 - 07:02:13 PM] <@logikal16> so, this meeting will essentially be about how awesome sc0ttkclark is
[04/18/2011 - 07:02:18 PM] <@sc0ttkclark> http://dev.podscms.org/2011/04/18/april-meeting-notes/
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Mike Van Winkle
Damn, I missed it guys. Sorry about that.
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sc0ttkclark
April Development Meeting
The next development meeting will occur on April 18th, 2011 at 8:00pm EST
It will occur on IRC at irc.freenode.net in the channel #podscms
If you have no idea what IRC is or are unable to figure out how to get in, you can join in via the Web Chat interface at: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=podscms
Agenda
- Pods 2.0 progress report
- Pods 2.0 testing schedule / process
- Pods site redesign discussion
- Run through recent Dev Blog discussions and/or comments
- Feel free to suggest other topics, they can be 2.0 specific or not
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jchristopher
Tonight doesn’t work for me. Tossing out Thursday 4/14 at 7pm ET to start. I’m out of town Friday to Sunday.
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logikal16
Yo, how’s the evening of the 18th or 19th?
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hsatterwhite
+1 for 19th in the evening.
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jchristopher
I’m booked 7pm – 11pm on the 19th, so the 18th works for me (evening).
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sc0ttkclark
I’m good with the 18th, how about around 8pm EST? Or when works for you and your wifeys?
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logikal16
The 18th at 8pm EST sounds fine to me…
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sc0ttkclark
Oh, you guys we should also consider @tonyjansen in this as well, since he is roughly 5 hours ahead of EST (right?). Can you guys do any earlier? Maybe Tony can chime in when he gets online.
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jchristopher
I could do 8pm on the 18th or earlier if need be, sure.
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sc0ttkclark
Will wait for Tony to chime in on when he’d be okay with
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hsatterwhite
Any time next week preferably in the evening. I’ll be leaving for NYC this week to visit friends.
Topics: CLEditor/TinyMCE, PodsMigrate(), and plans for testing 2.0.
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sc0ttkclark
What did you want to discuss about CLEditor / TinyMCE / PodsMigrate()?
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hsatterwhite
CLEditor/TinyMCE: What CLEditor will bring and what will we lose since we’re not able to use TinyMCE. Opening discussions with WP Dev to possibly encourage the developer who maintains TinyMCE to build it out more, so it can implemented and maintained outside of WordPress Post/Page/CPT admin pages.
PodsMigrate(): Drupal -> PodsCMS migration. Saw this in Pivotal and was curious about how this will function and how close it will do a 1:1 migration.
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sc0ttkclark
Actually, TinyMCE is covered, I’ve already persuaded the guy in charge of TinyMCE for WP Core to spend some time redoing the integration as an API or at least to allow for more flexibility in implementations.
As for PodsMigrate, that’s a completely separate beast, it’ll flesh out further in 2.x but to begin we’re hoping to have some basic CCK to Pods migration.
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hsatterwhite
That’s awesome news to hear that TinyMCE is covered.
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sc0ttkclark
Yeah, that really sucked for a while but now it looks like it can be resolved in WP 3.3, and he’s going to provide me with some functions to use until then.
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Tony Jansen
8pm EST is 2am in the morning for me, which is too late on a weekday. Would it be an idea to do this in the afternoon EST on a weekend day?
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sc0ttkclark
I can do the weekend, what about everyone else? This weekend or next?
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jchristopher
I’m out of town this weekend so it’d have to be next (I think) but weekends are usually pretty busy on my end to be honest so the earlier we can nail down a time the better.
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sc0ttkclark
Maybe we should do a dev blog based chat? Since Tony won’t be available at the same time as all of us, the chat can span two days? We’d do the primary discussion on April 18th, 2011 at 8:00pm EST and then work our way through it, then Tony can chime in on any comments he wants to the very next day (or he can initiate some topics before our meeting). We can then respond to those the following day when we find the time. The format would be one post for the meetup, then top-level comments with the topics (first line of comment would be topic name), and replies to those top level comments for discussion. Maybe that’s overkill.. Tony did say he was cool with catching up through the chat notes and discussing then.. But figured I’d float the idea out in case it made sense.
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jchristopher
… an idea so crazy it just might work!
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sc0ttkclark
Figured it was worth a try, but only if people don’t think it’s not conducive of a live chat LOL, but it does have live updates.
Worst case, if we do go with the dev blog meetup, we can switch to IRC if things are too difficult.
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sc0ttkclark
Let’s keep it simple, IRC chat like usual and I’ll pass along the log via dev blog.
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Tony Jansen
And i’ll be fine with reading the irc logs in that case if anyone wants to send me a copy.
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sc0ttkclark
Let’s do that to keep it simple, too much effort to use P2.
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sc0ttkclark
December Meeting #1
Hey gang!
Well it’s meeting time again! This would be part 1 of 2, which would discuss our final approach for 2.0 – where part 2 would discuss the pre-release / beta testing results.
Date: Thursday, December 16th, 2010
Time: 9PM EST (8PM CST) Meeting moved to 9PM EST-
sc0ttkclark
Bueller? Everyone drinking too much egg nog?
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Jonathan Christopher
Are we thinking next week? If so Monday, Tuesday, and Friday aren’t any good on my end.
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sc0ttkclark
Next week if possible, I’ll be doing a ton of work this month on finishing up all my tasks and probably taking over everyone elses lol. How about Wed?
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chriscarvache
Is next Thursday a possibility?
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sc0ttkclark
Wed or Thursday could work for me.
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Jonathan Christopher
Thursday is definitely better because I just realized that I have something Wednesday evening as well. That said, Thursday of next week is pretty much the only thing that’ll work for me, else we might have to bump it to the following week.
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sc0ttkclark
Thursday it is then, the sooner the better – even if everyone can’t make it.
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chriscarvache
What time is this going to be???
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sc0ttkclark
anytime after 6pm CST works best for me.
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Jonathan Christopher
How about 7PM Central (8PM Eastern for me)?
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sc0ttkclark
Sounds good to me.
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sc0ttkclark
Another topic for this meeting is a quick bug fix release of Pods to 1.9.5 to fix a few issues that have been annoying:
1. tbl_row_id bug in save_pod_item causes slug generation to not reference the current item when generating a slug, thus adding a -1 to the end because it thinks the slug is already in use, flipping between -1 and no -1 at the end on subsequent saves in which a slug is regenerated.
2. Pod Pages template drop-down bug which shows templates in funky orders, making it difficult to quickly select the template you want (when using a custom theme with a lot of WP Page Templates).
3. There’s more, I’ll go find them, but I encourage you all to find any others you can too so we can knock out a few annoyances pre-2.0
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bjornet is discussing. 
chris.pilko and 
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.