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
Been destroying Pods and PodsAPI classes for the past week, lots of progress!
Finished sweeping mysql_* and DB structure changes across Pods and PodsAPI classes, all that’s left is the publicForm reworking out of the two.
Next is Admin UI / Form UI work. Well, back to the salt mines — ta ta!
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sc0ttkclark
Check SVN for latest changes. Doing as much backwards compatibility as possible, still need to double check PodsAPI that it’s backwards compatible during testing, may have missed some $params here and there which I need to go back through and double check.
Lots of functions deprecated in the Pods class, check the bottom portion for all of them. They point to their new functions and handle whatever changes need to happen to their variables for backwards compatibility with the new functions.
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sc0ttkclark
By SVN, I meant the Pods’ Google SVN at http://code.google.com/p/wp-pods/
Also, new Admin UI / Form UI work is primarily making what @jchristopher already did functional and making some tweaks.
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hsatterwhite
This is awesome! And for those of you who are following these be sure to check out the diff feature on SVN, so you can really see what Scott is doing “under the hood” as Pods 2.0 continues to progress.
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sc0ttkclark
Right, I’ll also be doing a final walkthrough once we’re all done with a big list of features / bug fixes, in addition to any ‘deprecated’ functionality or changes in parameters.
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sc0ttkclark
Pods UI 0.7.0
Pods UI just got an unexpected update. I hadn’t planned on putting any other releases out and focusing solely on 2.0 but I thought we should give the community something to chew on in the mean time. I’d like to gather a couple bugs and perhaps do a 1.9.5 release of Pods too.
Here’s what the Pods UI 0.7.0 release contained:
- ADDED: For Management screens, Searching now searches across all non-pick fields by default (you can enable pick field search by setting search_across_picks=true in the Pods UI options, or disable searching across fields by setting search_across=false)
- ADDED: Session-based Persistence for Searching and Filtering (by specific Management panel)
- ADDED: User-based Persistence for Sorting and Show Per Page
- ADDED: Searching / Filtering / Pagination now available for the Reorder panel of Pods UI
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tommynz
I have just upgraded to this release and now my re-ordering does not work. Is there something we need to do to make it work again?
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sc0ttkclark
About to be fixed with a quick patch – look for 0.7.1 within the next hour.
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Mike Van Winkle
Working on a kickin’ subscription site using Pods. This is exactly the kind of project Pods is great for. Can you imagine trying to produce a “payments” report using only CPT? Not only do you need to look up results by quantities (i.e. show me all payments over a certain amount and under a certain amount and after a certain day). But then on the output side, you need to format the numbers. Add them. Subtract them. Multiply. Figure Tax. And then think about all the wasted space in the wp_post table. If you registered a post type for payments, you’d end up using maybe three fields out of 23 and then adding 5 or 6 custom fields. How in the world does that make sense?
Sure you could do it with INNER JOIN and CAST() … but why?
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sc0ttkclark
Great example why I use Pods so heavily! CPT has it’s place too, just not always the best way.
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Rhys L. Bartels-Waller
Pods 2.0/WP 3.1 is going to make the platform such a killer system. Not sure why CPT have been touted as a PodsCMS killer. They complement each other really well
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bjornet is discussing. 
tommynz are 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.