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 1.10: New Features, Bug Fixes, and Pods UI now included!
Release Notes
- Added: Full revamped UI for Content Management via Pods UI (you no longer need two separate plugins – Pods and Pods UI)
- Added: TinyMCE is now the default visual editor in WP Admin pages (nicEdit remains default for frontend forms), you can still use the newly updated TinyMCE for Pods package to customize this
- Improved: Added many new filters across functions.php for advanced customization via other plugins
- Improved: Admin Notices are now shown if you aren’t running the minimum version of WordPress, PHP, and/or MySQL
- Improved: Updated version handling of PODS_VERSION
- Bugfix: Updated Pod :: get_dropdown_values to work off of $params object instead of the old ${$key} = $value
- Bugfix: Updated Pod :: findRecords to check if ‘select’ from $params is empty (and only to set it if it’s not empty)
- Bugfix: Updated Pod :: findRecords to cast (int) on certain values set via $params
- Bugfix: Updated Pod :: findRecords to INNER JOIN the wp_pod_tbl_podname table prior to other joins (now you can reference t.field_name in your custom ‘join’ from $params)
- Bugfix: Updated Pod :: getFilters to use the field label (if set), falling back on name (used to only be based on name)
- Bugfix: publicForm now sets columns explicitly to those that exist instead of passing null if fields not set
- Bugfix: PodAPI :: __construct now uses PodAPI :: load_pod to setup the pod and it’s fields instead of doing the calls itself
- Bugfix: PodAPI :: load_pod simplified
- Bugfix: PodInit :: init now checks if WP_DEBUG is on in addition to if headers_sent to set session_start()
- Bugfix: Moved Package Manager to below Setup and above Manage Content to keep Manage Content next to the Add podname sub-menu items
- Bugfix: Pods >> Setup >> Pods tab updated so when you add/remove Pods it will adjust the related to drop-down in field settings (previously it didn’t show it until you refreshed the page)
- Bugfix: Pods >> Setup >> Pods tab under Field settings section updated to show/hide relevant fields if a pick (or not)
- Bugfix: Pods >> Setup >> Pods tab to reset the Pod settings fields correctly when switching to different Pods or adding / removing them
- Bugfix: Pods >> Setup >> Helpers tab updated so when you add/remove Helpers it will adjust the pre/post save/drop helpers drop-downs in the Pods tab (previously it didn’t show it until you refreshed the page)
- Bugfix: Pods >> Setup >> Helpers tab updated so when you add Helpers it will set the helper_type in parentheses correctly (previously it didn’t show it until you refreshed the page)
- Bugfix: misc.php updated to work off of $params object instead of the old ${$key} = $value
- Bugfix: Updated TinyMCE $wp_editor (developed by @azaozz) to hide WP 3.2 fullscreen buttons and only show native TinyMCE fullscreen button
- Bugfix: Various PHP notice fixes and escape/sanitization on output across Pods
- Reminder: 1.9.6 Security Update information can be found at: http://dev.podscms.org/2011/06/22/pods-1-9-6-security-update-new-features-bug-fixes/
- Reminder: Pods 2.0 and How You Can Help – http://dev.podscms.org/2011/06/16/pods-2-0-and-how-you-can-help/
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sc0ttkclark
Andrew Ozz came through and sent over the latest revision of the new API for TinyMCE which will find it’s way into WP core hopefully in WP 3.3 — It’s not implemented in the brand new PodsFormUI class just committed.
@wesbos and @jchristopher are collaborating on the new fields, but so far I’ve got a few basic ones in there. The idea is you can extend PodsFormUI to add your own set of fields if you’d like, overwrite existing ones, or just hook into filters / actions to do it the boring old procedural way. Of course, there’s also always input helpers
So I’m working next on finishing up the new PodsForm / PodsFormUI / PodsData classes for integration with PodsUI so we’ll have a working backend again for the 2.0 branch!
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sc0ttkclark
Was just chatting with Andrew Ozz about progress on the revised TinyMCE API for WP that he’s working on — he said he’s about half done and is going to put some more time in on it this weekend. If you want to show your support for seeing TinyMCE in Pods 2.0, now would be the time to donate to show you appreciate the hard work we’re doing!
http://dev.podscms.org/donate-to-the-pods-cms-framework-project/
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sc0ttkclark
Waiting to get the latest from Andrew, will post the latest update when I’ve got it.
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sc0ttkclark
TinyMCE – Revisited
It seems to be a big mess trying to maintain a separate codebase to get around the limits of the_editor.
Has anyone seen someone specifically using the_editor (or a clone, showing the media bar at top left, the html / visual tabs at top right, and editor below with custom TinyMCE buttons added by other plugins) multiple times on the same page either outside the WP post/page/cpt editor or outside of WP-Admin?
I’m hoping someone has figured out a more elegant solution than to rewrite the_editor and surrounding JS files which handle the media bar / html+visual tabs / custom tinymce buttons / editor.
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sc0ttkclark
In talks with the guy in charge of the TinyMCE stuff within WP core, going to see if he can do the bug fixes and either release under his TinyMCE Advanced plugin or as a core patch in 3.2+. Will update when I get more info..
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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.