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
New Comparisons added to our Documentation
We’ve spent a great deal of time documenting the differences between Content Types and based on our user feedback — we’ve compiled some very helpful comparisons for you to reference.
- Compare Content Types
- Compare Meta vs Table Storage
- Compare WP_Query, WP_*_Query, and Pods Unified Theming
- Compare Functionality in Pods 1.x to Pods 2.0
If you think of anything else you’d like compared, just let us know!
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sc0ttkclark
We switched hosts! Smooth sailing over at WPEngine
After months of dealing with a few interesting issues that came up from having our own server (VPS), we recently switched over to WPEngine.
We are so excited now that we can all focus purely on code! Thanks to the WPEngine crew for helping us get started, we’re really looking forward to the ease of mind that their service can now bring us.
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sc0ttkclark
Welcome to our new Documenters!
I just gave access to a group of users and developers to our new documentation area, they also now have access to post on this development blog to keep everyone updated. They now have access to add/edit docs for 1.x and 2.0 documentation. If you think you’d like to help out, just reach out and let us know.
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sc0ttkclark
New 2012 Site Launched
New site is launched, it’s been a long time coming and it’s awesome that it’s done. There’s still so much that we’d like to do to make it better so it will continue to be an evolution.
Thanks to Tim Sheehan and Ben Favre for their help with the site, could not have done it without them! Main site design by Iron to Iron, tweaked further by Tim Sheehan.
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Tom Hermans
Great job guys! Congratz
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davidangel
Looks and feels great. Thanks to all involved!
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Ken Wiesner
Site looks great guys! Excellent work!
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sc0ttkclark
The good news is we’re launching our new site on June 25th! The bad news? Nope, none of that! More good news also arrives on June 25th, perhaps earlier, but we’ve got a lot planned for June so keep an eye out! Hold tight, and don’t get lost in the sea of commits!
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sc0ttkclark
Meeting with the team this week to discuss our next steps, should have a final set-in-stone launch date for both the new website and Pods 2.0 — so excited!
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magi182
Woot woot!
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sc0ttkclark
Woo, thanks everyone for your feedback on Pods 2.0 Alpha so far! Just wanted to let you all know that Chris Pilko @chris-pilko (yeah, the guy who’s been a ninja in the Pods Q&A area for a while now) is now officially part of the development cycle for Pods 2.0 and the new site. In the coming weeks / months, he’ll be helping to provide the additional development support that I’ve been looking for over the past few months with little success. Watch for more updates coming next week and throughout February.
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sc0ttkclark
Fixed a jQuery error on the Q&A area, jQuery wasn’t included in header on the site because Pods no longer enqueues it for every page load (yay) and loads it as needed (if it’s not already queued, or already printed out).
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sc0ttkclark
Dev site was temporarily unavailable due to a P2 update made which broke our P2 Child Theme template file. All is well now though!
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sc0ttkclark
Over the past few weeks, we’ve had a new site designed, built out, and now we’re going through some remaining functionality, ui tweaks, and content writing. Good stuff!
Just wanted to shout out the people behind the magic (so far):
- Design – Kevin Richardson from http://irontoiron.com/
- Initial Frontend – @jchristopher also from http://irontoiron.com/
- Additional Frontend – @chriscarvache
- Backend – @sc0ttkclark (me)
Of course, thank you to everyone who’s been testing lately, we’re progressing and getting closer. The plan is to get the new site up-to-par with Pods 2.0 so we can better support the plugin, the community, and grow better with our upcoming new user-base (arriving with 2.0).
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.