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 Site Revamp – Design Ideas
So as a few of you know already, we’re in the process of revamping our site. We’ve got the new site IA completed but now we’re in the design stage.
Here’s a few quick compositions some of our community have put together. Feel free to reply with your likes / dislikes and hopefully we can take the good from each of them and put them into the final site design.
@jchristopher – http://d.pr/1fQX
@thinkfast – http://www.limelight-digital.com.au/pods/draftv1.jpg
@tonyjansen – http://i54.tinypic.com/o5p02d.jpg
I think they each have something I like about them, but the one I like most is how @jchristopher wireframed the layout of information and menus. I think @tonyjansen has an updated version of his work somewhere, I’m sure he can post it when he has a moment. And @thinkfast came out of left field (way to show initiative by taking an hour or so to put your ideas down) with his, which has some cool color usage. All three of these guys have a TON of experience behind them and I personally think that we’re on the right track to having an awesome looking site to go along with our upcoming 2.0 release!
Recently @jchristopher and Kevin, his partner in crime over at irontoiron.com – have found themselves a quick extra few hours to spare which should be invaluable to us in our process as they provide some more visual ideas.
We appreciate everyone’s input so far on what they think the new site could look like, it’s all been great! Also, if you think you can do better than any of these, feel free to post your own ideas. In the end, we might have a design that’s a fusion between one or more of these, but your input goes a long way to helping Pods be the best it can be.
Remember, we’re a community and we’re driven by the time each of you spend on making Pods better. Thanks for your time so far, looking forward to seeing where the revamp ends up
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chris.pilko
+1 for @thinkfast. That’s a beauty of a design. I do like some of the aspects of @jchristopher‘s work, for instance the footer block and horizontal showcase.
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gr0b1
+1 for @jchristopher ‘s wireframe. @thinkfast ‘s would be a nice redesign of what we have now but i don’t think that is the point. Loving the typography and the color usage tho.
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sc0ttkclark
@jchristopher and his design partner Kevin are moving forward with their vision, they just sent me what they’ve got so far. I think this is exactly what we’re after, it’s amazing! We’ll share more details once we go 2.0 alpha soon.
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sc0ttkclark
Started work on new site revamp (backend), and @jchristopher is heading up the work on the design / frontend soon too.
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sc0ttkclark
Finished setting up all the new Pods, next is putting together the basic template / helpers / forms for them all and then we’ll get to styling and HTML tweaks afterwards.
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sc0ttkclark
Setup all the pod pages, gotta fill them with code now of course
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sc0ttkclark
Hooked up detail page urls for each of the pods now and setup Pod Page precode for most pod pages.
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sc0ttkclark
Not sure why, but I get this sinking feeling that I REALLY REALLY want to have the site redesigned (with our colors) to look like the current wordpress.org in terms of the Site Header, pretty content formatting, and footer. Not looking to use bbPress, the Plugin/Theme directory, or Documentation system — those would all be something we’ll approach the “Pods way” as a great case study for what you can do with Pods.
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sc0ttkclark
Maybe someone somewhere can consider this a call to arms — while we bust a move on Pods 2.0, maybe you can help by contributing some ideas, time, work or whatever you can to making our site better for everyone. This is an open source project, and we believe that anyone anywhere is free to contribute.
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sc0ttkclark
(and you’d get credit for your work, exactly how can be discussed)
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bjornet is discussing. 
gr0b1, and 
chris.pilko 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.